Bashing a race buggy?

[DavidB1126]

Thanks to @luke66 for the recommendation

Added a few mm's of ride height from my base setup for the local track. Also got out my old carpet tires. This set is worn down and ill never use again so it should be fine for just bashing around. But, which set would be more better? Old set of carpet tires (pins worn down) or slicks? My set of slicks have a larger sidewall than the carpet set.

I'll use one of my old maclan packs and ill take it out when this rain gets out of here. Need a new body anyways so ill keep this one as my basher or practice body, and my new one will be my pretty race body.

 

[bill_delong]

carpet tires for dirt/gravel and slicks for the street

if bashing on a asphalt parking lot or school yard, I recommend blowing the area free of dirt debris then use a garden sprayer filled with grape soda to cover the entire area and wait 30 min for the soda to dry to a tacky/sticky surface that will rival grip on an indoor clay track, just don't walk on the prepped surface as any dust will reduce grip.

 

[Tunedfrog]

Naw, drink the grape soda and head for the sand dunes.

 

[WickedFog]

Dude asks about which worn out tires to use and bill wants him to build a race track lol. Wow!

Hey bill, take your RC's out and have fun for once. For cryin out loud. Who in their right mind would go through all that to have a bash? Drink the soda... have fun kiddo.

 

[luke66]

Boredom at its best.
Enjoy My friend.

 

[Ramp addict]

Maybe you should consider forking up for a new set of wheels specific to where you'll be driving it. Kind of like racing, except different.

 

[Xraycer]

What are good tires for ants infestated pavement?

 

[WickedFog]

What are good tires for ants infestated pavement?

None that are as effective as the all new
Arrma Ant-B-Gor-gon!

 

[tntpoof]

DDT dipped

 

[Lostinthewoods86]

What are good tires for ants infestated pavement?

bifen

 

[WickedFog]

DDT dipped

Nice. Not only does it kill every bug within a 5 mile radius, but it sterilizes all the neighborhood kids

 

[ahr43]

Hey David. Run what you got till you wear 'em out. That's what's bashing's all about. And have fun doing it. -AC

 

[Doom!]

Don't mess with ants dude, didn't you learn anything from @WickedFog 's spider incident? Those ants will mess you up man!

 

[Tunedfrog]

I'll take care of it.

 

[Panko75]

Grab some slicks if you enjoy drifting around on asphalt, thats what I run on my on-roaders when I want to do donuts and such.

 

[RustyUs]

From Frogs to B4s... I've been "bashing" buggies before "bashing" was a thing. It's all about know your RC's limits.

Bashing is simply driving your RC vehicle around without rules and regulations. From vacant lots to mall parking lots; from the backyard to highway 181; from 1/24 to 1/4 scale RC platforms... it is all about you and your RC having fun ripping 'n' tearing around as fast, or slow, as you see fit. If a person wants to toss plastic, and metal toys 30' into the air... so be it. That's just one of many levels in the RC bashing world.

I'd love to get another 1/10 4wd buggy to bash. For my dirt situation though, I think an out in the open center 48P gear would not hold up. That's the part that scares me. Oh, well.

You do you.

 

[Lumikko]

I had some fun with my B74.2D outdoors until a stone trashed the spur gear.

D for ”Dirt”. Yes.

I think they should make a gearbox for the center diff and spur gear, like the one on the LC Racing LC12 B1. Race buggies were never that great for ”bashing before it was called bashing” but at least back then exposed gears were left to those 1/10th and 1/12th on-road cars. It’s sad that we can’t take an ”off-road” buggy even on a gravel road without risking it.

 

[Slick2500]

Thanks to @luke66 for the recommendation

Added a few mm's of ride height from my base setup for the local track. Also got out my old carpet tires. This set is worn down and ill never use again so it should be fine for just bashing around. But, which set would be more better? Old set of carpet tires (pins worn down) or slicks? My set of slicks have a larger sidewall than the carpet set.

I'll use one of my old maclan packs and ill take it out when this rain gets out of here. Need a new body anyways so ill keep this one as my basher or practice body, and my new one will be my pretty race body. View attachment 189194View attachment 189191View attachment 189189View attachment 189192View attachment 189193

From my own personal experience 1/10 race vehicles do not make the best bashers for jumping they are a lot more fragile than you would think. 1/8th scale race buggy's and truggies are better suited for bashing.

 

[DavidB1126]

Yea I took it out the other day. Ideally only want to use it in the alley and do some AWD drifts.

 

[GotNoRice]

When I decided to get back into RC with my friend back in 2011, I got a Team Associated RC10B4.1 mainly because when I was a kid in the 90's I had a much older RC10 and I still had a lot of nostalgia about that driving my purchase. It turns out that it wasn't a very great basher. It was fragile, didn't do great on very rough surfaces, etc. I ended up getting a Traxxas Stampede 4x4 Monster Truck, which was really what I should have got in the first place. It is/was perfect for bashing.

I still however did my best to harden and improve the B4.1 to make it a better basher. The RPM bumper on the front helped protect things nicely and helped keep the front end down. Other parts were replaced with RPM parts if available otherwise aluminum. I got a set of tires that can actually go more than one day of bashing without wearing down bald like most track tires, but I also keep a set of track tires in my bag for if/when I do go to the track. It's still not a great basher compared to the Monster Trucks but at least it doesn't break every 5 minutes anymore!