Hey Everyone,
My name is Don and I live in Surprise (work in Phoenix) and am brand new the RC Crawling hobby. I started out in RC Cars about 2 weeks ago when (on a whim) I stopped by Hobby Bench and picked up a Traxxas Bandit (basic model). I had so much fun that 3 days later I had a Traxxas Slash enroute from Tower Hobby. After a lot of internet searching and watching everything I could find on YouTube, I stumbled across some RC Crawling and scale trail running videos (specifically the Axial promo video for the SCX10 Honcho and some Axialfest stuff) and I thought that looks sooooo cool!!!
And...on the 19th of this month (9 days ago) I went back to Hobby Bench and got the SCX10 Honcho. I've only run it a couple of times but have had an absolute BLAST on both occasions and plan to run quite often in the weeks and months.
As luck would have it, I work about 5 minutes from a VERY NICE scale off-road location at Buffalo Ridge park (approx 16th St & Union Hills), so I can go and put the Honcho through it's paces on my lunch hour pretty much any weekday!
It seems like we have a lot of crawling options here in the valley due the natural desert terrain. Has anyone else checked out Buffalo Ridge? BTW, I've read the "Park Rules" sign and there is no ban on RC models posted. Hopefully that won't change. I mostly make use of trails for the disk golf course, they seem perfect for RC off-road. There is also a few hiking trails that start there and those look fun as well but would take longer than a lunch hour.
Anyway, I hope to hear from some fellow valley crawlers. Is there a local club?
Don Brent
My name is Don and I live in Surprise (work in Phoenix) and am brand new the RC Crawling hobby. I started out in RC Cars about 2 weeks ago when (on a whim) I stopped by Hobby Bench and picked up a Traxxas Bandit (basic model). I had so much fun that 3 days later I had a Traxxas Slash enroute from Tower Hobby. After a lot of internet searching and watching everything I could find on YouTube, I stumbled across some RC Crawling and scale trail running videos (specifically the Axial promo video for the SCX10 Honcho and some Axialfest stuff) and I thought that looks sooooo cool!!!
And...on the 19th of this month (9 days ago) I went back to Hobby Bench and got the SCX10 Honcho. I've only run it a couple of times but have had an absolute BLAST on both occasions and plan to run quite often in the weeks and months.
As luck would have it, I work about 5 minutes from a VERY NICE scale off-road location at Buffalo Ridge park (approx 16th St & Union Hills), so I can go and put the Honcho through it's paces on my lunch hour pretty much any weekday!
It seems like we have a lot of crawling options here in the valley due the natural desert terrain. Has anyone else checked out Buffalo Ridge? BTW, I've read the "Park Rules" sign and there is no ban on RC models posted. Hopefully that won't change. I mostly make use of trails for the disk golf course, they seem perfect for RC off-road. There is also a few hiking trails that start there and those look fun as well but would take longer than a lunch hour.
Anyway, I hope to hear from some fellow valley crawlers. Is there a local club?
Don Brent
