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Originally Posted by Crazy L
I think Mikey, some of it comes down to racing snobbery, ie; your "dumb truck" comment. Not that you probably meant anything by that since I doubt you've driven a truggy or any derivative of large wheeled vehicle.
I have though, Monster and truggy, and buggy, in ic and electric, raced and bashed, and from my experience, bashers love trucks AND buggies, racers just love buggies and ic ones at that as they see electric ones as "fake", or a bit of a joke.
Which is a shame really as this is where I might upset a few people. Basically, in some cases, racers have become so blinkered by what they perceive an rc car to be that when a variant or new class comes out, it gets shouted down, slated and left out. People will follow the crowd and if snob club only races buggies then joe blogs isn't going to buy something different as he'll get told by snob club that his truggy/e eighth/sc/stadium truck isn't supported, so "normal" fare is bought and off he goes and follows everyone else.
I bash too, I have an AE mgt truck, it has big wheels, it runs on 6s, and is an absolute hoot.
I would support e eighth, it deserves to grow. Like what has been mentioned previously also, as places get more and more built up, people are not going to want to listen to 14 2 strokes revving up on a start line on a sunday, so they complain, council listens, closes club for noise pollution, the racers bitch and moan, another club gone.
We see it often don't we!
If only we could be more broad minded. The hobby can still grow, there IS room.
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L, I agree with you totally but another aspect of this has occurred to me. I used to run nitro a few years ago and loved it but gave up racing for other reasons.
My one enduring memory of that time is, running at the (dusty) Clanfield track when it first opened, I always used to take a bag of pre-oiled air filter elements with me as the dust used to clog them and affect the throttle response after about 7 minutes runtime. At the time I was the only person to do this and everyone else just used to struggle on twiddling the mixture screws and changing plugs etc. all day to no avail.
On getting back into the hobby 12 months ago I decided to go brushless as I didn't want all that hassle, in the past I had been unwilling (or didn't have the time due to looking after an engine constantly) to attempt setup changes and wanted to develop this aspect of my racing.
I think having a maintenence-free BL system has made me a better racer because I now throw more time at making setup changes and trying to improve the car rather than just maintaining it.
Having been a motorcycle mechanic and grown up with 2-strokes I don't want to see them go but what with A) more and more people complaining about noise and B) the relative ease of operation of a 1/8th electric I can't help but think this is the future of the hobby.