Posts Tagged ‘rc4wd’
Adventures can happen anywhere. Nothing will give you more fun in the sand, dirt, snow, or mud than the Trail Finder 2. Part scale truck, part adventurer, your TF2 is ready for your mud kicking trail-loving lifestyle!
RC4WD is at the SEMA show to check out all the new items for the aftermarket truck market. While here we thought why not give Mickey Thompson a cool truck to display in there booth.
We all know RC4WD puts out the most scale items in R/C rock crawling, but honestly with such scale looks its hard for parts to be very capable, especially tires, well RC4WD has been listening and they have a new super soft tire compound out. The buzz around the water cooler is they work really well too.
Starting out RC4WD has produced two tires with the new compound, both class 1 sized tires. Before class 1 was for street trucks where looks out weighed performance, now it is about looks, and performance.
For the first time at Vanquish products La Guerra en Rocas Rojo there was a scale event, but not just any scale event. This was a scale endurance race covering a lot of terrain all over the red rocks area in Morrison, Colorado. Read the rest of this entry »
Tom (Racer4life) has been with RC4WD for years, I met him at Scale Nationals this year and knew it was time to learn a little bit more about him and RC4WD. If you haven’t heard of RC4WD before you are missing out. They make the coolest scale products around and some pretty good comp parts as well.
The RC4WD Nordics 2011
Nordic RC Rock Crawling Championship
The second Nordic Championship in RC Rock Crawling takes place in Finland June 18th-19th.
I met Dave (@tw!ll) at scale nationals he was a stand up guy with some cool products for the scale crowd. I managed to get some information about him and his business, this is what he had to say.
Muddauber7 (Matt) of Dinky R/C has been making chassis’, styrene parts and everything in between for the rock crawling community. He is without a doubt one of the most versatile vendors on rccrawler.com.
For all those scale enthusiasts out there, RC4WD has released a 1.55 and 2.2 version of their Mickey Thompson Baja Claw TTC tire. The 1.9 version of the tire was released a few months ago. After the 1.9 version came out, the community wanted more. Some images released at a trade show a short time ago gave us a glimpse of these newer versions of the tire, but finally they are out!
This years Scale Nationals competitors have been chosen by the members of rccrawler.com. With 615 forum members voting for 10 trucks it was a close battle. 22 different trucks entered the drawing this year to see if their rig would get voted in.
RC4WD’s new Interco 1.55″ Irok Scale Tires and 2.2″ TSL Boggers are available now through an exclusive early release at TGN Distributing. TGN has a limited supply of these hot new tires so hurry over to TGN now to get some while you can.
“A TGN EXCLUSIVE—RC4WD was on the baja scene early with the first production billet rims. RC4WD has a successful background in the r/c crawling industry and have used their resources to produce many great products for the large scale industry. TGN is proud to be the exclusive worldwide distributor for the entire line of quality RC4WD products.”
RC4WD has a commitment to the RC Hobby and Sport, and with that, we would like to welcome John “Rckcrwlr” Thornton as Team Manager for US and International Drivers, recently handled by Tom Allen. With John’s experience, we are looking forward to him taking the team to the next level. He started in the hobby over 10 years ago and has a broad interest in everything RC from Helicopters to Crawling to Scale to Short Course, and recently Large Scale. Read the rest of this entry »
RC4WD surprises you again. This time teaming up with Viking Offroad to bring out some more great scale items.
The new Viking Offroad Fairlead is all you need to top of your scale build. It is a replica of the 350 Series offered by Viking. The Fairlead is CNC machined aluminum with a smooth black finish. The Viking name plate tops it off and send it over the edge.
Viking Offroad is a registered trademarks of the Viking Offroad company. The Viking Offroad logo and Viking head logo are property of Viking Offroad.
RC4WD introduces the all new Mickey Thompson Baja Claw TTC 1.9″ offroad tire.
RC4WD has teamed up with Mickey Thompson tires to bring you this huge new offroad tire. As RC4WD promised, we have brought out several licensed tires and this is only the beginning. The new Baja Claw TTC, is a tried and true offroad tire and stand in at 4.75″ tall. This true replica of the 1:1 Baja Claw TTC tire was special built for Top Truck Challenges. Are you ready for the Challenge? Read the rest of this entry »
