Racing tonight was badass.

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Edited Date/Time 3/7/2013 5:14pm
Randomly ended up racing against gibby tonight at the local rc track. Hes a good driver. Lots of good battling going on tonight too.
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mx757 2/28/2013 12:18am
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What were you guys running? Shortcourse?
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Motodave15 2/28/2013 12:20am
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mx757 wrote:
What were you guys running? Shortcourse?
yup.

I was running my sc10brs, He had a regular shortcourse i believe.
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jeffro503 2/28/2013 8:48am
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Well I'll be damned. I didn't know either you or Steve drove RC.....pretty cool. I myself just got back into it a few weeks ago. We have a descent little 1/8th scale track about 20min from my hose and a bunch of my old MX racing buddies got into driving about a year ago. We have a possible 2 more bigger 1/8th scale tracks that are in planning stages right now for spring and summer. I picked up two ( almost new ) Mugen MBX-6 Eco's and am going all electric as of right now , but may put together a nitro buggy if the new tracks allow it. I still have 7-8 motors left , starting box and all the good stuff.....just need a place to run them. Weekend before last I had my first drive back in about 7 - 8yrs......man what a blast!

Dave and Steve.....have either of you guys tried the RC track at Glen Helen yet? I heard it was pretty large and fit 1/8th scale pretty well.

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Motodave15 2/28/2013 11:59am
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jeffro503 wrote:
Well I'll be damned. I didn't know either you or Steve drove RC.....pretty cool. I myself just got back into it a few weeks ago. We...
Well I'll be damned. I didn't know either you or Steve drove RC.....pretty cool. I myself just got back into it a few weeks ago. We have a descent little 1/8th scale track about 20min from my hose and a bunch of my old MX racing buddies got into driving about a year ago. We have a possible 2 more bigger 1/8th scale tracks that are in planning stages right now for spring and summer. I picked up two ( almost new ) Mugen MBX-6 Eco's and am going all electric as of right now , but may put together a nitro buggy if the new tracks allow it. I still have 7-8 motors left , starting box and all the good stuff.....just need a place to run them. Weekend before last I had my first drive back in about 7 - 8yrs......man what a blast!

Dave and Steve.....have either of you guys tried the RC track at Glen Helen yet? I heard it was pretty large and fit 1/8th scale pretty well.
I have a friend, Who runs the 1/8th scale. And he said the glen helen track is alot of fun.. I have yet to be to it personally, As my little 1/10th scale scb10b would probably get destroyed lol.

As for nitro buggys, I think the only track that's running them currently is Revelation.

I personally Think electric is the way to go. Nitro is fun if you can tune.. but if you cant... prepare to be pissed off 24/7 with that thing lol.
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GuyB 2/28/2013 12:21pm
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mx757 wrote:
What were you guys running? Shortcourse?
Motodave15 wrote:
yup.

I was running my sc10brs, He had a regular shortcourse i believe.
Yep, stock (17.5) short course, and stock (17.5) int. buggy.
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jeffro503 2/28/2013 2:39pm
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Funny we got onto an RC subject here. I received my Tekin hotwire today and have never played around with one until now. Pretty nifty little piece of hardware to tune your ESC with. I only had that one drive on my new Mugen.....but knew I had some changes that needed to be done on that ESC.
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dirtydaveCO 2/28/2013 4:03pm
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When the Lakewood National comes to town you should head over to MHOR RC or Unser underground. Great tracks. Unser even does Supercross style with a starting gate. Been pretty fun.

Here is some vids to MHOR. About 25-30 minutes from the Thunder Valley

Here is Unser track. They only to the gate drop on supercross Saturday's.
Not to mention you can have a waitress bring you a nice cold tall beer while you're racing......

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Switch 2/28/2013 5:28pm
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jeffro503 wrote:
Funny we got onto an RC subject here. I received my Tekin hotwire today and have never played around with one until now. Pretty nifty little...
Funny we got onto an RC subject here. I received my Tekin hotwire today and have never played around with one until now. Pretty nifty little piece of hardware to tune your ESC with. I only had that one drive on my new Mugen.....but knew I had some changes that needed to be done on that ESC.
I drive myself crazy adjusting the brakes on my RS Pro's.. have one on a TLR 22SCT and a TLR 22 buggy.. never can find the setting I like. Hotwire is a blessing and a curse, haha.
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FLmxer 2/28/2013 7:53pm
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I heard about a track and showed up and they were racing that day. Even though I had never even seen a real RC track I signed up and gave it a shot. The guy I was racing against in the silver truck was the owner ofcoarse. Doh.

