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bandit · 12-09-2005, 10:52 AM

This is just a simple question, I was thinking about this the other day. I got into R/C because I like to put things together and take them apart, so I love kits over RTR's. I think that is one of the reasons I got into R/C because I can build and rebuild my vehicles, and when they work and you can drive them around it is a release.

dentguy92 · 12-09-2005, 11:23 AM

I do R/C so I can spend all my money, and have my wife yell at me!!!!

PoPRC · 12-09-2005, 12:39 PM

dentguy92 Wrote:I do R/C so I can spend all my money, and have my wife yell at me!!!!

I here Dat! I use money orders. I got into RC because I love racing and I cant afford a real racecar. Plus it gives me something to do with my oldest son. Yeah its partly an excuse cause he isnt nearly as into it as I am. I also like the mechanical aspect of it.

**snakebite46** · 12-09-2005, 12:45 PM

I enjoy racing them. I orginally got interested when a buddy of mine told me about his Clod while we were drinking at the bar. Told me about the T-maxx, next thing you know, I got an e-bay account and bought a used sportmaxx. Cant afford a 1:1 racer, lus I'd probally kill myself in it anyways. Came damn close when I had my 98 Cobra.....lol.

***Mr. Tune*** · 12-09-2005, 12:58 PM

I got into from my friends. Discovered RC racing and never looked back Smile

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slim · 12-09-2005, 01:31 PM

My dad and step brother visited newberrys when it was outdoor only.
they ended up with lx pros. at the time i didnt know they had them. one day they were out running them and put the tx in my hand and thats all she wrote..."must... have....one" Smile

at the time i was competing in car audio and was pretty much undefeated, i am very competitive and it got to the point where it was no fun winning , that and 1 maybe 2 shows a month sucked. soooo i tried to sell off some stuff, when my bud said he had 2 tc3's one was nitro 2 speed with a cvr .15 sick FAST! i ended up selling that for a lx pro 1/8th scale... that was 2 years ago this month. i started taking the tc3 elec. to a indoor track. they didnt have many tcs and i actually like running the oval with it. i eventually sold that and got a KSG pan car to race there. for the rest of the winter. as spring came i started to get the lx pro going. my first race ever i won a B main in peoria. after that it was newberrys every sunday. bout 1/2 way thru the summer i bought a hyper 7 pro. man i thought i was unstoppable with a Pro kit ( LOL ) come time for LH dec race last year ( first race ever at LH ) i drove it there, and soon found out how bad that car sucked. if i couldnt get it to steer at LH, there has to be a prob. bout febuary or so i was on a mission for a diff car. TTR Maayhem MUGEN.... my bud pete had already got the xb8 and i liked how the car was easily adjustabe... so i got one for 425 2 races old... sorry this is more like a bio than anything else but im bored at work lol....

so i guess i say i am a competition junkie. i like to see how i stack up against other people in skill. i have met alot of goals in R/C that i set for my self. some of them are, To be in THE SHOW with sonny and the other hot shoes, and not cuz there is 1 main lol. I like to be known around the area and have lots of good friends, to be good enuf to have a sponsor or 5 Smile

. and to be good enuf in traffik to where people want to drive with me. The only goal i have left is to get on the xray B team.... i been hounding rc america but have not got a answer....oh well....stereo was fun, but winning was based on an opinion not fact, so that was weird, but RC... if you win, you win, hands down. thats why i am sticking with it. racing street cars is dangerious and possibly harmful you you and others... not to mention costly! this gets my fix of racing cars, and no one gets hurt cept maybe the marshals where jessie Wolkenheim is at, oh and i juess Bruce now too....

Sh1nn3r · 12-09-2005, 02:22 PM

I'm in it for the women. Chicks dig the long ball.

**Tex** · 12-09-2005, 03:01 PM

I've always been in it ever since a little kid. Started off with Nikko/Tyco, then went to the "Lobo/Lobo2" then off to a Kyosho Raider in '93. I remember having RC mags (books actually) in like '82-'83 and drooling all over them. Completely trashed the Raider by '94 and bought a Traxxas Bandit RTR in '96. Played with that for a couple years around the house then bought a stampede. Had that about a year then bought a T-Maxx 2.5 (first one from the Aurora HobbyTown). That was like November '02. Then in '04 I started racing competatively and that's all I do really now, although it's fun to play and bash occassionaly. The adrenaline rush during an actual race is what keeps me racing instead of bashing.

I have been less of a tinker-er than I used to be which is a good and bad think. I definitely used to spend more money when I had tinkeritous.

**cemeb4dk** · 12-09-2005, 03:33 PM

So I could meet all of you :puke:

dentguy92 · 12-09-2005, 03:39 PM

owwww thats so nice

**DAVEC-NITRO-RS4** · 12-09-2005, 04:06 PM

I got into RC because I couldn't afford all this cool stuff when I was 12. Line control planes was all we ever had. I think I got a hobbysite spam email that lead me to the current state of RC cars and I got in with a used RS4. Searching for info about it I found Chitown and got more educated about trucks and racing. That caused the truck bug. One Revo later and $1000 less in the wallet......and worth every penny so far!!

**firesprink281** · 12-09-2005, 04:21 PM

i was told i needed a hobby.

squirrel · 12-09-2005, 05:01 PM

firesprink281 Wrote:i was told i needed a hobby.

ditto!!! alright heres my story! i was sitting at work talking to tony(towshen) about r/c cars. because i was playing with on of my many zip zaps, we were talking about price and how i couldn't justify dropping $400 + on a new car so he sold me his 4-tec(boy was i naive). after that i'm where i'm at today! still naive to.

