Out into barren land

Not much haze but our scenic ride was very barren, dusty and hot, i like to ride on dry land so i don't have to wash my bike much when i get home later. Today the ride was much longer and extremely fast paced,with a group more than 25 people everyone ride at different pace resulting gap and broken to several group...some got lost, some too fast, some too slow and some seem to be wondering into the wild in their own adventure. I huff and puff my way up and down the hill chasing my rival, at night when i sleep i can feel my legs kinda heavy.

ULTIMATE PROJECT CRAWLER COMPLETED!!! SUCCESS!!

After hours of hard work finally the conversion from stock mini monster truck to profesinal grade super crawler have finally reach its goal. Super flex torsion axle, longer stable stance and 100% terrain crawler with high power climbing rate equal to AXIAL AX10 crawling capability. With Tamiya CR01 driveshaft, MAMBA 25 ESC, 2.4Ghz and dual steering front and rear... no terrains or obstacles can stop this might beast. Would like to thanks our Member Crawler community from rctech for supply me crawler parts. This is rock crawler at its best! will post you the video too hehehehehehe...

First i would like to thanks to member of rctech (http://www.rctech.net) "Ecrawler" for reserving me his stock Huanqi mini monster (A-Tech Leo-x) for my conversion work to full pro spec crawler. Took me around 11 hours of work to convert an innocent shorty mini monster to extreme crawler spec.

Construction Material:
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-Huanqi mini monster stock models (1/20 scale - 'aka' A-Tech Leo-x model)
-2.4Ghz Sanwa receiver
-Castle Creation: MAMBA 25 Brushless ESC
-4x steel clip rods + 6x mini radio antenna (For lower axle push rod and mid drive shaft rods)
-4x extended slim push rods for front and rear steering and center axle positioning
-Lipo 2s 800mah 15c batt
-4x Plastic rod wall concrete insert ( for adapter to attached Tamiya CR01 adjustable drive shaft to axle and gear box)
-TAMIYA CR01 adjustable drive shaft


Useless stuff to be thrown off from chassis:
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-Stock Rx and TX
-Stock 50A Brushed ESC
-Nimh 7.2v batt
-4x stock push rod axle
-2x short mid drive shaft

Work hours - 11hrs

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Performance:
What can i say it climbs like a spider!!!...that is when i use brushless 4200KV motor + 8T HPI RS4 micro pinion gear).


Photo:

Evening circuit fun drive.

Me, Nick, Mochiko and Rudy on the racing circuit busy driving as usual..all brushless, 2.4ghz, lipo, foam tyres and carry some bad driving attitude..hehehehe. Nice to be here after working hours driving and do technical stuff.

4x new wheel designs for XAVAGE and X3-SIXTY

Being bored on the desktop i'm messing around with Z-modeler see if i could come out another additional idea to design wheelsets for both "XAVAGE" and the good old shorty "X3-SIXTY" models using same design falnge pattern both inverted and vice versa looks. So i made 4x units with different looks. I haven't reach the texture UV Mapping yet but shown here is drafted design for all four unit. I try to maintain the same design taste for the wheel flange just like used on previous 1st batch of X3-Sixty and early version of XAVAGE with "half-wall straight face" design. Buts its harder to create perfection taste on its looks than just imagine about it. I'll see hoe it goes on the next step after UV MAP process.

Volcano erruption!

Ah! this is bad...maybe its good too. After putting the medical ointment it started to spew out the dirty goo out from the wound from the swelling bumps from my leg. It actually burst after my pedal hit the swollen part of my leg when i try to manouver my bike downhill but i slip and hit the pedal instead. Well at least it speed up the process of removing those dirty blood out of the wound.

Rough dry adventure

Its very dry and hazy today but it wouldn't stop us having fun in weekends. We're testing the new trails made by friend for upcoming races just nearby Miri public park. Lots of rough spot, spikey bushes, huge drop of downhills and climbing. I got this bad luck where my pedals hitting my swollen legs until the wound got bulging and errupt some goo, lol. I hope the new trails will be ready for races soon. I haven't been racing for more than a year since i've successfully secure 2nd place on last mountain bike race in Bakam motocross trails..