Please read.

[crunky]

i respect the O.G.'s
"thumbsup"

 

[carver]

"thumbsup"Amen

 

[dieselfuel]

god damn kamikaze, i couldn't have said it any better! we've had a couple of local guys totally bail on crawling because their ARTR AX10 took too much work to be able to beat all the MOAs...

i agree with a couple of the guys here, this happens to a lot of hobbies in their infancy. when i played tournament style paintball it was the same way. i started off with a mechanical gun that we upgraded to electronic, added all our own parts and mods... now you can buy a winning gun for less that $1k and the sport is flooded with 13-17yr old kids with daddy's credit cards. the very reason i quit playing...

 

[Mr.Slave]

well written, unfortunately i don't think your target audience has the patience to read all that.

 

[caymin last]

When i was a kid, I must have built a dozen kit planes, balsa wood frame, covered with tissue paper, with each wing rib, stringer, tail section and almost every part having to be cut out, trimmed, sanded and glued together, dope and fuel proofing, paint ect. it took at least a month, working every spare moment to get one done. That was the fun part, my brother and I would crash them and we would repair/rebuild, till it was too far gone to bother.
Every rc vehicle I own has been stripped down to every last screw, at least once, most have hand made parts and a few are total frankenstein creations, made from a mish-mash of different parts, I wouldn't have it any other way.

 

[666]

This should be posted in the Axial section....

 

[DISTURBIN' tha PEACE]

Well put Jeff.

It's the "rtr" syndrome, the "I want it now" that has become so prevalant. They cry about thier $300 RTR crawler breaking after 10 minutes, but 5 years ago, you couldn't even smell a crawler for $300.

 

[bbyrd22]

"thumbsup".

Well said.

Clod's and TLT's. The good ol' days. I still have clod tires, super roosters and kyosho magnet mayhems.

I say an old school class. "thumbsup"

 

[dezfan]

Yup, RTR mentality has ruined so many aspect of RC, crawling is just the latest victim.

I HATE RTRs!:evil:

 

[ROLANDROCKSHOP]

amen brotha!!
preach it from the roof tops!!

i get soooo
many people that
whine and complain at the store
about how there $400 tmaxx otr jato
broke.
and then complain about us charging them to
fix it?? wtf.

learn to wrench or go fly a kite!

 

[dieselfuel]

I HATE RTRs!:evil:

agreed!

 

[Fishmaxx]

Well put Jeff.

It's the "rtr" syndrome, the "I want it now" that has become so prevalant. They cry about thier $300 RTR crawler breaking after 10 minutes, but 5 years ago, you couldn't even smell a crawler for $300.

I agree with everything Jeff says, and along with the "I want it now" crowds comes their over blown expectations.

Expectations that are often created from company hype...... like misleading ads, company produced you tube videos, and driver endorsements.

The bitchn is often a monster the companies created on their own.

 

[Ripperfi]

"You know what really grinds my gears?" Peter Griffin

 

[Kamikaze]

well written, unfortunately i don't think your target audience has the patience to read all that.

Holy crap........I am going to agree with Mr. Slave.......:shock:"thumbsup"

 

[CD13]

AMEN Brother "thumbsup"

 

[chip cross]

Very well put Jeff. "thumbsup"

 

[hvydty1]

Wow, just, WOW. Truer words have never been spoken. Now you got me wanting to go drill and tap some more links, fab up some new upper link mounts on the TLT's and narrow some more pede rims. Well said!

 

[ROCKEDUP RICKY]

well written, unfortunately i don't think your target audience has the patience to read all that.

Most of them can't read or search.

 

[JeremyH]

Nice!

I actually miss those days! Building a crawler is my favorite part of this hobby....

 

[Code454]

Holy crap........I am going to agree with Mr. Slave.......:shock:"thumbsup"

people are agreeing with mr.slave lol, no seriuosly it is true