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Motodave15 2/28/2013 9:08pm
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flmxer there were some good battles in that vid.. looks like a fun track too.

@dirtydave that video gives sx another reason to not put a triple after the start lol..total bash fest... looks like fun though
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dirtydaveCO wrote:
When the Lakewood National comes to town you should head over to MHOR RC or Unser underground. Great tracks. Unser even does Supercross style with a...
When the Lakewood National comes to town you should head over to MHOR RC or Unser underground. Great tracks. Unser even does Supercross style with a starting gate. Been pretty fun.

Here is some vids to MHOR. About 25-30 minutes from the Thunder Valley

Here is Unser track. They only to the gate drop on supercross Saturday's.
Not to mention you can have a waitress bring you a nice cold tall beer while you're racing......

Who needs Yoga or marathons when you have this track? Just sign up to be a track worker during races! You are guaranteed to lose 5 pounds in a single day in pure sweat! LOL. That seriously looks like a total blast for a track though. That would be a BUSY track for a throttle / trigger finger. I think the track would be better with the larger black drainage pipes for track barriers, it might keep the cars / trucks from jumping / crashing into the other lanes so easily.

Fun vid and would love to have one as nice here! Thank you for sharing.
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Myke 2/28/2013 9:59pm
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lAsT_CrAsH wrote:
Toy cars...
MBX7 here
Wow almost 5 years till your first post. That has to be a record!
lAsT_CrAsH 2/28/2013 10:01pm
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Toy cars...
MBX7 here
Myke wrote:
Wow almost 5 years till your first post. That has to be a record!
I don't talk muchSmile
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Myke 2/28/2013 10:03pm
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RC racing is the only thing that I miss from the east coast since my move to San Luis Obispo. No tracks even close to here.

Solid "B" main (= stock short course and modified stadium truck racer here.

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mx757 2/28/2013 10:17pm
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I have a shit ton of cars right now sitting in my garage.

Associated:
SC10 2wd with a Reedy Sonic 13.5 and Castle Mamba Max ESC
B4.1 buggy, all stock

Team Durango
Dex210 RTR buggy

Kyosho
Inferno VE Race Spec 1/8 Electronic Buggy
Inferno Neo Race Spec Nitro buggy

I havent run any of them in a while. Need to charge up some battery packs and go to Unser.
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The Captain 2/28/2013 11:53pm
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I have two Team Losi Kinwald Edition XXX buggies and one truck. Are these still competitive at all if I were to upgrade the electronics?

Thanks!
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FLmxer 3/1/2013 7:36am
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I actually bought the pro transmitter with lap timer, temp and rpm displayed on remote. pretty cool to see your lap times.
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FLmxer 3/1/2013 7:41am
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The last half of this video is the first day running a lipo truck.
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FLmxer 3/1/2013 7:48am
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And here it is after a lot of laps. I know it is to much Soundgarden but it was the only music on that computer at the time. lol

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FLmxer 3/1/2013 7:57am
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And unfortunately it did not take long to get tore up like a real track. Sadly this is what it looks like now.
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bartoner 3/1/2013 8:06am
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I have 2 Brushless Blitz's and 1 Brushless 4wd Slash....never been to a real track...just mostly street / backyard bashing...and of course campsite racing in the desert....
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jap114 3/1/2013 11:03am
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Hey, not one mention of Traxxis - WTF! I kid, I kid. I guess all the Kawi guys need to modify their podium speeches to sell more of their stuff!

I read this entire thread without a clue as to who makes what in this hobby! Sounds like ton-o-fun though.
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KlootZak 3/1/2013 11:34am
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After reading the topic title I tought you were going to say

"Said no one this year"
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FLmxer 3/1/2013 2:09pm
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Mine is a Losi SCTE 4x4. I have the Traxxas and there is just no comparison in the handling department.

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