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View Poll Results: Do you want keep bodiless rigs in Sportsman? | |||
No, they're too scary. | 44 | 17.32% | |
Hell Yes! | 210 | 82.68% | |
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10-30-2011, 01:58 PM | #101 | |
No idea what I'm doing Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Underground, CO
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One thing I think about is all the people that own a Frogger, Moonbuggy, Fastback, etc., that just crawl for fun, and don't attend comps. What if one day they decide to give a comp a try, they show up and are turned away because their truck is no longer legal? Aren't those casual crawlers just as important as a total outsider? What can be done to get the casual driver to show up and drive? Banning their rig isn't going to help. | |
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10-30-2011, 02:04 PM | #102 | |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Having fun again...
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10-30-2011, 02:04 PM | #103 | |
Suck it up! Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Arkansas
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Anyone ever think that some people who would like to go are either unwilling or incapable of traveling? Its not exactly cheap to take time off of work, drive or fly across the country, and stay in a motel for a few nights. Especially when we are talking about playing with toy trucks. People have jobs and families and other responsibilities that have a much higher priority. If we want more new drivers, we need to get the manufacturers involved and educate our otherwise ignorant LHS's. They are the ones most responsible for putting new rigs in new drivers' hands. We need to be sure that they are knowledgeable about their products and what it takes to be competitive. How many new drivers show up with RTR's with stick packs strapped to the top? How many of them look at our rigs and ask themselves what piece of crap did the hobby shop sell them? Most of the time when I go to a hobby shop and say the word "crawler", their eyes roll back in their head and they take on a sudden air of disinterest. That is where the greatest division of equality lies. | |
10-30-2011, 02:06 PM | #104 | |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: West Seneca
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I guess i just dont understand i dont know. Last edited by mindless; 10-30-2011 at 02:15 PM. | |
10-30-2011, 02:07 PM | #105 | |
Rock Stacker Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Greensburg, PA
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I know I am just a newbie but I don't see how running a body is going to bring more attention to a sportsman/comp event. I think showcasing what the class can do would. | |
10-30-2011, 02:23 PM | #106 | ||
I wanna be Dave Join Date: May 2007 Location: Taylors Falls just hanging with the MNRCRC crew.
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Is this the old chicken or egg debate? I'd say if we don't have solid affordable programs at the club level the Nats can expect more of the same. The 2.2 shafty can be a better workhorse than anything I can think of. Let's face it the interest and rebirth of the Sportsman class proves that. People are loving it just look a some of the rigs being built. It's not going to be a specific rookie entry class but they will be well taken care of. The thing that's exciting is it's looking like a open shafty class and that has many of us more exciting than we've been in years. The rookies aren't joining us thinking the should be winning on day one or leaving because they are intimidated, they are leaving us because we look like a big fat money pit. Retention of existing long term members is the bigger overall issue. Last edited by Stormin2u; 10-30-2011 at 02:25 PM. | ||
10-30-2011, 02:28 PM | #107 | |
Suck it up! Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Arkansas
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But still, the AX10 is a dated platform with old technology. I love Axial, I really do, but they need to step up their game here. If you buy one in the box and try to compete with it, you learn very quickly how much of it sucks and will have to be replaced. That is a horrible thing to realize once you've just dropped $400 on something. Had Losi's worm gear system worked better they would have murdered the AX10 in sales and drivers. If they could develop a rig with the same drivetrain but better tires, better chassis, and better geometry I would almost guarantee they would see an upkick in sales and we would see an upkick in activity. Last edited by Duuuuuuuude; 10-30-2011 at 02:31 PM. | |
10-30-2011, 02:30 PM | #108 | |
Rock Stacker Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: st.charles
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How is that helping to grow when your holding back design and set up!? | |
10-30-2011, 02:30 PM | #109 | |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Having fun again...
