Beat the Creek 2025 - Thread in Southeast/Kentucky

[Sherman]

Wanted to point any Ohioans to an event just over the border of the Ohio River down in KY. See the original thread here:

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Thread 'Beat the Creek 2025 - Maysville, KY - May 2-4, 2025'

Jan 15, 2025

Where: 4128 Brandywine Rd, Maysville, KY 41056
When: May 2-4, 2025
Cost: $40 per person (full weekend), $20 for primitive RV or tent camping site (full weekend), $10 spectators

I'm not the owner or the spokesperson for this event, but I'm an interested attendee! Wanted to share the event here and see if anyone else from the forum was planning to attend!

More details here:

Beat The Creek 2025

Event in Germantown, KY by Joe Hauke and 2 others on Friday, May 2 2025 with 953 people interested and 473 people going. 12 posts in the discussion.

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• Sherman
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[WRXronald]

Just checked, 4.5hrs for me -- NorthEast OH area ---- Man i'd love haul 70lbs of big rigs down there and check it all out. hmmmmm.........

Thanks for posting!! I was googling and youtubing a few and wondered more about when the 2025 even would be held. May seems just right!

 

[Sherman]

I think my plans are finally solidifying for this event and I should be attending!

 

[WRXronald]

Nice!! LFG!!! I'm still a maybe but gaining traction my 2 big rig builds are done and working well last few runs.... nothing worse than showing up 4+ hrs away and having a catastrophic breakdown on the trail.... lugging out 35lbs is always a joy!

 

[Sherman]

Yeah, I'm not looking forward to those sort of issues either. Planning to put together some sort of small tool and spare parts kit for my bag to have on hand for my truck. Normally with local crawls if I break something I just pack up and head home...but when you're spending money you gotta commit to this one! LOL

I'm planning to take two rigs and I have to be very careful about where I use them. One is going to be my "scale trail" rig and it's waterproofed. The other is my "dedicated crawler" but I can't get it near the creek because it didn't come stock with waterproof box for the electronics and I don't have enough time/money to upgrade before the event. I'm also debating if I'm going to try the barn...it looks catastrophic if you make a wrong move! LOL

Either way, planning to attend with my little brother (we're both in our 40's) and expect to have an amazing time. It'll be my first RC event!

 

[Timmahh]

I am going to try to make it. Hoping to have the H10 Origin here and assembled by then also.

Just kind of depends on what next month will look like work wise.

 

[WRXronald]

Excellent -- you guys are making me want to go even more --- lol also in my 40's!!! Just a big kid at heart.

Tool-wise -- oh yeah I have visions --- I'll probably bring WAY more than I need. But def a MAPP gas torch, propane soldering knife, some kind of small vice, a few spares servos, a motor or two, fastening hardwares, all the wrenches and pliers of course, some wire, deans, etc etc etc!!! The list goes on.

I'm sure we'll have some down time so if I do attend i'll be sure to bring my bottle of Conformal Epoxy resin and you can feel free to go to town all you want on non-water-proofed electronics ---- if you can access them in the rig or pull them and put them back ---- either way its like nail polish just paint it on with a tiny brush and its dry and 100% waterproof in 10 minutes!!! You probably already know this though but either way more than welcome to it if I can make it!

I've done BEC's, ESC's, sound box modules, insides of servos, etc --- it works awesome and one little bottle goes really far!

Just for the record I am usually all talk on these topics and then find a dumb excuse not to make it -- so I'm going to roll my eyes at my own self right now just to head everyone off at the pass....

Golly if it was 2.5hrs and not 4.5!!

 

[Timmahh]

Im about 8 hours away. 3 just to the Mi/Oh border. lol

 

[Sherman]

Haha I know the feeling! I psych myself up for things and then talk myself out of them at the last minute all the time! But I'm committed to this one. I'm tired of driving trucks with just my dad and brother...I want to experience the crowd!
If you decide to go I'll see you there!

 

[WRXronald]

Haha I know the feeling! I psych myself up for things and then talk myself out of them at the last minute all the time! But I'm committed to this one. I'm tired of driving trucks with just my dad and brother...I want to experience the crowd!
If you decide to go I'll see you there!

Right on this is excellent and motivational!!

I KEEP GOING with wrenching on everything like crazy, up all night again last night lol. Surprisingly i'm way ahead of schedule of what I'd want to accomplish and really show up with a decent driving display.

Both big rigs worked out and running flawless on 6s high voltage power!!!
- Got the behemoth 5065 brushless outrunner (14pole) in the SCX6 transmission on one of the big rigs.
- Got the custom hand-made knuckles done for my SCX6-sized Clodbuster other Big rig build with giant 22mm bearings to carry all the weight and 55mm wide steel axle extensions
- Took the already pretty giant 4250 brushless outrunner (also 14pole, was previously in the big rig that got upped to a 5065) and got it shoe-horned into the EMO X4 transmission -- literally not a 1mm to spare on either side - its a fat boy -- but it WORKS, a bit of filing on the chassis rail and a couple washer lifting the back of the trans a hair - and its def SO powerful easily pushes 2.2 tires, duallys, etc. (had to order a steel spur gear - plastic spur stock to my dismay on the EMX 4 won't last -- pitiful in a $800 rig, glad I got it used). Had to run a big 28tooth 5mm bore pinion - but the motor is only 600kv so it works, Crawls great in low, but its FASST (enough) in high.

