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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 [...]
Are you looking to run a LiFe battery this year at the electric nats? Well MaxAmps will have you covered! Their LiFe 4500 is now ROAR approved. I’m glad to see the LiFe batteries starting to get some acceptance. The fact that they are safer, and you can be a little more careless with them, is more [...]
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 could quite possibly be one of the coolest announcements of the last decade. ROAR is creating a new provisional racing class for 1/16 scale electric powered TANKS. That’s right. Tanks. Check out these additions to the ROAR rule book. Under section 5.3 5.3.1.9 – Scale tracked vehicles (tanks) powered by electric motors are a permanent demonstration class. They may be run [...]
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 [...]
For those looking for a play by play, or even total results from the ROAR nats, you are going to have to find it somewhere else. We are the basher guys remember? 🙂 That being said, I had a chance to hang out at the track, take in some fresh nitro filled air, and enjoy a day of good [...]
Welcome Squid fans, to yet another riveting edition of THE Cub Report! Rc’ers are still talking about ‘The Hack’. So what was ‘The Hack’? Well, it went down at the ROAR electrics nats last weekend in Nebraska. In the first A-main of 2wd Mod Buggy, Maifield and Tebo were running first and second. On the last lap, Tebo pulled a [...]
Get it? Gaining Traction? Made that up myself! Anyway, news from Hot Bodies about Jesse Robbers big win at the 2009 ROAR Fuel Off Road Nationals warm up race over at the Leisure Hours RC Raceway just up the road from us. He was running the new Hot Bodies Khaos Tires on his D8! Congrats to Jesse and [...]
After weeks of total boredom within the industry, it was only a matter of time till things picked up. Seems ROAR has made a couple giant strides in the right direction. Word out of the ROAR camp is that two major announcements are about to be made. The first being they are close to sealing a tv package with the autosports [...]
Hello, hello, welcome to yet another edition of the famed and feared Cub Report, the rc industry’s only truly wfo opinion column. Battle of the big league sponsorships. Did AE get pwned by Traxxas again? Well, the state of 1:1 short course racing is actually pretty fubar at the moment. CORR, who really put short course racing on the map [...]
Just announced from ROAR is the new 2009 1:10 “Provisional” Short Course Truck rules. From ROAR: “ROAR, the Official USA and Canadian sanctioning body for R/C Car and Truck Competition, announced the formation of 1:10 Scale Electric Short Course Truck (SCT) construction specifications to its Racing Membership and Manufacture Affiliate Partners. The 1:10 SCT Specifications, will be the 2009 SCT [...]
Here is some breaking news! Castle Creations has just received ROAR Approval ! That ROAR link goes directly to the page that lists the 1:8 Castle Creations Neu/Castle motor 1515 – 2200CM and a few others (CM36S 4600-6900). I think I know what everyone will be running this year!
A quick news update from Scooter Motor Works is that their 5300 25c and 3800 30c LiPo’s have both been roar approved!
Anybody else tired of blue colored anodized parts? Goodness knows I am. What made one-off works parts look so trick a decade ago, is standard equipment on every Chinese knock-off entering America. Ever notice the first hundred times you listened to “Come On Eilene” by Dexys Midnight Runners was ok, but the 101st time you wanted to stick a hot [...]
