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It was event number 3 of 4 in the Suburban Chicago Rock Crawling point series. This was another real close event. The turn out was great! There were a ton of people and spectators, the store was completely packed! The event was hosted at RC Hobbies – Naperville and they did a great job! There were [...]
Now this is a cool use of modern technology! Pro-Line Racing is bringing Memory Foam inserts for RC Rock Crawling! I got a few emails telling me there is another company that has some memory foams as well, but no where near as cheap. It will be interesting to see if temperature has any [...]
So I made a few phone calls to our spys in the trenches and came up with these. I have been told that these are still in testing, and both vehicles may change before we see them for sale. This first vehicle is being called the CEN Baja Matrix STX. It’s a cool new trophy truck [...]
Team Novak brings good news again! This one really has my attention! Team Novak now has a brushless conversion kit for the Losi 8ight! The kit contains all the necessary parts needed to make the conversion from nitro to electric! I really think I need to do a buggy conversion this spring. It would be [...]
YEA! Well, at the moment anyway. If you had some trouble getting to Big Squid RC today, there is some major behind the scenes work going on with our awesome ISP. Besides some of the normal work, they are getting ready for a big server/system move either Thursday night, or this weekend. What’s this mean? It means Big Squid [...]
I don’t have much info on these new vehicles that some CEN Racing employee’s were out testing somewhere, but it looks like there is a new Matrix Buggy and TR Arena Truggy on the horizon. I’ll make a few calls and see what dirt I can dig out of some of our spy’s out there. [...]
Shall I jump right into the good stuff here? Of course! Biggest disappointment of the week? Easily has to go to Kyosho after finding out that their “AKA Brand- World Class Products by World Champions” isn’t going to be some esoteric line-up of cars. Instead, AKA’s first release is 8th scale dirt tires. Yes, 8th scale dirt is the single hottest [...]
Well this was a rough couple of days! I was stuck in bed for a few with a 102 degree fever. I finally shake it off, to find have a lot of the behind the scenes server stuff of Big Squid RC was getting a big update! Hopefully things are running bigger, better, and faster! As a consequence, we were [...]
KCRC’s 2.2 Midwest Indoor Challenge- by Tim Mohr While in Kansas City March 1st for some business, I had to check out my first rock crawler event. Actually, in the rock crawling world, they are called “comps”, and what a first comp to hit. This event featured some of the elite top crawlers, and had tons of factory [...]
We just received this press release from Grand Motorsports: Grand Motorsports DragSpec Car kits now come standard with ball bearings, four 1/8 by 5/16² flanged for the front wheels and two 1/4 by 3/8² flanged for the rear axle. No need to upgrade later, get on track right from the start! DragSPEC Pro Stock Kit – 2100 [...]
Ok, maybe not EVERY battery, but it sure would make a good attempt! The CORE RC UDC-20 balancing charger comes with a ton of charging leads! It is ready to charge just about anything right out of the box. It also has a integrated balancer for 2-5 cell lipo packs. LiPo balancing is all the rage [...]
We get emails and forum suggestions of products that we should check out or review, and I thought I would take a moment and let you know the some of the stuff we have in the works. First up, we have started to mess with the new Duratrax RT-X 27! Fastest monster on the [...]
I would like to congratulate Nic Case for officially getting into the World Record books as having the fastest RC car! The official record is 134.4mph, though he has a 160 mph run! WOW. Having gone pretty fast myself, though it’s no where near his speeds, I can appreciate the skill and difficulties in hitting the kinds [...]