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So I was at a local track this weekend trying to finish up the BigSquid test of the HPI Blitz ESE, and there were a number of other rc enthusiasts there. I approach them all and ask a simple question, “Who’s gonna win the nats this weekend?”. Simple enough question really, and if you are a core racer, or work [...]
The year was 1974 and up rolls my old man in his Ford F-150. Being a curious young chap, and glad to see him, I run over to the truck. In the back of it was a small dirt bike. I had no idea why it was there, but even though I was curious, I was even happier to see [...]
BigSquidRC, once a tiny unknown entity, has blown up lately. Ya, ya, we still have a long way to go, but our progress the last 6 months has been well beyond expectation. It seems that a lot of people are reading us daily as their guilty lil’ pleasure. If you are reading BigSquid, I’m certain you’ve asked yourself, “Just who [...]
Breaking Bad is the best show on TV, yet every time a new episode premiers our fearless editor in chief calls me, to which I always ignore his call then send him a text saying something to the effect “Breaking Bad is on, are you CRAZY calling me?”. LOL So if you haven’t seen the show, do NOT catch next [...]
Welcome to yet another uber edition of the rc worlds most maligned weekly column. 🙂 Btw, you guys have been seriously slack’n with your hate mail lately, or maybe I’ve been slacking on flip’n out on people. Maybe it’s a bit of both? Any which way, you aren’t cool unless you’re spewing the hate to cubby at BigSquidRC dot com. [...]
How about that Eli Tomac? Ya, ok, you don’t know who he is, but he’s got a famous dad and he won the first AMA pro motocross race he ever entered. Tomac races on the Geico Honda team and won the AMA motocross season opener at Hangtown on Saturday, beating such biggies as Christophe Pourcel (whos sponsored by Traxxas!) and [...]
The weather was beautiful outside, a near perfect 76 degrees with nary a cloud in the southern California sky, and I was damn glad to be there. The weather in the greater Chicago metro area has been rather miserable all spring so I was stoked to be out of town. Luckily for me BigSquid needed somebody to spend a few [...]
Danny “Magoo” Chandler passed away last week. If you’ve never heard the name, that’s not surprising, but if you are a motocross fan you’ll know Magoo nearly had God status. Magoo Chandler was one of the fastest motocross riders ever to sling a leg over a bike, and he was arguably the most popular of all time. Why was he [...]
Geezuss I’m getting tired of lame “teaser” press releases. A fine example of this was the tease put out by our broken English speaking friends at Kyosho America a couple weeks ago. The promise was “Something BIG” was coming from them. What did it turn out to be? Well the “BIG” news was that Kyosho America was opening up a [...]
First off this week, huge congrats go out to Scotty Ernst for putting on one hell of a short course race at Trackside Hobbies in Wisconsin. Scotty is arguably one of the top race promoters in this hobby, and widely considered the best race announcer walking the planet. Scott’s race drew around 250 (yes, two hundred and fifty!!) entries this [...]
Are you a fan of street art (graffiti)? Well, I’m not a big fan of graffiti, but I truly enjoy Banksy’s works. This week the new Banksy film “Exit Through The Gift Shop” premiered in New York City and LA, and starts showing in Chi-town on the 30th. Google image search Banksy for some examples of his work, I hope [...]
Ok, recently I have been ranting about ROAR and their infinite wisdom over scale realistic bodies. But now they seem to have gone and gotten the whole RC world in an uproar! And I’m not sure I can even take all the credit! ROAR recently announced that the Pro-Line Racing Bulldog body will not be legal to [...]
Does ROAR have a beef with Pro-Line? They must have, because their recent ruling against the new PL Bulldog buggy bodies makes no sense otherwise. 8th scales have always looked Martian- they’ve never had a full size counterpart to emulate. To deem the Bulldog “illegal” because it doesn’t look realistic enough is a farce, and a waste of time and [...]
This is an exciting week for BigSquid. We’ve worked long and hard on our Li-po Shootout 2, and the results are ready to be posted. Testing batteries might not be “hard” work compared to a construction worker, but it is certainly time consuming. Take the capacity test for example- it takes slightly over 1 hour to fully charge up a [...]
The second BigSquidRC great Li-po battery shootout is nearly finished. Over the weekend the crack BigSquidRC crew performed a majority of the testing. Now we are wrapping up the photo, graph, and writing duties. Packs were submitted for this shootout by CheckPoint, Hyperion, Ace, Zippy, JGB, Winforce (the 2S 5000 mah $7.99 pack), Common Sense and Venom. Some of the [...]
