Club Sign-Ups

[BigMike]

If you would like to have Marlin Crawler host a Board for your Club or Group, please let me know!

These Groups can be Public, Member Group Based, Private, or Password Protected.

You are welcome to have club meetings or announcements here and to announce new club events and gatherings, all from the forum you have come to enjoy, Marlin Crawler.

[79coyotefrg]

well, im working on the Arkansas chapter of the TTORA , but Shannon is going to "host"  the forum, so it links to the other national forum,   



i do need a website though

[BigMike]

People have expressed interest in have an area for their club here on the forum.

So this is more or less for smaller clubs who either do not have a website and/or forum already set up.

Also I think this is good for the Fresno 4WD club because it will tie local board members in with local events (since this forum is hosted in Fresno).

[79coyotefrg]

[BigMike]

Before I will add a New Club, I would like to have permission from the owner or president of said club.

Thankyou in advance,
BigMike

[blackdiamond]

 

[RCKRUNR]

Hey Mike this is Jimmy Campbell. Ive been talking with marlin and Dave about restarting Toys-4-Fun. Both have given me great support. It would be great if you could set up something here for me to try and get the ball rolling.  Thanks for any help you can give.
Jimmy

[Hottrod81]

This is a great idea Bigmike.

[RokCrawlinToy]

Hey Mike,
Can you add L.A. County TrailCrew T.L.C.A. to the Cali. club section.
Thanks
Ron

[BigMike]

Hey Mike this is Jimmy Campbell. Ive been talking with marlin and Dave about restarting Toys-4-Fun. Both have given me great support. It would be great if you could set up something here for me to try and get the ball rolling.  Thanks for any help you can give.
Jimmy

As soon as the club is considered an official club, I will add it to the forum.

BigMike

[rickibrat2]

looking for clubs in the salem or porland are of oregon


also for those interested in the sand and quad stuff in oregon here is a link to our web site but we only have a few into 4x4 trail riding right now

http://sandlakeduners.com/forum/

[superfly]

hey we are starting a club "mountain yoats" we are looking for new members and would love to have our club listed to help it grow, for more info on our club visit www.mountainyoats.com thanks

[UNBREAKABLE]

Add www.NCTTORA.com to the list if you would please...we wheel quite a bit and are always looking for new members from NC and upstate SC

[dino1967]

we are a new club in the Tennessee ,North Carolina ,Virginia ,Kentucky area
www.4x4xtreme.net
thanks a bunch for such a great site

[GA Runner]

r there any clubs in or aroung georgia?

[oscar]

Hey guys.  My name is Oscar.  I'm an active member of Club Zopilotos 4x4      www.zopilotos4x4.com    From Tijuana Baja Cal Mexico and am interested in signing my club on the forum.

[krawler76]

whats up oscar it's jaime..any time you guys want to come back to the HAMMERS let me know.

[dizzydevil]

don't know if it helps but i wheeled with oscar at fun in the desert last month and they are a cool bunch of guys. Any time your back here be great to hit the trails with you again

[hotwrench4hire]

Hay Mike, how about adding us,we are a well established club in oklahoma city  http://www.trailchasers.com/

[Northern Colorado 4X4]

Thank's that would be great!! let me know what you need from me !

[64-Hurricane]

How about one from Minnesota?  We have some great trails here in MN and a great club called the Minnesota ToyX4's.  http://www.mntoyx4.com/

http://www.mntoyx4.com/forums/

[Zs Confederate Toy]

Add us too? Colorado based club called the Trail Junkies, we are pretty small as of now. We use a facebook group page to coordinate and keep in touch. http://www.facebook.com/#!/home.php?sk=group_143321922399380&ap=1. The logo is my avatar pic

[Jokeass-Wheelers]

Well bigmike I have started a group up here in paradise ca and it would be nice if someone would help publish us Well I started it and I decided to call us the 11 Jokeass-Wheelers 7 thanks

[Dirty LJ]

Hello BigMike,

I run Infectious Off-Road can we have our club listed here?

[BigMike]

Sorry guys, been a while since I checked in here. I will go through the replies and get some clubs set up shortly

[94YOTAGIRL1026]

I really want to get a "club or mini club" going here in Vermont. We have a lot of people interested and have little groups that go out wheelin together. So why not become a branch of another club or start our own??

