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Greetings all and happy Thursday! Before we get to it this week, a few notes- the crew at Horizon did a wicked job at Horizon RC Fest! I’m sure they are gonna do up 2024 even bigger, somehow! It’s always a can’t miss event on the calendar! Long time r/c monster truck fan/racer and, most importantly, full size Raminator driver Dan “Cheech” [...]
Hey gang, coming to you a bit earlier this week so you have some time to make plans for the awesomeness that’s happening this weekend near Champaign, IL! Horizon Hobby is holding their annual Horizon RC Fest event June 9th and 10th and they are doing it up bigger than ever. Whether you are wanting to watch the stunt flyers (you [...]
Hey folks and Happy Thursday! Well, last weekend it finally was time to re-power my new TLR tuned LMT. I got five to six years of use out of my Graupner brushless system, but it finally starting acting up. It was time to go shopping! It’s been awhile since I’ve had a new Castle system so after doing a bit of research, [...]
Hey gang and Happy Thursday! It’s that time of year again where I’m inviting all monster truck lunatics to come out to the BIGFOOT 4×4 Open House! The event is being held on Saturday, July 8th at the BIGFOOT 4×4 shop in Pacific, MO! I’ll be helping to host the annual solid axle monster truck race at the event which is put on [...]
Hello folks, you’ve made it to Thursday and another Monster Truck Madness! The Trigger King monster truck club that I race with recently held their second outdoor race of the season, and I was able to get even more trigger time in with my TLR tuned Losi LMT. Not only that, but several of the trucks were in competition across various [...]
It’s time to pour one out for the Axial SMT10. After seeing that it was discontinued on various websites and hearing rumors that it was being phased out, I have had it confirmed that the SMT10 is indeed actually being discontinued. The Losi LMT has firmly supplanted it in the Horizon family as the defacto solid axle monster truck platform. This [...]
Hello everyone. This is a very somber MTM. Last week the r/c monster truck community lost a very important figure – Marlon Cox. Marlon has long been active in the online monster truck community (full size AND r/c). He created, along with his brother Rafael and friends, the Showtime R/C Motorsports club. He is one of the folks behind the Solid Axle [...]
Hey folks and Happy Friday! Little bit of an expected topic this week, but with Duratrax annoucing Clip-Lock Wheel Faces for Ripper 2.8″ Wheels, I wanted to talk about my love of beadlock rings for monster trucks. Beadlock rings, whether real or faux, are one of my favorite accessories to add to any monster truck to really help set off the look. [...]
Hey gang and Happy Thursday to you all! One of the guys I race with, who is also JConcepts team driver, showed up to our race in early April sporting a very slick looking Sudden Impact livery on a mysterious 90’s Ford truck body. Specifically, a 1997 Ford. This was a popular getup with full size monsters in the late 90’s, probably [...]
Hey folks and Happy Thursday! I hope wherever you are reading this, that the weather is as nice as it is where I’m at – high 70’s and sunny. It’s prime “get back outdoors with your r/c’s” weather! I’ve got a couple e-mails to get through this week, so let’s do it. Good afternoon, I have seen a lot of your articles lately [...]
Hello everyone and Happy Thursday! I just had my first monster truck racing weekend of 2023 and got to get my fleet dirty! I want to focus on my LMT’s here, though. Both are quite a bit different from each other given they are the same platform, but both trucks are my two favorite r/c’s that I currently own. Let’s start with [...]
Hey folks, welcome to a special edition of the weekly MTM! April 2nd is Autism Awareness day, and in celebration of that I’m wanting to give some extra visibility to a special build from friend Outlaws of Motorsports RC (his Instagram handle is @outlawsofmotorsportsrc). His truck, named “The Spectrum”, has a great story behind it. And with that, I’ll let [...]
Hey all and Happy Thursday! I wanted to share where I’m at with my TLR Tuned Losi LMT kit and share some overall build impressions thus far. In my 30+ years in the hobby, I’ve somehow never built a Losi kit before. Kinda wild when I think about that, but it’s true! The instructions are nicely laid out, and each step of the [...]
Hello everyone and Happy St. Patrick’s Day! This week we are talking about foams. Closed foams to be more specific. Ok, JConcepts Slam-Tech monster truck closed cell foams to be hyper specific. Closed cell foams are dense and resist deforming, unlike the “sponge” feeling of standard open cell foam. They resist flat spotting. They last a long time. They are also water [...]
Hey folks and Happy Thursday! I got a shipment update from UPS that made me VERY happy- my TLR Tuned Losi LMT kit has shipped! I was one of the first to pre-order and got in the first batch, so I got lucky in a crazy quick turn around. I think all pre-orders are slated to ship by April at the [...]
