addiemonster
Pebble Pounder
It all started with a dirt hill in Bowdoin Park. When my main crawling buddy and I first got into RC crawling, we brought our mostly-stock SCX10IIs to the park to seek adventure. While there, we decided to attack this giant dirt hill with a rapidly-increasing grade. We could get about halfway before either digging in to our frame rails or tumbling back down. That was about two and a half years ago, and we swore one day we'd come back and conquer that damn hill.
Fast forward to later that summer, I saw my first Axialfest video. Two things happened in that moment - one, I decided we HAVE to go eventually. Two, I would enter the Ultra 5K with a Bomber.
I showed it to my friend, and he said "I bet those would make it to the top of that damn hill", and we both decided to buy Bombers right away.
We then proceeded to not buy Bombers until last week. :ror:
THE POINT IS, we have Bombers now. And we're building them up for Axialfest next year, and in the meantime, to conquer that damned hill. We both started off with the Savvy 2.0 - here's mine:
Within an hour of owning it, I've peeled the decals, removed the spare, bound it to my DX5 Rugged, soldered in a Holmes Hobbies Trailmaster Sport 550 27T, installed a Vanquish sway bar, and then Monster Jam'd the ever-loving hell out of it up and down my street.
Backflipping it off a high curb rules. 8)
I'll be updating both builds in this thread, leading up to our hopeful trip to Axialfest next year. My particular build is going in a minimalist direction, though I might mix it up with a custom body shell. I really mainly just want mine to perform well enough to survive the Ultra 5K.
That, and climb that damn hill. "thumbsup"
Fast forward to later that summer, I saw my first Axialfest video. Two things happened in that moment - one, I decided we HAVE to go eventually. Two, I would enter the Ultra 5K with a Bomber.
I showed it to my friend, and he said "I bet those would make it to the top of that damn hill", and we both decided to buy Bombers right away.
We then proceeded to not buy Bombers until last week. :ror:
THE POINT IS, we have Bombers now. And we're building them up for Axialfest next year, and in the meantime, to conquer that damned hill. We both started off with the Savvy 2.0 - here's mine:
Within an hour of owning it, I've peeled the decals, removed the spare, bound it to my DX5 Rugged, soldered in a Holmes Hobbies Trailmaster Sport 550 27T, installed a Vanquish sway bar, and then Monster Jam'd the ever-loving hell out of it up and down my street.
Backflipping it off a high curb rules. 8)
I'll be updating both builds in this thread, leading up to our hopeful trip to Axialfest next year. My particular build is going in a minimalist direction, though I might mix it up with a custom body shell. I really mainly just want mine to perform well enough to survive the Ultra 5K.
That, and climb that damn hill. "thumbsup"
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