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I should have stayed home ?
So I get to the BMX track to find snow on a lot of the sections. I figured I'd give it a go anyway. First up Kraton. Plug in the batteries, turn everything on and take off.....and then stop....and then take off.....and then stop. Intermittent power. I give it half throttle and nothing. Hold it and 2 seconds later it takes off. I opened the receiver box and everything looked good. Put fresh batteries in my Tx. I tried to calibrate the ESC but it would only go into program mode. Something is farked up. Away it goes.
I pull out the BRCC. I take it over a jump on the track and it turtles. I walk over and right it only to realize I'm in 4 inches of mud. I try to walk up the face of the jump and fall forward, transmitter still in hand. Inadvertent throttle press. I let go. I continue to try to walk up the face of the jump and slip again. More inadvertent throttle and the truck disappears over the crest and out of sight. I finally come to my senses and walk around the jump to go look for my truck. I come to find it upside down with a rear a-arm broken. No idea what exactly happened.
So away goes the BRCC and out from the bullpen comes the Granite. I decide to jump it off a berm and onto the grass outside of the track. I line up the first jump, give it some throttle and take off. I land the jump and immediately see one of my front tires cocked inwards. Broken turnbuckle end. I go back and grab a turnbuckle off my BRCC and swap it onto the granite. Next jump I take it easy. Nothing breaks. The following jump I decide to do a backflip and I end up landing nose first. What breaks? A rear a-arm. How that happened is beyond me ? So I pack my sh!t up and head home, tail between my legs. This will be one short video when I get around to editing it!
So I get to the BMX track to find snow on a lot of the sections. I figured I'd give it a go anyway. First up Kraton. Plug in the batteries, turn everything on and take off.....and then stop....and then take off.....and then stop. Intermittent power. I give it half throttle and nothing. Hold it and 2 seconds later it takes off. I opened the receiver box and everything looked good. Put fresh batteries in my Tx. I tried to calibrate the ESC but it would only go into program mode. Something is farked up. Away it goes.
I pull out the BRCC. I take it over a jump on the track and it turtles. I walk over and right it only to realize I'm in 4 inches of mud. I try to walk up the face of the jump and fall forward, transmitter still in hand. Inadvertent throttle press. I let go. I continue to try to walk up the face of the jump and slip again. More inadvertent throttle and the truck disappears over the crest and out of sight. I finally come to my senses and walk around the jump to go look for my truck. I come to find it upside down with a rear a-arm broken. No idea what exactly happened.
So away goes the BRCC and out from the bullpen comes the Granite. I decide to jump it off a berm and onto the grass outside of the track. I line up the first jump, give it some throttle and take off. I land the jump and immediately see one of my front tires cocked inwards. Broken turnbuckle end. I go back and grab a turnbuckle off my BRCC and swap it onto the granite. Next jump I take it easy. Nothing breaks. The following jump I decide to do a backflip and I end up landing nose first. What breaks? A rear a-arm. How that happened is beyond me ? So I pack my sh!t up and head home, tail between my legs. This will be one short video when I get around to editing it!
