Anyone into RC Motorcycles?

[Harley]

Looking at trying one out, the Thunder Tiger electric looks decent.

Anyone have any input?

 

[jbrandt]

there's a nitro Ducati 999R that looks pretty sweet... I forget who makes it, but it looks fast!

 

[FrankyRizzo]

I have always wanted to do a super fast brushless one.

 

[Thorsteenster]

I want to pick up one of those Kyosho H.O.R.'s.
I have a couple of the Futaba radio kits for em.

 

[JasonInAugusta]

I had a HOR in Korea, finally sold it. Cool but brittle. All the hard plastic body parts get destroyed when you run it.

I had the FM1-E as well.

Fun bike but you really need to have an open area to get used to driving it. You initiate a turn with steering and control how tight the turn is with throttle. Let off the throttle for a tighter turn, apply more throttle for a wider turn.

www.crazynutracing.com has tons of hop-ups for them.

 

[Harley]

there's a nitro Ducati 999R that looks pretty sweet... I forget who makes it, but it looks fast!

Thunder Tiger makes it as well, it is the same bike just nitro *cough* ghey *cough*

I have always wanted to do a super fast brushless one.

Thats where I would love to end up, I have just heard how hard they are to control at first so i figure I should start slow.

I had a HOR in Korea, finally sold it. Cool but brittle. All the hard plastic body parts get destroyed when you run it.

Fun bike but you really need to have an open area to get used to driving it. You initiate a turn with steering and control how tight the turn is with throttle. Let off the throttle for a tighter turn, apply more throttle for a wider turn.

www.crazynutracing.com has tons of hop-ups for them.

Seems like the HOR's have been around forever, but I hear the same things you have said.

I really think I need one of these

 

[Twist]

I've got a couple of kyosho bikes that I really enjoy. I even put my hacker b20 short can in one. The tranny didnt hold up long but doing burnouts while rolling was worth it. They make a lot of aftermarket parts for them. I think with the aluminum gears and tranny case it would hold up fine. I would like to try the direct steering mod and see how they drove then.

Here is where you can get tons of spare parts to trick them out.

http://www.hobbyetc.com/cgi-bin/catalog2.cgi?man=hot&car_id=56&cat=all

 

[FrankyRizzo]

I have a Ricky Carmichael dirt bike that I would like to deck out. I have seen some cool stuff available for them as well.

 

[Kermit]

I own an old Graupner FZR 400. With it being a 1/5 scale, the normal 1/10 touring circuits are a bit too tight, so I would rather go for the H.O.R. Just a shame the Kyosho agents here think there is no market for it and won't import them.:-(

 

[twisted]

theres that new dirt bike out too.

 

[jbrandt]

My wife got me one of those Radio Shack specials for my birthday a few years back. That thing was sweet! Until 10 minutes later I broke the forks off!