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Hello there fellow rc fanatics, welcome to Big Squid. I am Cubby and every Monday I take a look back at some of the big product announcements from the previous week. Plus, I also talk about other important happenings in the rc industry. Shall we kick the tires and light the fires??? Finally, it is Rocky Mountain Expo Week! For those [...]
Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s special edition of Everybody’s Scalin’ – Unboxing the Axial Racing Capra 1.9 Unlimited Trail Buggy Builders Kit. Don’t worry, I’m not going to show you 15 pictures of bags. Crawling comps have started to become more popular and Axial Racing has stepped in to make sure you have a worthy rig for crawler glory! [...]
“BSRC Review question Do you have consistent standards for your reviews? The TRX6 got an A in Time to Bash with the comment “as long as you have a pack charged, from the box to hitting the trail, it takes about 2 minutes.” The Infraction got a B in Time to Bash with essentially the same comment “pop in some charged [...]
In late June, Yokomo released a new steering servo, the SP-03D, and it might be the most interesting release in RC drift for a quite some time. For a starter, it looks trick and Hayato Yoshinami used it when he won the 2019 World Drift Championships. If you spend most of your time crawling or bashing, the specs won’t look [...]
Folks that are heavily involved in the rock crawling community are used to “scale” being of the utmost importance. For most other types of r/c, it’s at best secondary or, usually, an afterthought. When it comes to solid axle monster truck racing, scale isn’t exactly forgotten but it’s also not really at the forefront, either. A friend of mine, Colby Marshall, [...]
Hola rc fanatics and welcome to another week’s Cub Report. Whether you bash, boat, or crawl, BigSquidRC has you covered. With that said, lets jump right on into it... It isn’t nice to complain about how our team did at Motocross Des Nations this year, yet, I seriously can not help myself. Good Lord, what in the freak is our [...]
What’s going on everyone, this has definitely been an interesting week to say the least and finishing up the RC4WD Trailfinder 2 kit with the 1985 Toyota 4RUNNER body set capped it off. This build took me a long time to complete, had a few electrical issues in the tail end of the build but all is good now! Doing The [...]
“Outlaw Rampage Pro When will you guys be doing a review on the Kyosho rampage pro? I noticed it was in the servo review, and you did an unboxing, whats going on? Matthew G.” Cubby- Hey ya Matty, shoot me your snail mail for a sticker pack. Also, if you send me your shirt size, I will hook you up with one of [...]
A couple of days ago MST released a few more details of their upcoming FXX 2.0 KMW, and I am really rather curious about it. Front motor, shaft driven and inboard front suspension, all mounted on a 3.5 mm carbon fibre chassis. The battery and electronics are concentrated towards the rear, which coupled with the front engine should give a pretty [...]
Thank you, Traxxas, for finally giving me the excuse to run this Simpsons joke headline. So, in case you missed it, earlier this week Traxxas had a pretty big announcement- the Traxxas Maxx. The Maxx – it’s weird seeing no prefix in front of that word, isn’t it? – is a 1/10 version of the gigantic X-Maxx, and many bashers are stoked. You [...]
Hello there rc fans, thanks for visiting BigSquidRC. I hope you enjoy your stay on our website, after all, it is loaded with rc news, views, and reviews. First up this week is the IFMAR 1/10th scale world championships. Now, BSRC isn’t a “racing” website, but even we think it is important for bashers to know when the “really” big races [...]
Last weekend I took a little road trip to Saranac Michigan for the DSM Off-road Great Lakes Gauntlet. This event is only 3 years old, yet has a following like it has been going on for 6 years. My buddies have been telling me about it for a year now so I made sure to keep my calendar clear for [...]
“Thumb Steer Hi Cubby, I have an older Futaba radio but want thumb steering on it. What is the best way to convert it over to thumb steer? Brewer B.” Cubby- Yo hey ya Brewer, thank you very much for writing in to ASK Cubby. Please send me an email with your home address so I can hook you up with a sticker pack. So, [...]
Drifting is certainly not about getting stuck, if anything, the opposite. When I first got into it, I naively thought that the walks of shame would be a thing of the past. No more walking to turn an upside down crawler or basher back on its wheels. Alas, that was not to be the case. Actually, the walks of shame [...]
Hey Doug, I really like all the solid axle monster truck info you put out, as well as the Trigger King stuff, as I’m still new to the world of scale monsters and info is still kind of tough to find. I do have a question that I don’t see talked about much though- why exactly is a Clod sized [...]
