Helmutt

I wanted a Concours when I bought my 14, they were just a bit more than I could afford in '09. Post up pics of the bike!

Awesome stuff in its day, although a little after our time. Losi was late 80's right? My cousin bought an RC10 back when I had my Ultima, so we HAD to be enemies:D Team Associated and Kyosho was all there was way back when you wanted race quality equip. Now it seems Traxxas rules the roost. Whatever happened to 1/4 scale, weedeater powered JackRabbits? Those things were awesome and fast as hell! Oh yeah, smaller faster better cheaper stuff is what happened

Here's what I built back in '86 - aluminum tub chassis and fat 6cel 1200mah - state of the art LOL! After some major upgrades, looked more like this... Eventually I put the wide front end kit, wheels/tires, truck body to make a prolite truggy like this... Now, you can buy a complete RTR truck, radio, charger, batt packs, and a field bag for what we spent on the carkit alone:nono:

Yeah, ARF's weren't quite out yet when we started. My buggy took me 2 weeks to build, everyday after school I'd run home and work on it until bedtime. Every single screw, nut, gear, and linkage was assembled by me and a pocket screwdriver set. Proudest moment was when it was all put together, I took it outside and switched on the radio, swithed on the car, put it down and pulled the trigger on that pistolgrip to see the car takeoff in reverse! Damn, polarity was backwards ( oem junk mechanical speed control ). My neighbor thought it was hilarious as he ran his new Raider past me, but once I swapped the batt leads I proceeded to whoop all over his car I liked the planes, but it was scary seeing it get out of control now and then or forgetting which way your aelerons actuate while inverted hahaha. A friend's dad had a huge P51D with a monster 5cyl array, one high speed low alt flyby tore a wing clean from the fuselage, MAJOR money lost right then. I never flew again after that day, but sometimes I miss having one. The way these new elecs are performing, I could surely get back in cheap. We have a small airfield outside of Piqua behind Edison State CC, RC Hawks club but probably cost a bit to use their site

I know that 25 yrs ago we had over $1200 invested in my elec car. Carbon fiber chassis, graphite shock towers, platinum coil overs, a 3 foot stack of wheel/tire combos for offroad/oval/carpet/asphalt. My old 74mhz Airtronics XL2P was state of the art back then too As for the planes/boats, he spent well over $10k back then....not to mention half dozen 4 and 5 channel radios, fuel, tons of nitro 2strk/4strk engines. He loved his Wankel and opposing cyl engines, I was more a single cyl 4cycle fan. It was disheartening to see all of that hard work, time, and money underwater. We were on vacation and found it days later, lost a lot in that flood. Reloading equip and some of his woodworking equip too. It definitely killed our hobby, its too hard to just start over and by that age he didnt have it in him to go at it again. I salvaged some of the engines, but all of our electronics and balsa models were trashed.

Man, electrics have come leaps and bounds from when I was into it. Mid to late 80's, I had a 1/10th Kyosho Ultima that I 2wd truggied. We used to race Ohio RC Raceways in HuberHeights back then. 85k drag motor, 7cell 2.4kmah, and a huge pinion still only took it to just under 40mph. Dad was into planes and built a couple trainers, a Navy F4U Corsair, and a P40, all 4srk nitros. His pride n joy was a full on custom powerboat, 44" with a 32cc I/O. He looked over some plans but eventually designed his own. Unreal, hard to skate unless the water was glass, but it was stupid fast. He built me a 32" airboat and modded the fan tower for a .61" 4strk. Good times. Sadly, we lost most all of it to a basement flood.

Same scenario with me on mags thru SG. I ordered before Christmas and was put out until June ultimately, from April and May to 6/31 or some shit and still waiting. Dont know if those'll happen or not at this point. I have plenty but a guy at work wanted to split so it put me in cheap.

Primers are less abundant than ammo itself recently. Market value has surely driven the reloaders' upsales. Sucks too, I have been searching but guess we'll just have to b/o some in. At least ammo can be had again, just semi-limited and less reasonable pricewise....seems things are starting to calm down, but we're far from a year ago :fingerscrossed:

I like the naked version, looks less.....faggatious imo? I say the bagger variant almost a new version of the trusty old PC800, which never should have left Honda's lineup btw. I dont believe this will happen. Buell's radial mount is at the rim, not the hub or mag. But it is similar to a degree, so apparently his design is catching on with the whole bigger/better theory......a good design to keep more heat at bay, and improved braking power

Seems a good reference if you can make sense off all the scientifics http://mahonkin.com/~milktree/motorcycles/fork-oil.html

Sad.....I know if I were trafficking pot, I would represent with stickers all over my vehicle too. Stupidity.....it just got dumber

Spreak Engrish!

Man, thats some weird shit going on there.....if your cat isn't bringing you gifts, you obviously have a Russian Canadian ghost

Since she hasn't posted it up yet, here's the wife's new '13 300R

and nice upgrade from the 250. Capable little ride, congrats!

Cant say enough about these guys. Love all that they do http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LEDI5S-W2RU

Awesome skillset and killer playground!

^^^This

Agreed. People that dont curse should be tested for signs of mental instability and pedifilistic tendencies