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Some people come to Sin City to party, others come for a relaxing vacation, and yet others are forced here by work, I use it to shop for watches. Yes, I take watch collecting almost as seriously as I do rc, so here I am seeking out a diamond (or two) in the rough to add to my ever expanding [...]
Don’t you just hate being disrespected? Well, that’s exactly what happened to me (and a whole lot of other people) when it was announced that Volkswagen had skirted the emission rules with their 2009-2015 TDI “clean diesel” cars. You see, I own a lot of cars, but my daily driver is a V-Dub TDI, which I specifically purchased for its fuel [...]
Yo rc fans, it’s another week in rc and thanks for tuning into another edition of THE Cub Report. Last week over on Vital MX there was a long thread on why people ride motocross, which got several of us in the office talking about why we do rc. Everyone has their own reasons, but these are mine- I drive rc [...]
Ring, Ring, Ring… (my phone goes off last Friday morning) Cubby- Yo, hey Mikeee, what’s up homeskillet? Iron Mike- Hey slicklegger, wanna meet up at Redneck Raceways and finish up testing on the TSM Slash and that Mamba Monster X? Cubby- Ya, I’m definitely in for testing, but I gotta hit the LHS as SOON as it opens to get a BB-8 on [...]
While some of you have been to an organized bash, my guess would be that the vast majority of you have not. You might be stuck in an office working the rc biz and too busy to make it to a local event, or you might live in a part of the country where there simply are no bashes (which [...]
You know, I’ve used the title “Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned” (the title of a Prodigy album) once before, wayyyyyyy back in 2009. So this week I thought I would hop in the time machine and go back to what I wrote back in ’09 and see how it stands up today. So what was in my ’09 Cub Report? * I [...]
Ever see an empty flying field? How about a nearly empty track with 10 people, each running 4 classes for “40 entries”? How about that rocky area of your local park that used to have 10 guys crawling on the weekend, now it is lucky if 1 or 2 shows up? Seriously folks, we gotta stop running people off. Why [...]
Hello rc masses, this is THE Freak’n Cub Report, where I talk the smack and you complain about it to your buddies. Just FYI, if you haven’t noticed, this is the time of the year when all the manufacturers announce their fall/X-mas products. The Losi Supercar was the first (and perhaps biggest) to be announced thus far, but the PRs just [...]
Bigger, faster, gnarlier, that is exactly what bashing is about. Get at least two guys together in a cul-de-sac or at a local park, and it always turns into a “who is the faster” or “who can jump farthest” contest. So the “big” news from last week was of course the announcement of the 6th scale Losi Audi R8 Supercar. Being [...]
Hello everyone, welcome to this week’s Cub Report- a spot where the industry gets a chance to laugh at themselves, and consumers get a bit of an insider’s look into the hobby. My insider email of the week came from a department head at a surface company asking what I thought their next product should be. The industry guy also stated [...]
Yes, I’m still in recovery mode after the HobbyTown USA National Convention in Lincoln Nebraska from last week, but here are some of my thoughts from the show- 1. Why do you even care about HTCON 2015? Well you should, with no iHobby Expo this year (next one is spring ’16), it was basically the biggest surface show in the USA [...]
Hello everyone, you’ve found this week’s Cub Report, where the insiders go to get their water cooler fodder and consumers come to get their rage material. Probably just like you, we’ve got another busy going on around the lavishly plush BSRC offices. Myself, Brian, T-Money and Hawaiian Chris are in Lincoln Nebraska starting on Tuesday for the HobbyTown USA national convention. [...]
Wow, sometimes the rc news gets me all riled up. Ok, pretty much anything/everything can light off a firestorm in my head, but last week my ears started smoking even more than usual. First off… JQRacing (along with perhaps one of their drivers???) started a GoFundMe campaign to raise money to get a “Top 25” driver on their team. Wow, just [...]
Hello everyone, welcome to yet another edition of THE Cub Report, the weekly source for an inside look into the industry that we are all addicted to. For consumers they get a tiny glimpse into what an industry type is thinking, for industry types THE Cub Report hopefully makes for some spicy water cooler fodder every. I am typing this out [...]
Ever notice how back in the day that many rc companies advertised only about racing? That wasn’t just the case in rc either, it is easy enough to look at the motorcycle industry and see the exact same thing. Sure, being the fastest on Sunday did sell a lot of a cars and bikes, but it wasn’t the best thing [...]