Eracer76 · 12-09-2005, 05:06 PM

Just like Gabe, Ive been into it since I was a kid with the Nikko/Tyco's...then I moved up to the Tamiya Grasshopper, then a Tamiya Frog, then I sold them and took some years off, then got into it again with a Traxxas Stampede, then a Nitro Rustler, took a couple more years off, then got into it again with the HPI Savage 25, Losi LST, and now my LSP Smile

I'd have to say that Im in it for the racing thrill more then anything...
Last year right before x-mas, I took my 6 month old Savage to Leisure for the first time on a practice day....I practiced a couple more times before I ran my first race and I was instantly hooked, I went almost every weekend and I kept upgrading parts, upgrading trucks and so on Big Grin

Racing my 1:1 is fun also, but R/C racing doesnt cost as much, that and I can actually win at R/C racing Wink

IMO it seems that "the more you spend, the faster you go" dosent factor in quite as much as it does in 1:1 racing.

mikeh · 12-09-2005, 09:38 PM

I loved building plastic models and launching rockets. A friend showed me a Tamiya catalog in 1981 (5th grade maybe?) with the hobby level r/c. I could not believe it! Build it and the DRIVE it!! So I got into the hobby

1981 Tamiya Ralt Hart F2. Never run, I did not realize it did not come with the remote.
1983 Tamiya Super Champ. Lots of fun, beat the tar out of it and gave it to my cousin.
1985 Tamiya Hornet. Played with it and sold it.
1987 Kyosho Ultima & Kyosho Ultima pro. Still have the original Ultima.

Then came school at N.C. State and DePaul, Wife, Job, life in the city, house in the burbs, and lo and behold I rediscover the hobby with the Traxxas Stampede. Gabe and John and Rusty Savage and I and others met up in Naperville in 2002? for some on road bashing. and it lead to Woodridge, Berwyn, Monster Jam and to present. With my Savage 4.6, HPI RS4 MT BL, and now a friggin Dirt Demon. Will it ever end? No. Now my son has a hopped up Mini-t and we have another in the oven. But at least I sold my sailboat!

Ponch · 12-09-2005, 11:13 PM

-sigh- since everybody is doing this I may as well...Started out with the Nikko/Tyko etc..Then one day a kid across the street, on his birthday, showed up with a duratrax max st pro....Man that thing got trashed! I got hooked, and I think it was in 2000, er christmas 99 I got my Maxx... .15 With the skinny azz arms, and the uber kewl flamejob body. That got torn apart, busted, f'd up so bad it wasn't even funny. I still have the engine to this day. The f/r diff's and arms etc got used on a used emaxx chassis with esc off ebay for $110, and then had to send in the esc because of 'water damage'.....Electrics and snow don't mix. Sold the emaxx. Got a mini-t. Then I got my Savage, last christmas, so that's less than a year I had it. I got a duratrash max st for free off of kyle, and run that into the ground until I broke the crankcase on it. Now the chassis is used in several trucks, including destroy_my_revo_15's revo, my mini t and the savage. Sold the mini t, bought a revo. Traded the savage for a k2. And here I am today, with my Revo and K2.

destroy_my_revo_15 · 12-09-2005, 11:46 PM

well a few kids that lived around my house had them electric st's and i was hooked instantly. i had never seen something that small go that fast. it was amazing. then once i got my duratrash evader they got nitro and once again i was amazed and wanted nitro. somewhere inbetween i met revo2k and his maxx. then i upgraded to nitro 1/8 scale buggy. that was kinda a bad choice. i didnt to to much homework on it and ended up geting the cheapest one i could buy at the time (mom was paying) and i ended up with an ofna mbx pro. then about 2 years later i bought my revo. and it has been like 9 mos that ive had my revo and nothing but good. thats my story

Ponch · 12-10-2005, 12:03 AM

lol John...popcorn is the only reason we're friends now hehehe....'Woah dude, you got an evader!?I have a t-maxx! Mom, can I go to John's house???'

Heh, the best thing I got out of boy scouts was a bashing buddy.

destroy_my_revo_15 · 12-10-2005, 12:24 AM

:bustingup good times, good times

RobH · 12-10-2005, 12:29 AM

Always had nikko/tyko RCs, a guy I knew got a HPI stadium truck about 4 or 5 years ago, he was flyin threw the yards and stuff (I can still remember the smell), a couple days later, he got a T-Maxx (not sure what gen it was, prolly pro15) and we were tryin to get it to wheelie, and he let me run it... fun stuff. Asked my grandparents for one... no.... a couple years later, sophmore year at BHS, I get into Production Technology 1.... There is a semester long course in that class for RC in production tech 2, but in prod. tech 1, we got to run the t-maxx's once, tell my grandparents about it, a few days later I find myself breaking in my very own T-Maxx.

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Now, a little over a year later, with a full supermaxx.

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In a couple weeks, semester 2 of production tech 2 starts... who ever I team up with is gonna have it pretty easy as long as we don't run into diff problems :bustingup

nitrosmoker · 12-10-2005, 01:00 AM

I got into it for the fun of it, needed a hobby, my first was the lightning buggy, then the midnight pumpkin. My first nitro was the pede in 2001, ever since then, been smoking nitro!

bandit · 12-10-2005, 01:27 AM

Well I guess i never stated when I begun, I had a radio shack sonic buggy as my first r/c, then in 92 I bought a RC10 Championshio Ed, off of a friend. it needed to be rebuilt and it took me like 8 months (cause I was only 13 and did have a job) but I did all by myself. I was very proud of it. My folks where so impressed by my dermanation that Christmas they bought me a RC10T Team Truck, and I haven't looked back since. It is my drug.

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