... to begin with RC?
Hi peeps...
As some of you may have read (or not...) I'm thinking about buying a Kyosho ZX5-SP or RB5 (still not sure but I'd like to have a Kyosho).
But I wonder... is it even worth buying a RC car? Please I hope someone can give me a non-biased opinion on this.
If I look at what I did with RC cars... it has been something popping up in my life now and then disappearing again for a while and then coming back again. To give you an example:
- My first car was some tamiya thing, forgot the name... I still was 11 y old I think
- I then had a Kyosho Optima Turbo MID SE, my dad helped me build it, the car I had the most fun with, I was about 14 y old then
- I sold the Kyosho because I wanted a nitro car, stupidest decision ever, I had a Pure Ten Kyosho Lancia Delta Inegrale... nice car, enjoyed it but never give me the statisfaction the Optima did. As expected the Pure Ten engine got phucked and that was it for nitro, I decided to sell all my stuff... last time I ran it was 2003...
- Sold everything, but in 2005 it started to tickle again... I missed building the cars
I kept an eye open now and then until I came across tower hobbies (behold the internet) and I bought a HPI MT2 SS... I enjoyed building the car (fun!) and stuffed in my 'old' RC stuff... I enjoyed riding it, but my old RC gear (still had a transmitter and receiver from that Pure Ten) so I had a modern car with crap electronics. Not happy, sold evrything (with great profit thanks to the low dollars) but result: no car, nothing.
- Decided to stop with it... but then the RB5 arrived... was this the Kyosho that would fill my 'gap' I lost with the Optima Mid? I was lucky to buy a COMPLETE shed of RC gear, a Xray on-road electro car... owner said it was broken, but I managed to fix it... I kept all the best tools and receiver (Futaba with model memory, ok thingie) and sold the riding car with great profits again and kept myself a decent FM transmitter and receiver.
... but now... I am not sure if I would enjoy the Lazer or RB5 as much as the Optima. I was 14 then, I'm 30 now...
There are NO clubs here (nowhere in the nearest 50 km) and the clubs that are at 50 km distance scare me off... most of them - no offense - have really really REALLY big RC freaks. This means that a noob like me with 'simple' setup wouldn't exactly feel at home. Also, I'm not looking for adventure and joining euro races, club championships and stuff like that. I just ant to have fun...
I don't want to make friends with 30 people I don't know and - how rude it may sound - I'm not interested in what they do either as jobs etc... I had the chance to talked to a local flying RC club (there is one) and I got really disappointed upon return: these people can't really talk about anything else then RC planes.
Help me out... I'm talking about 750$ of equipment here so I don't want to buy this lot if in one month I realize that this whole club thing is nothing for me (I'm not really a 'club' person, never was... I like social contact but when you go to a club at a certain stage they expect you to ALWAYS be there or you're not a 'real member'...
I have a very busy job and also ride Enduro motorcycle at the weekend so...
Hope someone can help me out with this mindtwist
Cheers,
Dominique, Belgium