Hello Everyone
 

New member here, just wanted to drop in and introduce myself. Thanks for having me. Oh yeah, I got the heads up from dabid_van, thanks bud. Thanks again everyone.

Ray:D

I'm only dabid_van on URC, everywhere else I'm just dabid. So, any BL plans yet? Lot's of people from URC are over here too, but there's a TON of knowledge floating around these boards despite the small number of members.

Ray's a great guy everybody, and bought my Pede. Now if it'd just stop raining, I could put it together and ship it to him. :D

The pede is still at your place? :)

Agree, you can find a lot of information here. Really helpful and nice members.

Welcome here Ray! You'll like it. I'm Daniel, most call me Daf or Dafni. Some call me dafnerd... I tend to think too deep :D

Cheers
DAF

Welcome to the forum, Ray!

Hello! You will find lots of interesting info here. I am sure you know me from URC :).

Wuz up!! Welcome to the forum. Come on in and swap some info with us.

Hey Ray! What are we going to do when I'm pres and your vice on URC? :lol:

Welcome aboard, Ray!

Yea man welcome I'm learning little by little from these guys I like to read and follow there projects very smart guys here . They will help you with what ever and quick to :D

Welcome ray. If you like arguments and conflict, you might find it boring. otherwise it's a great place. It kind of reminds me of school though.

You should go to www.rccrawler.com , they're always jumping on each other! :D

Welcome, Ray. And gosh, you're young! :-D

I think that would be Junior in his avy. Or he started with RC a lot younger than me.

I know, but there were some good ones on URC as well.

Same thing we do everyday pinky, try and take over the world!:L:

Just for the the record for everyone to know, the people at URC already know this. I am not one to cause problems and not one to be a "Drama King", I like to make friends with everyone and live in peace.

Am I really young? I'll be 27 on Oct. 28 of this year..... oh wait, my avy :L: , you got me! Yeah, thats my son. He'll be 3 on Nov. 27 of this year. Good one C.H.U.D. :p

Metel Man, I'm not sure who you are :C: , just kidding, it's good to see you here also.

Dafni, good to see you also bud ;)

It's good to see everyone here.

So once again eveyone, thank you very much for the warm welcome and I look forward to a long stay here and share as much information as I can.

I here by take this oath, to help other members here and be a positve role model for all.

Ray:D

Ja, Ray. I hear you. I'm also of the peaceful sort.

I'm 27, my son's 5 and my daughter is 3. Just for the record :)

What RC do you have?

I have 2 Electric Pede's thus far. Still waiting for my other one from dabid. My Pede now, is mildy hoped up. It's has the must haves, you know, RPM Hubs with stainless steel bearings and the like. Here is a list of my hop ups thus far...

1. Deans all the way around
2. Duratrax Streak ESC
3. RPM hubs, front and rear
4. Duratrax Stainless Steel Bearings... must have
5. Traxxas Aluminum Idler Gear
6. MRC Super Brain 959 Battery Charger.... awesome little thing
7. Cut down body post, front and rear
8. Trimmed down body... looks more off-road-ish
9. Dubro Yellow Antena Tube
10. Traxxas Aluminum Shock Caps... must have
11. Water Proof Steering Servo
12. Two Epic 3000 NiMH Batteries... great for bashing and club level racing
13. RPM Yellow ESC Mount
14. Modded Front Arms with stainless steel screws though them
15. Losi Dark Green Front Springs
16. ESC has industrail strenght Velcro to help secure it better
17. Screws with locknuts through the chassis to make it more secure

I can't think of anything else yet, that just about sums it up... I think...

I have pics also...click this

Ray:D

PS
I have done more to my Pede since the Pics... I'll have to post some again later.

Bah the Pede I should be packing up now instead of wasting time on a forum is sooooo much better than that, except for maybe the fact that your's is clean. Um, well, that just means that mine was actually taken off road, you're just a poser, admit it. All that yellow on there, you know that's the color choice of ricers, are you trying to say something through that? What's next, a non connected Stinger stuck to the hood of the body with a giant NOS sticker because NOS makes everything better? :L: :L:

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Actually, I like your truck. I'm sure it's not that clean anymore.

How do you like the stock tires?

Have you been reading my mind dabid :L:

The stock tires are bad, I mean, really bad. There OK for right now. Once they wear out, I'll be getting some new ones.

My Pede now is gonna be a racer (not a ricer :L: ), so I'll have some race treads on there when I'm all done hopping that one up. My other Pede, that I'm getting from dabid (in 10 years :L: ) is gonna be my basher, but I'll still take care of it. That Pede deserves a better home :L: :L:

As for the cleaning, I try to clean my RC's as much as possible. The wife tends to get a ruffle somewhere about my RC's being dirty in the house, if you know what I mean :C: :L:

Ray:D

First off, they won't wear out, not unless you light them on fire or something, they're actually made from a scientifically formed rubber that laughs at the pavement when it tries to wear it down, thus the reason why they get no traction, they're too busy laughing.

Second, there was one time I saw stock Pede tires hook up, and they worked better than my Masher 2000's too somehow. It was in Palm Desert at the Hobby People race track on Thanksgiving weekend, and it'd been raining all day the day before. The squishy but still very tacky consistency of the mud/dirt lent itself to stock Pede tires and I got beat by a guy with a box stock Pede, while my Lehner 5300 made my hopped up Pede a gigantic handful despite the Masher 2000's. I had zero cornering grip because of my speed, but the stocker never got up to any speed so it didn't have that problem! At the very least, I was able to do a wheelie away from every wipeout, got the crowd going to see a yellow CJ8 topped Pede wheelying off a jump only to crash hard and keep going.......until I glazed the slipper pegs by having the spring way too loose. A loose slipper is no compensation for undergearing, next time I'll just put a bigger pinion on!