Fresh off the Chi-Town crew holding a big bash, there is no rest for the wicked as we will be at the BIGFOOT 4×4 Open House in Pacific, MO (just outside St. Louis) this weekend- Saturday April 23rd to be more precise. The Open House is an annual event put on by the Bigfoot monster truck team which is held at their shop. [...]
Make easy work of cleaning your K&N air filter with the new Aerosol Care Service Kit from Losi. The kit comes in two parts, a cleaner and filter oil, helping to make a dreaded chore easy. The K&N Service Kit is priced at just $20 and has a part number of #LOS77001. Stoked that it is Friday? So are we, try [...]
While short and sweet, the air is absolutely HUGE in the video above. Shot on the slopes of a skiing area, the driver of a ARRMA Talion BLX Truggy catches some insane air, and the crowd reaction aftewards is priceless. If you haven’t heard about the Talion, it is an 1/8th scale brushless RTR truggy that is priced at $479. Want [...]
A couple of years ago at the Nuremburg Toy Fair, Serpent had teased a 1/8th scale monster truck. That particular truck never materialized, but this week at the Beijing Hobby Show they teased another. This one is a 1/8th scale MT called the E-Monster Truck and is expected to be released as a RTR. This would be pretty huge news [...]
It is no secret that the ARRMA Granite BLX is a great bash machine. Recently the folks at Hobbico took one out to get some good old fashioned bashing in and shot video of their adventure. Watch the above video to see Hobbico’s surface team manager Brad Brucker get in some airtime with the Granite BLX. Brad goes into full-on [...]
“fuel mix Dear Cubby, I recently stepped up to a 1/5 scale. Really enjoying it. My question is about fuel ratio. Every manual I’ve read says 25:1, and that’s what I’ve been running. But I’ve seen on forums that a lot of people are running 32:1 or even 40:1. I even read in a mag that they ran the new losi dbxl [...]
In another move forward on the path to global domination, drone racing will soon be arriving on ESPN. Thanks to the International Drone Racing Association, we will all be watching our favorite hobby continue it’s meteoric rise and take center stage on the world wide leader in sports in the very near future. The international, multi-year deal was announced earlier [...]
Get your Traxxas X-Maxx into full tank-mode with some new Aluminum Upgrades from Hot Racing. What are some of the upgrades they offer? Quite a few actually. * Aluminum front upper chassis (pictured above) * Aluminum steering link set * Progressive spring set * Steel axle conversion * Steel stub axle * Aluminum diff cups * Aluminum gearbox cover * Aluminum upper rear gearbox cover * Aluminum steering knuckles * [...]
How cool would it be to put a 2 Speed Transmission into your Wraith? Well now you can with SSD’s 2 Speed Tranny Conversion Kit. Now you can have ultra low gearing for those tough rock sections, then hit a switch on your transmitter and have a taller second gear for wide open sections. Some of the highlights of the [...]
As the tech marches forever forward, FPV racing quadcopters are getting smaller and smaller. As the components shrink, so do the frames. And weighing in as a featherweight from the boys at Rebel Miniquads, comes the Rogue 130! This is one bad little frame. Available in red, white and black (with more colors to be announced soon), the Rogue 130mm sports a 2mm [...]
Who said nitro was dead? In fact, we saw more nitro burners at our bash last weekend than we’ve seen in recent years. The 8th scale nitro racing community is also having solid turnouts, thus the need for 8th scale race engines like the one recently announced by O.S. Engines. The crew at O.S. have released information on a Gold [...]
Back in the day, high-end turnbuckles were one of the most important option parts you could buy. Now days, not so much, but they are still really nice to have. JConcepts has recently announced a Titanium Turnbuckle Set for the TLR 8IGHT 4.0 buggy. The titanium turnbuckles are both lightweight and strong, and perhaps more importantly, they look really trick. [...]
It has been a while since Hyperion has released a new charger. For years their chargers were considered the best of the best, now they have announced the EOS 0840i to help continue that legacy. What’s new on the 0840i? * Maximum charge current of 40 amps * Up to 8S Lithium cell count * Can charge the new LiHV cells * High power [...]
It only took the power of social media 11 days and a not-so-typical 60 degree day in February for the Chi-Town RC Crawlers to come out of the woodwork. On February 17, an independent Facebook Group, Chi-Town RC Crawlers, was created giving Chicagoland RC crawler and rock racer enthusiasts a place to call their virtual home. In under two weeks [...]
At last, our BigSquidRC 2016 Bash & Smash is in the books, and quite the bash it was! With drivers coming in from all over the Midwest, a perfect venue, and some of the best weather that the Chi-Town metro has seen in months, the Bash & Smash just couldn’t have been much better. On Sunday April 17th, Bash & Smash [...]
