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Ken Block – Traxxas E-Revo . Not For You!
Our friends from Traxxas just released these pictures of the special edition (read 1 of 1) Ken Block E-Revo. It’s got his signature paint, green beadlock rims, huge Chevron tires, custom hubs and Exo-Carbon wing! This was made special for Ken and is a one-off. Enjoy the pics, I dig those HUGE beadlocks! #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: [...]
Venom Gambler Short Course Truck Review
THE Venom 1/10th Gambler SC RTR Review From: Venom Direct Link: Venom Gamber – Short Course Truck Review by Cubby Photos by- Sam “The Photog”Ever since the Traxxas Slash was introduced to the world, short course trucks have been all the rage. The rc world was used to driving alien looking “stadium trucks” and “buggies”, but instantly fell head over heals for the [...]
- 3/29/2011
- 12:13 pm
- Car & Truck Reviews
Venom Group - By: Cubby
March Bash-ness – Final Round Voting and Giveaway Entry
Click to embiggen [Update: Polls and comments are closed! Thanks for voting and hit up the front page tomorrow for the official crowning of The Ultimate Bashing Truck, then check back on Friday for the announcement of the giveaway winner and what he or she has won!] [Update from Brian: I have to admit the excitement of the final March-Bashness round [...]
HobbyKing Gets Store Fronts?
Ok, put this in the ‘we didn’t see that coming’ category. But it looks like mega online retailer HobbyKing.com is going to be opening up stores! Here’s a quote from their head guy Anthony Hand: “In an ever increasing effort to drive more value into the R/C market HobbyKing has begun piloting retail store franchises in select regions around [...]
Traxxas Pays It Forward…
No, it’s not a new Traxxas vehicle. It may be something even better. Traxxas has signed on to support St. Jude Children’s Hospital in their quest to cure and prevent catastrophic diseases that strike children. Traxxas has joined with Amsoil, SPX, and Ford to race the St. Jude Children’s Hospital Mustang FE500S in the SCCA World Challenge [...]
THE Cub Report- 03.28.2011- Some People Just Don’t Get IT
Hello rc community, yet another week blown right by us. Monster Supercross update? Well….. Bel-Ray/Shift rider Chad Reed left Toronto Saturday night with the points lead in the Supercross class. Reed had a horrible 2010, and not many thought he’d even be in the hunt this year, but he’s proving otherwise. Reed finished second in Toronto, vaulting him into the [...]
Traxxas Ken Block Gymkhana Fiesta Unboxing Photos
So we got our hands on the Traxxas Ken Block 1/16th scale Gymkhana Fiesta edition, and of-course we had to do the un-boxing before the formal review right? Bill Wrench snapped up these pics before we were heading out for some serious drifting action! #gallery-3 { margin: auto; } #gallery-3 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-3 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-3 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* [...]
March Bash-ness – Round 3 Voting
click to embiggen [Update 2: Voting for Round 3 has now closed, click here for the Final Round and Giveaway entry!] [Update: Due to a d-bag spamming our poll, I had to go back and edit all 180 of his/her cast votes from the polls. That user has been warned, if it happens again, the ban will be permanent.] Round 2 of March [...]
Dynamite Passport Ultra Power DC Charger now avaliable
It looks like Dynamite RC is continuing their line of affordable, feature-rich chargers with the new Passport Ultra Power DC Charger. This 150W charge power, 25W discharge power DC charger comes with Tamiya, Traxxas, Deans Ultra, EC3 and EC5 battery adaptors. It can charge up to 26 NiCD/NiMH cells, 9 cell Li-ION/LiFe batteries, and Pb batteries between [...]
R/C Around the Web - Busy week means something has to suffer…
Photo of the Week:by Steven Velasco What a week it’s been, between the 36 hour turn-&-burn of RCX last weekend, to our hugely successful March Bash-ness Event, things around here have just been out of control. And they’re continuing into next week as we wrap up March Bash-ness and give away another vehicle. Is it going to be an HPI or [...]
HPI Racing Drops Some New Truck Lids
HPI Racing didn’t want the truck driving crew to feel left out, and have a couple 1979 Ford F-150 bodies to go along with their car body releases we mentioned earlier.The standard Ford F-150 body is made for all you Savage X and Maxx owners, comes with premium photo realistic decals, and is made of 0.040″ clear polycarbonate to hold [...]
- 3/25/2011
- 12:00 pm
- HPI Racing
New Products - By: Evan
New Car Bodies from HPI Racing
Everyone loves a hot body… HPI has just launched three new shells for your road racing rides. The BMW M3 GT2, SCION XB, and the 1970 Dodge Challenger all come clear, for you to paint up any way you want. They come with photo realistic die-cut premium vinyl decals, over spray film, and pre-cut window masks. The BMW and Dodge [...]
- 3/25/2011
- 11:41 am
- HPI Racing
New Products - By: Evan
March Bash-ness – Round 2 Voting
Click to embiggen [Update: Voting for Round 2 has now closed. Round 3 voting is open!] March Bash-ness round one is done, the winners have moved on and the losers have gone home. To recap the first round of voting, the young and spry Savage Flux handily trounced the great-grandfather of monster trucks, the Clod Buster. The Stampede 4×4 VXL [...]
New Hot Bodies 21XZ-B Hara Edition Racing Engine
It looks like Hot Bodies is making a special Hara Edition of their 21XZ-B .21 race engine. This engine is supposedly the exact same spec as the engine Atsushi Hara used to take his second 1/8th buggy Worlds podium in Thailand in 2010. First his own buggy, now the engine to go with it! This hopped up monster features [...]
Charge your batteries in less than 10 seconds…?
(a) Cross-sectional SEM image of an MnO2 cathode. (b) Lithiated MnO2 cathode. Zhang et al. Stolen from Green Car Congress. Ever thought you’d see the day when you could charge your batteries in less than 10 seconds? It may be coming with recent breakthroughs in nano-technology. A group of researchers lead by Paul Braun, professor of materials science and engineering, at [...]
