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I'm into RC for all the hot chicks.
HeartBreak
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I bashed for a while, then raced, then bashed, then raced... The racing scene in this area tends to fluxuate as people come and go. Right now, even tho there's a racing scene out there, I'm bashing, because the local racing scene is fulla jerks.
mudbogginredneck
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basher for life
Started as a basher 5 years ago. Still a basher.
mnm
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Basher at this moment, been bashing ever since I started this hobby 2-3 years back, and might I say I really like bashing a lot. I do race every once in a while, but its just with friends and family, nothing major, Never really got the chance to race in any major races, but would really like to and thinking about doing it shortly.
I'd say basher for life. Why? Because even though there's 200,000 people in the city I live in, we have ABSOLUTELY NO off-road tracks. As a matter of fact, my LHS runs only dirt oval. That's it. No on-road. No off-road. I'd have to drive an hour to get to a track.
Started off bashing, then racing but...
I bash whenever I can and race when I can. Sometimes I just sit there and look at my rigs if I can do either.
I dont know WTF I'm doing.
And the chicks....
I bash whenever I can and race when I can. Sometimes I just sit there and look at my rigs if I can do either.
I dont know WTF I'm doing.
And the chicks....
Pretty much basher. Although with a new local track here, I would just like to see what the hoop la is about racing. But the truth is, I will always be a basher I think. Oh..and for the chicks like we saw at RCX. Especially the one in the pit area. Whoooo doggie!!
J/K guys. Just wanted to see if Dom or Jon saw this post!!
J/K guys. Just wanted to see if Dom or Jon saw this post!!
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Yeah I'm sticking to bashing, i have tried racing and just get a bunch of trash talk because i am younger, however beating the trash talkers is always a good feeling.
Anyways the mag said we all almost always start off as bashers, however after we bash and learn how to drive we start getting into the higher end RC's and want more copetition thus moving us into racing. ATM the % of people who bash and race are leveling out from the past years where people only bashed.
Anyways the mag said we all almost always start off as bashers, however after we bash and learn how to drive we start getting into the higher end RC's and want more copetition thus moving us into racing. ATM the % of people who bash and race are leveling out from the past years where people only bashed.
Primarily a basher, although I'm starting into racing this year. I hear the R/C groupies are easy!
kx250ryder
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1.) Started with department store toy r/c from 6-13 yrs. old.
2.) From 13-15 raced electric on road parking lot ovals with lowered off road trucks (touring cars didn't exist yet); I won pretty regularly over all the Associated and Losi offerings with a crappy Traxxas Hawk 2. Gave it up because I didn't like the competition (people took it too serious), and couldn't afford the upkeep at the time.
3.) From 15-16 bought a Losi XXT w/ 12 turn modified and we built an off road backyard track with friends. The truck spent most of its time broken, since the pivot supports and ball studs were about as strong as wet cardboard. I was still using couple year old batteries that were left over from my racing days. Once those crapped out, I pretty much gave up.
4.) From 16-17, got a dirt bike, and a job which pay for illegal substances and partying. Forgot about R/C, except for occaisionally when my buddy bought a touring car, and then a Losi GTX, which was my first taste of nitro. It never ran, since we didn't know how to tune, so we all gave up R/C shortly after.
5.) 18-23, dark ages for R/C until my buddy picked up a OFNA Ultra MBX R2. Piece of crap by 1/8th scale standards, but the most kick ass thing we had ever seen. Finally got to see a properly running nitro car.
6.) 24-present(which is 25.5) Same buddy got a used Hyper 7 PCR on Ebay, and that prompted me to buy my first buggy (and first R/C vehicle in a decade). I got a used 9.5, and unlike my buddy's mine was in horrible shape. The engines it came with gave out in days, so did the servos, diffs, etc. The buggy I bought for $330.00 has currently burned over $1500.00 in my pocket (between repairs and upgrades). We built a self watering off road track, and had 4 cars going, which was a blast.
But two moved away, and my buddy that kept me close to R/C all these years, well. . . his girlfriend shat out a kid, basically leaving me with $2k worth of buggy and nobody to drive with. The nearest (and only) 1/8th buggy track is 30+ miles, and I work the days they race. So now I pretty much just take my buggy out and bash it once a month or so, when the planets align, my girlfriend isn't around, and my buddy with the kid manages to escape the family.
So I went from basher to racer to basher to racer(on a backyard track) to basher again.
2.) From 13-15 raced electric on road parking lot ovals with lowered off road trucks (touring cars didn't exist yet); I won pretty regularly over all the Associated and Losi offerings with a crappy Traxxas Hawk 2. Gave it up because I didn't like the competition (people took it too serious), and couldn't afford the upkeep at the time.
3.) From 15-16 bought a Losi XXT w/ 12 turn modified and we built an off road backyard track with friends. The truck spent most of its time broken, since the pivot supports and ball studs were about as strong as wet cardboard. I was still using couple year old batteries that were left over from my racing days. Once those crapped out, I pretty much gave up.
4.) From 16-17, got a dirt bike, and a job which pay for illegal substances and partying. Forgot about R/C, except for occaisionally when my buddy bought a touring car, and then a Losi GTX, which was my first taste of nitro. It never ran, since we didn't know how to tune, so we all gave up R/C shortly after.
5.) 18-23, dark ages for R/C until my buddy picked up a OFNA Ultra MBX R2. Piece of crap by 1/8th scale standards, but the most kick ass thing we had ever seen. Finally got to see a properly running nitro car.
6.) 24-present(which is 25.5) Same buddy got a used Hyper 7 PCR on Ebay, and that prompted me to buy my first buggy (and first R/C vehicle in a decade). I got a used 9.5, and unlike my buddy's mine was in horrible shape. The engines it came with gave out in days, so did the servos, diffs, etc. The buggy I bought for $330.00 has currently burned over $1500.00 in my pocket (between repairs and upgrades). We built a self watering off road track, and had 4 cars going, which was a blast.
But two moved away, and my buddy that kept me close to R/C all these years, well. . . his girlfriend shat out a kid, basically leaving me with $2k worth of buggy and nobody to drive with. The nearest (and only) 1/8th buggy track is 30+ miles, and I work the days they race. So now I pretty much just take my buggy out and bash it once a month or so, when the planets align, my girlfriend isn't around, and my buddy with the kid manages to escape the family.
So I went from basher to racer to basher to racer(on a backyard track) to basher again.
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Rush Evo man
Gone - bye bye.
mudbogginredneck said:
yeah, me too.
but i have a local track called bolwextric aswell so i use that to race.
kurt_02f150
Gone - bye bye.
x2 .mudbogginredneck said:
Rush Evo man
Gone - bye bye.
good on you.
BTW, under your name it says gone - bye bye, what that mean?
BTW, under your name it says gone - bye bye, what that mean?
LuckyJimMT2
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I know I'm mainly bashing...but would like to get into racing after I move to Australia.
