04-06-2021, 10:41 AM | #381 | |
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04-06-2021, 11:23 AM | #382 |
Newbie Join Date: Mar 2021 Location: out-n-about
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Disconnected socially, digitally, and not competitive. I plan on getting an MOA soonish and driving until I know it. At that point if I hear about one I may enter to see how my skill stacks up against others' skill. However the reality is that I tinker too much and will probably never have a vehicle that can qualify for a contest. |
04-06-2021, 03:26 PM | #383 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Tri-cities, WA
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If you get caught up in keeping up with the jonses then you're going to have a bad time no matter what you do. Myself I've always hated scale comps because the nerds putting them on required 30 pieces of flare to enter. They burned out and now I'm putting them on this summer. No scale points, no bs just show up with a rig that meets basic body and tire specs and have fun. |
06-06-2021, 08:05 PM | #384 | |
RCC Addict Join Date: May 2005 Location: Auburn, WA
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As far as why I personally don't do comps: Right now anyway I can't justify the cost of buying back into a 1/10 scale crawler that would be competitive especially when I can't just step out the back door and run it to test and tune at home. My crawler collection at this point is just a handful of mini scalers that I can run on my small home course. I'm not aware of anyone local running comps for 1/24 scale stuff. Another thing is that it seems like they're all organized on facebook and I don't facebook. | |
06-06-2021, 10:33 PM | #385 | |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Tri-cities, WA
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06-07-2021, 08:11 AM | #386 |
Slow is the new Fast Join Date: Nov 2013 Location: Winterpeg
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To my knowledge, we don’t have any comps locally. Though even if we did it’s hard to say whether or not I would enter. I go crawling with my kids, so on a social level that’s how it serves me. They are teenagers now so anything I can do with them that they enjoy is a bonus. Miraculously they still think my truck building hobby is cool. When I am out by crawling by myself I am typically using RC as way of being busy in a beautiful environment. For me this usually means quiet and devoid of people. Likely the opposite of a comp environment. I do a lot of my crawling over the Precambrian shield in lake country where it is rocky and forested. I feel pretty fortunate to have a cabin in the middle of it all. Where I go would definitely be considered remote. Just the fact that cell phones don’t connect for 30 miles is likely enough to keep people away. |
09-15-2021, 10:24 AM | #387 | |
RCC Addict Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Tyler, TX
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When we ran scale locally at the time, you had to meet certain criteria, no scale points, and we had a blast. Basically body had to look scale, tires had to be scale replica and 1.9 (no pin tires etc), and ladder frame chassis, and no MOA. Everything else could run what was basically unlimited. I have always hated winching, no interest there, no thanks, just too tedious for me. Some things down translate well from 1:1 to RC and vise versa. Last edited by TexasSP; 09-15-2021 at 10:27 AM. | |
09-16-2021, 01:38 AM | #388 | |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jun 2020 Location: The Big Island
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Now I'm back to building a strictly performance-oriented crawler. | |
04-21-2023, 08:00 AM | #389 |
Newbie Join Date: Mar 2023 Location: Flushing
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I enjoy going to comps when I can make it work with my busy schedule. Although some comps I dont go to because I dont agree with their rule choices. Instead of complaining about them or trying to bend the rules to compete. Another big thing that keeps me from going to certain comps falls under the rule thing but its when they are timed runs. To me crawling is not about being fast, its all about being technical.
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10-21-2023, 11:47 PM | #390 |
Newbie Join Date: May 2021 Location: Linden, Alberta, Canada
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We don't have any competitions near us. Anything would be 1-1/2 hours away or more and we just don't hear about them until its too late to plan the trip.
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