Sunday 1st Aug

Racing is on!!...well...bashing around is anyway. I might be trying out a new build during the course of the day.. something I've been creating over the last couple of weeks :)

Anyway... 12 - 4 pm as usual feel free to pop along for a run around.

Stonehaven Round

Was a good Day Sunday...I ended up driving Phil's X factory B4 conversion and had great fun driving it..Thanks Phil!!

12 Drivers turned up to race and we had some guest appearances by Dan's new Schuy Cougar and a fantastic looking new Tamiya TRF201 owned by Dom. Both cars looked and raced fantastically and I got some half decent vid footage of it :)

My driving has improved form the last time...I ended up have several new personal bests and increased my lap count from 15 laps last time to 17!

The down only point was the continuing probs with Darren's Durango, which once again just stopped during the first heat...I think you might find it for sale today on Ebay...the other down point.

Great day.. Dan won with Dom a close second.

Sunday 18th...

No driving this Sunday...due to lots of other commitments and possibly some work needing done in the SHQ's kitchen we'll have no racing on the 18th... hope this does not disappoint to much...

The weekend after that is a round at Stonehaven I think so will possible be racing there to make up for it.

Sunday 4th Racing

Was an outstanding day today, rained so did not try outside but great fun was had by all I think. Phil joined in today and had his B44 flying around the hall...leaving some of his tires on the floor :P

Used a new track design today...added more sections for a tighter more technical track.

We had 4 cars screaming around for a while and it really was excellent fun, Iain and I also broke out the Truggy's for a thrash while other batteries were charging, they really are great fun to drive but have the turning circle of a super tanker.

No major damage today, I broke the top of a shock cap and my Bro cracked his new shell.

Did learn some good stuff, mainly that 19-21 turn brushed or brushless equivalent will probably be a requirement for driving in the Hall...any more then that starts leaving rubber everywhere :), small price to pay for some good fun.

18th July for next bash... Weekend after that (25th) is another outdoor round at Stonehaven :)

J

Sand Rat Part 1

I have another little blog that focuses on pure bashing around and building RC buggies. I'm doing a small project for the URC forums that I'm documenting on my Buggy Bash blog.

The first project I'm calling the Sand Rat, it's a Baja VW Beetle conversion of the Ansmann Macnum. I've finished the first build post so thought I'd share that here.

http://rc-buggybash.blogspot.com/

J

Sunday 4th July

I've arranged to have the back area's grass cut over the last few days for the oppertunity to do some outside, grass bashing around...however the weather does not look to be in our favour so a normal indoor session will be more likely :)

We'll see though.

Should be a few people there with at least 6 cars driving in 2 heats throughout the afternoon..awesome!

J