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08-17-2007, 12:00 AM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Pittsburgh
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|  SG219 makes local paper about crawlers!! (not the police blotter)
As some of you know, I have been building rock crawlers for the last two years. Well I met a couple of people that were interested enough to interview me and put it in a local paper. The Pittsburgh City Paper has a large local circulation. Its in every Best Buy, record store, and a lot of restaurants and clubs and more! It is a free publication. Here is the link to the interview. http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gy...id=oid%3A34495 This is the coolest thing that has happened to me in a long time, if EVER. |
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08-17-2007, 12:34 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Lorain
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Its great that Rccrawling is catching on. (On another note, how about you stop by at R7R, post up anubis, and say hi. Just when you get that chance.  )
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08-17-2007, 01:44 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Westchester
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I can't say I'm surprised you're wearing a green shirt and that hat. You green weirdo. Glad to see you're still active in terms of crawling. And its great you were able to get some much needed information out for a small RC niche. Cheers, Torque |
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08-17-2007, 05:03 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Here
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Nice Mike...Great way to get news out about our hobby and Club. John |
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08-17-2007, 05:50 AM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Cincinnati
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Nice interview, just one suggestion though, and this is as much a racer problem as anything else. There is usually a lot of pride in the vehicle, and the inclination is to talk about how much you've spent (i'm guilty myself) but when someone sees 1000-1200 dollars they run away, you probably could have mentioned how cheaply you could get started, etc. Again, just a suggestion. At the local track, the 1/8 scale guys are always saying how they bought 500 dollar motors and 100 dollar servos and stuff to newer guys and that drives them away from the hobby instead of pulling them in.
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08-17-2007, 06:41 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Here
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The money we spend is because we want to not because we have to. I have seen some very "simple" designs place very well.... | |
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08-17-2007, 10:07 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: SoCal
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How'd you learn to do all this? Quote:
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08-17-2007, 10:57 AM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Pittsburgh
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The article is about me and MY hobby, not about YOUR site and YOUR publicity. About how I learned...It wasn't here. You really shouldn't think of yourself and your site that highly. Its really not that good. About mentioning money....look around this site. Its all about money. Charge for subscriptions, people throw a ton of money at these trucks. I really don't care about mentioning money. If people are REALLY interested, money isn't going to change their mind. If it does, they weren't interested enough to investigate. One more time... This article was about ME and MY hobby and what I'm involved in. | |
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08-17-2007, 11:06 AM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: MUSE, PA
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ehhh, i think the police blotter would of made a more interesting article.   it's great that you got the word out about crawling a bit, BUT.... (and i'm by no means a literary genius here...) the tone that the author had in the article seemed to be a bit on the smart-a$$ side. i may be reading it wrong, but some of the questions seemed like he truely didn't care, and was just getting his 1000 word (or however many they told him) piece done for the paper. but, that's just my $0.02... |
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08-17-2007, 11:08 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: One Legend.
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2 points: It's not his site. You're a conceited prick. |
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08-17-2007, 11:10 AM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: MUSE, PA
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08-17-2007, 11:14 AM
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| Newbie Join Date: May 2007 Location: Glendale
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08-17-2007, 11:23 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Albuquerque
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08-17-2007, 12:25 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Pittsburgh
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------------------------------ con·ceit·ed /Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[kuh  n-see-tid] - Show–adjective 1.having an excessively favorable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.-----------------------------Yes, I like to think highly of myself. As do you by thinking your above me by stating that comment. Again, about the money. I spent a lot on one truck over almost two years. I went all out, and got the best parts and made a lot more. My other truck barely cost me a couple hundred. What is wrong with all of you guys. The article has a fun aspect to it. It wasn't meant to publicize any site, or product. So many negative people here. The reason I posted it here was to show that I enjoy the hobby and want to share it. Nothing else. A simple "nice article" or "congrats" on making the paper. Would have been fine. Just because it doesn't promote your interest or cater to your liking, does not make it a bad thing. Last edited by sg219; 08-17-2007 at 12:30 PM. | |
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08-17-2007, 12:32 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: MUSE, PA
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so, CONGRATS ON MAKING THE F'ING PAPER..... even though, like i stated in my first post on this topic, i'm not sure that's an article i would want to be showing off to people. the author seemed to be a bit of a dick with the questions... | |
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08-17-2007, 12:41 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Pittsburgh
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That is fine. That is your opinion of the article. I did not write it. Just trying to be a nice person and post up something positive, then I get crapped on for doing so. I like my hobby and am very proud of it!! | |
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08-17-2007, 12:42 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Houston, TX
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Everyone's got a big ego behind a keyboard....SG, congrats on the article! It is good to see the general public interested... | |
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08-17-2007, 12:43 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Why should SG have mentioned someone else's site? This site is pretty much filled with flamers and assholes anyway I would have made it a point to not mention the site, anyone that came here would get driven away. Your not going to get into crawling for under $400. If someone was really interested they would find a way to save the money and get a crawler. As I said over at BP and like everyone else said congrats on the article. |
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08-17-2007, 12:50 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Connecticut
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That's cool about getting rc crawling out there to people that might not know what it is, but that interviewer seemed like a prick! Just from reading his questions/responses make it seem like he didn't want to be there.
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08-17-2007, 12:52 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: May 2006 Location: Arlington, VA
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Nothing wrong with mentioning the site for people wanting to learn more about RC crawlers.
Last edited by Thorsteenster; 08-17-2007 at 12:54 PM. |
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