rmdesignworks
I wanna be Dave
This is great...great rule...Now I need to call all of my team drivers and quite a few of my customers and tell them they cant compete anymore or they have to change classes. Seems to me when people get together (behind closed doors) for the betterment of others they seldom take into consideration the wants and desires of those other's. Welcome to capitalism. I design test and build all of the parts I make and most of my parts are used by guys who run Sportsman or they run it as well as Pro. They have wasted their money on my product and that doesn't work for me at all...not one little bit. Nothing in a hobby should make you unhappy..and this just infuriates me. All that being said I designed my Vulture XR chassis to have a cab for bodiless or to use matching shock tabs for a bodied rig...but I can tell you this...I wont run a body. The Grappler has an 8" tunnel ram hood and I wouldnt build a rock crawler with the radiators and fans mounted on top like a Score/Tecate racer. I do like the Parma x-citer body but even as small as it is it needs to trimmed to a bodiless dimension to clear my Rovers and suspension. There are other bodies too but a great deal of the "Comp" bodies out there dont look real to me...So thats a dog that dont hunt (as previously mentioned). Until today I didnt give this ruling a whole lot of thought...I knew it was coming thanks to a heads up in a parkinglot at about midnight almost a year ago.
Sportsman needs to be left alone..the rules work well for the class and the drivers new and existing. Here locally Ive seen new guys show up at comps with basically box stock stick pack rigs thinking they could crawl cuz thats what the LHS told them..."you can take this out there on the rocks and crawl with those guys with this truck right out of the box....that'll be $349.99 please..." $800.00 later they can finally compete. If you want to attract more people to the sport then push the LHS's to stop lying to the new guys and Dad's buying their kids a toy. It sickens me to see a new guy all pissed off cuz his rig wont crawl a line that everyone else's rig will and he says..." the guy at "so and so" hobby shop didnt say anything about needing more parts or better ones." Unethical sales tactics and relentless "better than thou" attitudes are whats killing the hobby not the type of chassis' being run...if you wanna keep the new guys coming back or even coming in to begin with then DQ drivers when they cause a scene at a comp...or throw their rig 20 feet...or boycott the LHS that continually sells the RTR as a comp ready rig.
I voted for bodiless.
But regardless...it should have been put to the masses to avoid all of this to begin with...poor leadership IMHO.
Sportsman needs to be left alone..the rules work well for the class and the drivers new and existing. Here locally Ive seen new guys show up at comps with basically box stock stick pack rigs thinking they could crawl cuz thats what the LHS told them..."you can take this out there on the rocks and crawl with those guys with this truck right out of the box....that'll be $349.99 please..." $800.00 later they can finally compete. If you want to attract more people to the sport then push the LHS's to stop lying to the new guys and Dad's buying their kids a toy. It sickens me to see a new guy all pissed off cuz his rig wont crawl a line that everyone else's rig will and he says..." the guy at "so and so" hobby shop didnt say anything about needing more parts or better ones." Unethical sales tactics and relentless "better than thou" attitudes are whats killing the hobby not the type of chassis' being run...if you wanna keep the new guys coming back or even coming in to begin with then DQ drivers when they cause a scene at a comp...or throw their rig 20 feet...or boycott the LHS that continually sells the RTR as a comp ready rig.
I voted for bodiless.
But regardless...it should have been put to the masses to avoid all of this to begin with...poor leadership IMHO.
