It wouldn’t be March Bash-ness without a few upsets and controversies, but in the end we have a winner! The ARRMA NERO BIG ROCK has been voted the March Bash-ness 2017 Champion! Congratulations to ARRMA and the Hobbico team! A few of the Big Squid RC crew had the ARRMA NERO going to the finals in their brackets, it’s a [...]
Bump up the performance of your TLR with their new 8IGHT 4.0 Tuning Kit. The tuning kit comes with a slew of performance upgrades to bring your buggy up to current racing specs. Some of the parts included in the kit include- * New wing and high down-force body * Ultralite aluminum chassis * Heavy duty brakes * Front & rear universal drive shafts * [...]
The folks at Pro-Line have released a new promotional video for their Devastator 2.6″ Monster Truck Tires. The Devastators are molded in Pro-Line’s soft M3 compound and were designed to give your monster truck maximum grip in soft outdoor conditions. This can give your Clod sized monster truck a big advantage when racing or bashing with your friends. Check out [...]
All new for 2017 is the Rocky Mountain Hobby Expo. The expo will be held October 28th and 29th at the Denver Mart in Denver Colorado. The timing of the show puts it where the iHobby expo would have been traditionally, but is also optimal for creating an avenue to reach consumers just prior to the critical holiday season. The 2017 [...]
To wrap up our coverage of the 2017 Weak Signals Toledo Show we wanted to post a bunch of pictures to give you at home a look at what the show was like. Have a look at the gallery below to get a feel for what it was like to walk around the show. The Weak Signals show was this year, [...]
Traxxas is one of the biggest names in R/C and there is a reason for that. They treat their dealers and customers with respect. I have had numerous interactions with Traxxas’ customer support from a dealers perspective, and I have heard countless testimonies raving about how well they operate and how they treat their customers as humans, not just walking [...]
New from Redcat Racing is the Carbon 210 Race Drone. The Carbon 210 comes pre-assembled (but without goggles) and sports a full carbon fiber chassis. It also some standard with an HD camera and powerful brushless motors are used to give it serious speed. A F3 flight controller is included, as well as a 6 channel 2.4GHz radio and aluminum [...]
Another company making a huge showing at the 2017 Weak Signals show in Toledo was our good friends at Hobbico. The Hobbico crew had a giant booth sporting all of their latest air products. On the drone side of things they were showing off the very popular RISE Vusion House Racer, as well as the RISE RXS255 race machine. There [...]
The big news from RC4WD today is D44 Complete Plastic Axles. The plastic axles are available as a D44 Front as well as a D44 Rear. Both units come with heavy duty internals but lightweight plastic exterior pieces. The plastic D44s retain their sharp scale look to make your build look even more realistic. * Made from injection molded black nylon * [...]
Coming in from Olathe Kansas to attend Weak Signals 2017 was the friendly crew from Castle Creations. Castle is a leader in brushless power systems and they were showing off loads of air and surface products. Of note was their new gray rock crawler motors which are a sensored designed with low kV ratings that are perfect for the scale/crawling [...]
By far the largest surface booth at Weak Signals 2017 was filled by Team KNK Hardware. With Weak Signals being primarily an air show, it was nice to see the Team KNK crew showing off some surface vehicles and their hardware kits to all the show attendees. Not only did Team KNK have dozens of different high quality hardware kits [...]
The Traxxas crew has been putting out some epic videos lately. Their latest, which is called Step Up Send Off, is also a great watch. In Step Up Send Off you’ll get to see some super high quality video of the 8S X-Maxx throwing major roost and catching massive airtime. Watch the video above to see some good old fashioned [...]
I think maybe I’ve touched on this subject before, but I feel the need to talk about it again. I do a lot of motorcycle riding, and while riding on-road, there is a whole lot of brotherhood going on. While riding an on-road motorcycle, while there is some politics to it, you basically wave at every other motorcycle you meet, [...]
Horizon Hobby has been a huge supporter of Weak Signals for many years, this year their booth was massive and filled with all sorts of rc goodies. With the Weak Signals show being one where products are sold directly to consumers, one end of the Horizon Hobby booth was dedicated to sales, while the other part displayed all of their [...]
To upgrade the steering in your X-Maxx, the crew at Traxxas have released the 2085X. The 2085X servo has more torque than the stock unit, but perhaps more importantly, it comes with full metal gears to improve durability. The BSRC Bash Crew has been thrashing the daylights out of a 2085X in one of our X-Maxx test trucks for several [...]