[BigMike]

You guys should do it! Clubs are the best way to get like minded people together and to meet new friends who share your similar interest.

Set some date and location, like every 3rd Tuesday night at Burlington Burgers , post it up Facebook or pass out fliers, then see who shows up! Do that for a few months, plan a few very simple camping trips or even plan for a McDonalds parking lot 4X4 meet on a Sunday afternoon, and WHAM, new club has begun!

BigMike

[Rocksurfer]

I'll check with my club at the next meeting, we do already have a bulletin board and a facebook page but I see better exposure here for potential membership and participation. Since I am the current online admin I could just authorize it but we are a voting membership so I'll throw it at them.
The one thing though is uploads, on our current bb we can just about upload any file including pdf's which our monthly news letter is posted on. Here's both sites you won't see the private club sections on the bb but that's where the pdf's are kept, they have personal info so we don't publish them to the public without the redaction's of that info which is published on facebook. We don't use the bb as much as we used to but our fb page gets good activity from our members and anyone that joins us. We lost our original bb a few years ago when my nephew sold his interest in Netnevada which hosted the board, but it was rebuilt at the current location which I just did a major overhaul of with new graphics and layouts. I think I did a pretty good job. Still traffic there is low but I do get a significant amount of traffic on fb. Mostly from the trip reports and videos I've been putting on there. Still a high traffic site like here would be awesome. Might get a little work heavy for you unless you are going to let people start messing around in the admin control panel.

http://spinnin4s.50.forumer.com/index.php

https://www.facebook.com/Spinnin4s?ref=hl

[94YOTAGIRL1026]

thats a good way to start it i do suppose! we have some sweet places we go wheelin and sometimes, the more the merrier!! we have a group of like 10 trucks that go out with us so why not create a name and a logo??? any ideas for a small wheelin club name??? We're in Washington, Vt so its a small place... we have people from Barre, Orange and East Montpelier that wheel with us....

[BigMike]

on our current bb we can just about upload any file

Keep in mind this could be a potential security risk. Mainstream forum software allows any file extensions to be configured (as I think you know) by the admin. This forum can accept files with the extension .bigmike but this filetype hasn't been implemented by the IEEE Computer Society yet.

I checked out your forum, it looks really good man Have you tried taking fliers to all of your local 4x4 shops? Most off road businesses welcome this sort of thing as it builds the community and is good for business. Its an easy method of getting your club's name out to strangers you'd otherwise not reach. Keep the flyer simple, have a catchy image, and then have a QR barcode that links right to your forum-

we have some sweet places we go wheelin and sometimes, the more the merrier!! we have a group of like 10 trucks that go out with us

Sounds like you guys have a nice group of people! Larger clubs that I've been a part of have Club By Laws (list of basic rules on what it means to become a member and how to stay a member each year). Some clubs have membership fees (like $20-$30/year), some are free/donation based, and all of them I've experienced have at least 1 annual event where they do some sort of community involved fund raiser. Shirt and hat sales are also a way to generate income. I think for a starter club, the only need of club money would be if you did like a work party - such as repair some sections of a popular trail - then the club will offer a BBQ lunch or dinner and the club $ would pay for the dinner. But its entirely up to you guys on what you plan to do with the club!

One of our local clubs helps a sort-of half-way house / foster care center by taking a bunch of underprivileged kids up wheeling for a day trip. Most of our clubs also encourage members to decorate their rigs and enter them as a sort of "Holiday Float" for an annual Christmas Parade. It's great, we'll just drop our Marlin Crawlers into double low and let the trucks idle past all the onlookers. It's a lot of fun. Another option if available in your area is that our forest service needs help maintaining campsites, so clubs adopt campsites and work with the forest service to maintain, clean-up, and report campsite vandalism.

Basically, I believe that anyone can get friends together for a wheeling trip, but when you organize a club and do these sort of community events, it lets people use their talents and their trucks for something constructive. I am a member of three clubs and Marlin is a member of I believe eight clubs. If I could sum up my experiences, being part of something larger than myself is what draws me to clubs.

any ideas for a small wheelin club name?

Orange County Wheelers
Kingsland 4X4
Washington Trail BOMbers (BOM for Barre, Orange, Montpelier)
The Dirty WOMB (Washington/Orange/Montpelier/Barre)

ok I'll stop