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HUGE news out of Plano Texas today. Traxxas has jumped on board with the most dominant Lites team in AMA Supercross/Motocross history, the Monster Energy/Pro Circuit/Kawasaki team. This team, owned by pipe building guru and legend Mitch Payton, has featured riders such as Jeremy McGrath, Ricky Carmichael, and Ryan Villopoto in previous years. This season, the 2010 [...]
Ask Cubby, Your Weekly RC Advice Column. ================== Cubby, What are the best tires for my Slash? Love Reading Your Stufff Ronny From Pittsburgh Yo what’s up Ronny from Pittsburgh? The stock Slash tires have their upsides, and their downsides. Upsides are they look realistic, and wear a long time. Downsides are they explode on high cell counts, and don’t offer that good of [...]
I normally don’t post stories of us out bashing the night away, but this one had so many interesting things, I felt compelled to mention it. It started out when I get a phone call from Kierre seen in the left picture showing off his winning… err loosing Slash after one of our famous demolition derby improves, anyway, [...]
First off, here’s the LINK of the week. CLICK HERE No, I’m not going to Rick Roll ya with a blind link. The link takes you to the Toys “R” Us website. Did you know that Traxxas is not only sold at Pep Boys, but also now at Toys “R” Us? Did you know that some models of HPI [...]
Here’s some video we shot while testing out our new Platinum Edition Traxxas Slash 4×4 in the snow! Good times! The video on Youtube is also uploaded there in hi-def!Enjoy!
So we just got our Traxxas 2010 Platinum Slash Edition in house! It looks like our friends at Traxxas are the first to listen to Cubby’s advice, and start treating some of their RC cars like REAL cars. Notice they call this the 4×4 Slash 2010 Platinum Edition on the box! Does that mean there will [...]
We just got the PR for the new Traxxas radio, and it is sounding pretty sweet! The official name is the Traxxas TQ 2..4GHz Programmable Radio system with Traxxas Link. A bit of a mouth full, but it comes with some great features! To start with, it’s spread spectrum, meaning no more frequency worries! It now has [...]
Don’t you just love the rumor mill? I sure do. 🙂 Biggest rumor of the week- That a Traxxas 8th scale buggy is on the way in the summer of 2010. Traxxas isn’t about racing, they are about making money, and the 8th scale market is one of the few that they do not dominate. I really have no idea what a [...]
So, stopped by the Traxxas booth early day 1 to present them with an official Basher Approved Award for the Traxxas Slash. Without a doubt the Traxxas Slash is deserving of one of the highest RC awards right now. It’s cheap, it’s fun, and it takes a beating like nothing else! Peter Vieira did the accepting [...]
You know I couldn’t pass on posting something when such a big announcement happens! I’m sure the “Big Guy” is looking for the edit/delete key already since this isn’t my normal report. So read fast.. haha So lets continue shall we? For those of you that have been living under a rock the last 4 hours, here’s the essential scoop on the new [...]
Breaking news! Traxxas has just announced the Traxxas Slash 4×4 Short Course Truck! Wowza! I have been hearing from Traxxas that this upcoming announcement was going to be big news.. and while we here at the Big Squid office had some guesses, that were close, like an electric Slayer, we didn’t think it would be a re-design like this! [...]
Long time no see, but welcome back to yet another edition of the industries most litigated opinion column, THE Cub Report. So what’s the scoop on some of the newest product releases? Well, let’s just dive right in. RPM is in the Big Squid RC Basher Approved hall of fame. They are one of the few companies that actually have their heads [...]
With the new rage being more ‘scale looking’ RC’s, it seems only fitting that somone would be doing mud flaps for the slash. Well RPM RC has stepped up to the plate and created some! The new RPM Traxxas Slash Mud Flaps work with the new RPM Rear Bumper only. They do not [...]
Recently there was a news post abut the the new Traxxas Slash Bumpers from RPM RC, and I’m sure there was a ton of people asking, why only the front? Well..today that answer has been given.. in the form of a new product! The RPM Traxxas Slash Rear Bumper! It’s 18% lighter [...]
So Yamaha finally showed their all new 2010 YZ450F yesterday. New from the ground up, it features a radically different airbox/cylinder/carb setup than any previous production motocross bike. The amount of “pre-hype” for the bike was huge, as it should have been on such an innovative design. And while bike sales spiraled downward during the poor economy, the Yamaha 2010 [...]
