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  1. babylon
    No impact on me, But think it is ridiculous that ModelSport or any other shop is still closed, Money is being unnecessarily taken out of the Furlough Scheme, Just cos something is there, Doesn't mean you have to use it. This is all getting a bit silly, There are 66 Million people in the UK, 2 died of Covid-19 yesterday.
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    If this your defence for Traxxas then it's way off an naive, Under this criteria the Revo would have never seen the light of day, And Schumacher would be the only ones running the ball diff, Also under this criteria Traxxas wouldn't have a Patent to there name having never coming up with any original ideas of there own.
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    This is all easily fixed, We come away from RTR, Which it never is, And go back to kit, Why in gods name they can't even give you the option by throwing all the RTR parts into a box and just saying,'There you go, Fill ya boots'. As has been said, There starting to take the rise now, QC and testing seems to be an afterthought across the board more and more.
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    To be fair, In this day and age, None of the premium brands should have problems with diffs, The scale is not new, If your gonna sell something that's 6s ready and RTR out the box, Then not being shimmed to withstand 6s is unacceptable, If your designing, Manufacturing and selling 6s capable 1/8 trucks, You should know what parts are under the most stress and prone to failure.
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    Think the cycle is coming around again, That one were I fall out of interest with RC Cars and move onto something else for a while, Fancy giving Full Suspension Mountain Biking a go, I'm still pretty well built and fit for my age, Could call it a mid life crises, But I'm not into 1:1 cars.

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    2. bertberr

      bertberr

      I've always been into MTB, ever since I bought my first one - a Muddy Fox Courier (anyone remember those?) when I was about 14 yrs old.  But like RC, I go through phases of hardly riding my current bike, a steel hardtail I built up a few years ago, before going head long back into it again and hardly missing a days riding... Go figure. 

       

      What about a decent pre-owned MTB off of ebay or FB, or BikeRadar, Singletrack World etc?  Get more for your hard earned.

    3. Stormbringer

      Stormbringer

      What about a Decathlon bike good value and decent spec for cheaper 

    4. babylon

      babylon

      I have been checking eBay, And I may go that route, Second hand doesn't phase me really, And there is a lot about, As for Decathlon, Check my previous post, Honestly, There is nothing out there on the web for anything decent, You get this for Halfords

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      This for Decathalon

       

       

      DUE TO HIGH DEMAND, WE ARE CURRENTLY SUSPENDING ONLINE DELIVERY FOR BIKES. WE ARE NOW INCREASING THE AVAILABILITY OF OUR BIKES IN OUR STORE SHOWROOMS WHILE CONTINUING WITH OUR CLICK AND COLLECT SERVICE. THIS IS A TEMPORARY MEASURE AND WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE AND UNDERSTANDING.

       

      You get This from Calibre,Wiggle has nothing under 2 grand, And little over, Chain Reaction are the same,Whyte bikes appear to have nothing at any price,

       

       

       

  6. babylon
    There is a principle to be had here, I don't think anyone makes a 6s that's really worth 100 quid, I know that some will say that there's is, But no 22v battery going in a model car can be worth £100, Would I get more fun out of a 4s costing 50 or 60 quid than the Turnigy's I have costing 25 quid, I doubt it, Or I can't see how. What I'm saying is if your happy to pay £100, Then so be it, But if your happy to pay £100, Then tell them to stick there lipo's were the sun don't shine, Have a look around and take your choice, Just don't give in to extortion.
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    I just stuck a 5000 6s in my basket and got two postage options, Both were the same Parcel Farce, But one was £35 and the other was 21, Funny thing is that the £21 option had a heavier allowance, Shows how things have changed, Cost about 7 quid the last time I bought 4 X 4s. Not sure how Parcel Farce get away with that, Don't take that, The delivery contract is between Parcel Farce and HobbyKing, Not you and Parcel Farce, This is a simple case of having you over, I would refuse delivery, You let them get away with stuff like that once.
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    Roll on the no deal. Just imagine how much of that 750 Billion EU rescue fund would have been down to us, Sorry, But Italy and Spain are in line for the bulk share of £390 Billion worth of Non-Repayable grants, And don't think the likes of France won't try to pilfer off there fair share, No one loves a subsidy more than the French. Are people seriously saying they want to be part of that, The EU are all giving themselves high fives cos they come to this great agreement, Just wait till the EU taxation system that we kept blocking is passed and Brussels start Taxing countries on top of there own taxes to pay it all back, Cos it has to be payed back by someone, And we should count ourselves lucky it's not gonna be us.
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    True, But it's been pretty stable for the last 2 years, And today it's 1.30 against the Dollar, Best it's been since January, Wish it was that good when I got mine at the start of the year. Can't blame them for it, I just think it's opportunism, Lot's of people were home and bored and buying stuff they didn't need just to stop the boredom, They'll charge what they think they can get away with, And Traxxas have been getting away with it for years, Now Arrma is starting to take some of there glory, Why do we think they will be any different, Especially now there part of HH. COVID is the excuse that will just keep giving.
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    Needed a RX pack for the Nitro and HobbyKing was the cheapest even with postage, So rather than wast the 500g postage weight, I added another pack, and made the rest up with a selection of grub screws, They were only 1p for 10, So got 180 for 18p.
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    The Tamiya Monster Beetle is the same as the Blackfoot just with a Beetle body, The Granite is Arrma's Monster truck thing, The TriTon is Corally's version, The chassis is very much in the same vain as the Stampede and the ECX range of trucks. TriTon ECX Stampede
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    But you asked pretty much the same question in your Basher Model thread were your limit was £250. So your saying that you have as much as £450 to play with now, You have to take into consideration that Monster trucks are generally just basic chassis with big wheels, But it still really comes down to the Stampede, Granite,Blackfoot /Monster Beetle or TriTon, The Kyosho is out cos it's over priced, And a bit too complicated with parts I doubt are gonna be easy to get or transfer from other models, But that's about it, That pretty much is your list of options, Pick the one you like the look off and have that, There all pretty much of a muchness.
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    Flying Cars Interview