Hopes to modify a landscape wagon I've had for a bit - -and use the CEN DUALLY / EMO X4 to haul at the show - - both big rigs in tandem - 100lbs+ including the kart!!! Need some kind of wooden platform I have a few thoughts, want to keep it CHEAPO, but functional!!! Needs big tires to roll in grass, etc.

LFG!

 

[Sherman]

That's sounds awesome! I've been wrenching on my truck some too getting some cosmetic things dealt with. I had to trim my rear bumper to fit with the body on the new wheelbase. I finally installed my rear inner fenders that weren't necessary when the body was a half-cage, but I had to adjust them due to the modified wheelbase.

I want to get some wheel weight spacers, but my birthday is coming up soon so I should wait until after that lol.

Those 1/6 scale trucks blow my mind! I remember when I first saw one in person at the hobby shop and how everything on it is just bigger than the 1/10 I'm used to.

 

[WRXronald]

They've heavy and obnoxious and annoying to toss around on a work bench, so I end up hunched over on the garage floor all day back ache the next day; let alone if it breaks on the trail and you have to haul it out.

Begs the question even ?WHY? somehow I can't answer other than i'm hooked and its even caused me to lose almost all interest in 1/24.

Prolly the real truth is my eyes are going as i get older and my hand is not as steady -- making the smaller rigs REALLY tough in a whole other way!!

They are big in a way videos just don't explain it entirely! Partly why I want to bring 'em --- these are even a hair bigger than stock SCX6 with 40 series tires, full length bed, etc -- curious to see if they can even hang in the ballpark with big low-slung honcho masters and the tucked rear-ends.

I'll HAVE to go to find out!!

 

[Sherman]

Just keep in mind that it sounded like from comments last year they only have one trail dedicated to the larger trucks and then some general areas you can drive them around in the main space. Didn't want you to get all the way there from a 4.5 hour drive and realize you have limited space for the bigger rigs. I think as the larger series catches on they'll dedicate a bit more space to them. But I think the 1/24 is in the same boat with only a crawler course or two in the main area. The trails are mainly dedicated to the 1/10 scale trucks.

But it sounds like the bigger rigs are a huge hit with other attendees as they're a little more rare.

I've been multi-tasking watching TV and trying to keep interaction with the family while working on my truck, so I've had it set up on a tray table in the living room the past few days. I know I need to move it back down to my messy workshop soon before my wife blows a gasket LOL

 

[Sherman]

Im about 8 hours away. 3 just to the Mi/Oh border. lol

That's quite a distance!

 

[Timmahh]

That's quite a distance!

not too bad. 3 to ohio border, then the 4.5ish to get through Ohio into KY... So pretty doable really.

 

[Sherman]

What are you considering bringing to run?

 

[WRXronald]

Ok well maybe this would work better anyways -- hit the road real early Sat morning and plan to attend Show&Shine and spend the whole day but go home instead of trying to camp, etc. Then I can bring the wife and dog, make an adventure of it, show the rigs, hit the Trail 9 for big rigs, twice, once with each big rig, and home we go!! We don't really do vacations so maybe I can convince her, just alot of driving for a day-er

I bought plywood for the cart but quickly found it has to be GIGUNDOUS to carry both trucks and the EMO X4 chassis despite a big brushless in it will only pull the 100lbs on flat or slight incline pavement and only very slowly and labored on grass. Any long grass can forget it w/out adding A LOT of weight, which will kill motors and lipos pretty fast. So I am vacating the kart idea. Big rigs can pull it, but Idk, who cares, DUALLY would have been cool.

I have driven both big rigs at the same time a bit (tx in each hand / one handing) so I could bring them both and get them to the trail together; maybe even could crawl them together just swapping to-and-fro if I go slow enough and its not crowded or lots of people waiting behind me.

Anyone know is parking a reasonable distance to the trails? Or a haul?

 

[Sherman]

So from overhead drone shots it seems parking, camping, and the main concourse are all pretty close, but as for where the trails are, I'm not sure. I think they all start at the edge of woods near the concourse and barn. So I'd say probably a five minute or less walk from parking? Not sure!

Id love to see if someone had a map of the place with trailheads. It looked like there were ones there, but I haven't seen one pop up online yet.

 

[WRXronald]

Nice, thiank you for that! Makes sense I guess -- not like its thousands of peops or something.

Any mud bogs besides the crreek stuff? An event like this should have a big, rig swallowing bounty$hole or two lol!!

 

[Sherman]

Not sure! I can't remember if I've seen a mud bog in any of the videos from previous years.