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kleinbl00  ·  1092 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: April 28, 2021

A friend did that to his Chenowth 4WLD about 25 minutes from my house. He did not get it driving again in 15 minutes.





mk  ·  1092 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oof. Did he break too?

I need to learn how to throttle to change the angle of landing. I've seen people do it. i wonder if it works with 1/1 scale.

kleinbl00  ·  1092 days ago  ·  link  ·  

There were two crutches and at least two casts. He's the guy who used to ride motorbikes in the canyon with Damon Bradshaw so hurting himself was just a thing. On the plus side it was the 'rail rather than the Baja Bug, which mighta killed him.

Something people disregard is that center-of-gravity and moment-of-inertia concerns take on an outsized importance in free space. A little nose-heaviness is problematic when four tires are on dirt but when four tires are several inches above dirt, the front two are barely going to move while the back two reach for the sky. We learned early on that we did not air my buddy's smallblock chevy FJ-40 because the guy who built it wanted it to peel out easily to impress the chicks so he moved the transmission forward eight inches. That initial jump was minuscule but memorable, particularly with 450lbs of removable top sitting in the garage.