    babylon commented on Nick's article in Interviews

    Watched it the other night, Switched it off at one point, Then thought, I'll finish it, Rubbish, Cringe worthy corn of the highest order.
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    Sorry for being blunt, But have we not been here before, Can you not just get the Traxxas Bigfoot and be done, That's without doubt the one you want and the itch you have to scratch, So just scratch it.
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    Set of cheap drivers from Amazon, I'll take one for the boys, £10.50, Worth a gamble, And really saving on the Scene Tax.
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    Like the who the bag is packed by, At least you can grass the ones that left out your two parts.😀
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    I'm with TUG on this one, There not Semtex(Mi6 is gonna pick that up), Just don't stick a nail through it with a hammer and your be alright, There robust little things, Look at the sort of things we do to them, The amount they get chucked about in cars, Dropped, I've still never seen one go up in the flesh, I even put said nail through an old one and got nothing, Was well disappointing.
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    Wera, Proper tools.
  19. babylon
    HPI are still going, In a limited form at the moment, Parts for the Flux are easy to source, All over the Bay as so many were sold.
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    You never used to be able to get Redcat at all over here, Still can't really, Even ModelSport seem a bit hit and miss on what and when they carry there stuff, Shame really, They have a pretty nice selection.
  21. babylon
    Day of between shifts so thought I would check out and see if the engine starts on the CRT eBay pickup, I new it had been moved on because of the OWB in the engine, It just all adds up, So dropped the back off and gave it a WD40 clear out and a light sandpaper of the RotoStart shaft, All back together, And first blip on the starter wand it fired up, but not ticking over and way to much oil, Found base settings and away it went, Sweet as nut, Needs a tune but it's almost there. Could feel the diffs had next to nothing in them in the way of oil or grease, It was at this point my reason for it be moved on were all but confirmed, As we all know, RotoStart motors have higher engine mounts, So to use a starter box you have to change the RotoStart back plate to sealed back plate and install standard engine mounts, Or, You can hack away at the chassis and make the starter wheel cut out bigger and hope your starter wheel will still reach. Not the end of the world cos it was such a bargain, But you gotta laugh.
  22. babylon
    If it has the same menu system as the iMax(Which I suspect it dose), You need to go into the program setting on the charger and there will be a low voltage cut off alarm that you need to change, As an example it may be set to say 15v, When you plug in onto the battery it may only see 12v, Hence, Low voltage error, Just knock it down a volt or two until you don't get the error. Your looking for 'Input Power Low Cut Off' if it's the same as the iMax.
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    Just spent the day in the shed, As like J.K, Watching F1 and stripped down the Thunder Tiger S3 and dropped in a new Go21 I had, Still need a new body., And maybe a new set of shocks just for bling value,Sorry, But if a chassis can be sexy, It's this one, Pretty sure that production cost must be the reason no one has ever done anything like it since, But if Arrma did, Bending chassis's would be a thing of the past.
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    Ooh,Alloy close to that there kerb.
  25. babylon
    Try connecting it to a car battery, If you take the side off and slide out the power supply your see that it is as about a cheap a power supply as they could get hold of.
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