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Helloooo friends, and welcome back yet again to another amazingly tart edition of THE Cub Report, your weekly (sarcastically written) guide to our hobby. Just after the start of each new year it doesn’t take long for full scale racing to get rocking. The Dakar rally is once again underway, and Feld/FIM Supercross kicked off its 2011 season last Saturday [...]
As we ring in 2011 people tend to realize a new year is sorta like a fresh start, a time when anything is possible, a year where we can put our best foot forward and swagger on while (hopefully) not repeating our former mistakes. On New Years Eve I was fortunate (or perhaps unlucky?) enough to host a rather large [...]
Geezus, one minute I am polishing off some very snappy Dom 98′ to ring in 2010 (followed by a Very strong La Flora Dominicana Chisel), and suddenly I look up and I’m writing the last Cub Report of the year. My oh my does time fly when you are pwn’n the rc media world. Because I’m a creature of habit, I [...]
Unfortunately I was extremely sick over the holiday break and didn’t get in any of the RC I had planned for the short break. While lying in bed, I get a phone call from Cubby. He’s rambling on about how his Monday article was going to be a day late. This is pretty rare for him. While he is otherwise [...]
Can you believe there are only two weeks left in 2010? Geez does time fly. Next week I’ll be doing my annual “best and worst of” column, it should yield some juicy reading for you guys. But first I have to bust out this weeks Cub Report… It’s pretty rare when something really-way-extra-super-dope gets released but last week Pro-Line delivered the [...]
Yet another week has flown right by in our hobby, welcome back to THE Cub Report. In some areas of our country, it’s blizzard conditions, in others (Hawaii anyone?) it’s a perfect 80 degrees. Inside the exceedingly well lit and remarkably well appointed BigSquid offices it’s always 72 degrees. We hope wherever you may be that it’s perfect rc weather. Months [...]
Many a week goes by where the rc world is slow on news, but not this one…. Horizon finally introduced a replacement for the decade old Losi XXX buggy, it’s called the Team Losi Racing 22. Whoaaaa, did the 22 arrive right on time, or way too late? The uber racing crowd has been proclaiming the TLR 22 to be a “game [...]
So….. the banter around the office this weekend revolved around whether or not tax dollars should be used to support our beloved rc hobby. Just how did this convo even come up? Well, editor Brian told us about a new track get’n ready to open up down south. This particular track was given its building by the city, and [...]
Life is tough in the newspaper and magazine industries. Actually, most industries are having it rough during our economy, but the print guys have really been suffering. Nearly every week you learn about another big name newspaper or mag calling it quits. Finally those tough times have hit us in the rc world. I have long said that 4 mags for [...]
Am I just crazy or did Ferrari suffer a meltdown with their race strategy at Abu Dhabi? For those not in the loop, yesterday was the season finale to the Formula 1 series. Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso stood an excellent chance of bringing home the World Drivers Championship, but due to getting stuck behind slower cars after an early [...]
Most Amercians could car less about Formula One racing, but being the most elite motorsport on the planet I can’t resist watching it. Todays F1 race was in held in Brazil at Interlagos. If you are an rc road course designer, your dreams should be filled with thoughts of emulating that track. The elevation changes, the multiple apex corners, [...]
As unbelievable as this may seem, BigSquidRC has elected to renew my contract, ensuring that THE Cub Report will be around for another year. I know this news will be met with many a “Are those guys F’n crazy?”, but there are a few readers out there that get it- a select number that appreciate an alternative look at [...]
As part of our extended show coverage, Brian asked me to write a few of my observations from The Show. So here’s the scoop as I saw it from my viewpoint… The Up Sides- Traxxas– Traxxas absolutely nailed the show. I’m not a huge fan, but I have to admire where they are sitting right now. They had an uber booth, then [...]
First off, a couple of updates. Our 4S Lipo battery shootout is awaiting completion pending arrival of our West Mountain discharging gear. 90% of the shootout is done, it should be just a couple more weeks till we get the uber test gear into our hands so we can collect the rest of our data. Next, the BigSquidRC transmitter shootout [...]
Hello good people of the rc world, and welcome to yet another vitriolic edition of your favorite weekly rc column…. So, one of the guys in the ROAR camp sent me another scathing email, which I thought was quite odd as Cubby’s Wheel Of Doom hasn’t landed on ROAR for weeks (a wheel I spin to determine who I’m flip’n out [...]