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National attendance and publicity of those fully attended events brings in new higher funding sponsors that in turn create new of the shelf products that brings fresh blood that back the upgrade vendors that support the forum you are arguing on. | |
10-30-2011, 02:32 PM | #110 |
RCC Addict Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Tyler, TX
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I don't even comp because I prefer scale. If I did do it again, I would go shafty as I like it better for many of the same reasons duuuuuuuude posted. I am no great driver but the XR was almost too easy for most of what we have around Houston. I voted keep bodiless. First off, I find it irritating when something as casual as crawling is commandeered but a large sanctioning body who decides what is good for everyone everywhere. The same thing seems to be creeping into the scale seen however we locally pretty much run our own way and ignore it. Rules should be basic and follow the K.I.S.S. principle. This keeps things nice and simple for all involved. Too many classes violates this too and further dilutes the field and participation. It just comes across as asinine to create so many rules that most local clubs won't follow anyway. The rules should be made in a way to be conforming to all local clubs needs and not just guys who run the nationals. As for newbies I don't think anyone new expects to kick ass at their first comps anyway. I sure didn't. I just drove and had fun. I didn't know what worked and what didn't and broke a lot of crap along the way. It's a hobby after all, not my day job. I guess that's why the political nature of the way the rules come about is so aggravating to me. Too much PC and BS and not enough get out and drive your pants off. |
10-30-2011, 02:33 PM | #111 | |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Having fun again...
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Like I stated before it seems it is flawed. I think.we need to reassess the decision. | |
10-30-2011, 02:34 PM | #112 |
Suck it up! Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Arkansas
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| That answers nothing. I wanted to know why national attendance was down, not how the RCC food chain operates...
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10-30-2011, 02:41 PM | #113 |
Rock Stacker Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: st.charles
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10-30-2011, 02:42 PM | #114 | |
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10-30-2011, 02:48 PM | #115 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: EvilCrawlerDesigns@comcast.net
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National attendance is directly related to the economy. After hitting 4 qualifiers earlier in the year, I simply couldn't drop the cash to go to Vegas. As for major sponsorship, the mess that occured at "worlds" in '09 put a serious blackjack on our hobby. We haven't had a major company company interested in putting up big money for an event since, and Proline hasn't supported crawling at all since. We have alot to prove to the big companies. We need to earn that respect back. |
10-30-2011, 02:51 PM | #116 | |
dnf Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Under a big fkn rock.
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but what chassis people drive was not what persuaded my going,or intimidated me when I got there. what persuaded me to go,was my competitive nature,and the influence of local diehards already planning to attend...... I still say the reason your attendance is down,is the economy.. had I been in the same financial shape then,as I am today.I would not have made any large comps.....people have prioraties,newb or not. Now,you may feel that running bodies only will grow the class,and there for national attendance....I still feel that logic is flawed,and is built on little to so basis,other than personal opinion. and my logic is that bodiless has been a boost in the arm for the sportsman class and is therefore good for it. what would you say has ignited the spark in sportsman "more" than bodiless chassis? why would you feel that banning a product that is so poulare with the diehards would somehow spark additional growth? no matter your answer,many wil feel its wrong,I know you did what you feel is best,but I and many others feel you are mistaken. I for one,wil not build my sportsman if I must run a body,I will sell the parts and build another moa. Our sportsman interests has peaked right now,this desicioun has had nothing but a negative affect,and that affects interest of diehards.....we are the majority of all members in our club...we spark the interest of news in our club.....not rules | |
10-30-2011, 02:56 PM | #117 |
Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Sydney
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Leave Sportsman as it is, at least for a couple of years. Constant changes and politics keeps people disinterested.
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10-30-2011, 02:59 PM | #118 | |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Having fun again...
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So their really is no rule change to said class. The rules are not implemented and the class does not exist yet. | |
10-30-2011, 03:08 PM | #119 |
Suck it up! Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Arkansas
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| So does that mean that there is a new national level class in the works?
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10-30-2011, 03:11 PM | #120 |
RCC Addict Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Lowell, Arkansas
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After thinking about this for a day or so, I'm going to vote for bodies on pro shafty. Why? 1. Because I'd venture to guess that roughly 70% of all MOA's are bodiless, maybe more. I'd like to see different some different looking rigs out on the course. I'm not meaning BJ vs. T1E, either. Having a body on a rig would make it somewhat easier to tell what class it runs in. Before someone says, "look at the axles, dummy", I'm talking about seeing a rig from 40 feet away, and/or from the side. 2. One can put the exact same suspension geometry on a chassis regardless if there is a body or not. So I don't really see that any creativity is stifled by having to run a body. Keep in mind this is the opinion of a cynical engineer, not an artist. And if the owner is an artist, then the body becomes a canvas on which to unleash those creative skills. |
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