December 2011
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By GCRad1 on December 27, 2011
What was it?
The one-year anniversary of the RECON G6 Challenge + travel story to and from.
Where was it?
Final destination: Cotton Wood Park in Sparks, Nevada
When was it?
Day of event: Saturday December 3rd, 2011 + day before and after.
What was it like?
Temp / Weather - Day of Event:
From a low 21º to a high of 34º [...]
Posted in Adventures, Events, SCX10, Wraith
| Tagged GCRad1, Recon Crawlers, RECON G6 Challenge, Road trip, Rodney "GCRad1" Wills
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By GCRad1 on December 26, 2011
Have you ever wondered what is inside your differential, be it your full-size rig or your R/C for those of us who are RTR’ers? And how exactly does a differential works? We all have a rough idea as told to us by our fathers and uncles, but for a “bust-a-scientifical” classroom breakdown of the concepts, [...]
Posted in Tech
| Tagged Diff, Differential
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By ectosports on December 23, 2011
Our final Axial Geocache for 2011
Congratulations to Rhett Mora of Fernley, NV for getting out and finding the Axial Geocache #6…. The last one for 2011.
Rhett fuond the Axial Geocache #6 on December 28th, 2011 at 2:55PM PST.
Here is what Rhett had to say about his adventure.
“My name is Rhett Mora, and I just found [...]
Posted in Geocache
| Tagged 1:1, Axial GeoCache, Randall Davis
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By GCRad1 on December 23, 2011
The Axial family would like to invite you and your family to come camping with us June 22-24th, 2012 in the Tahoe National Forest for AXIALFEST 2012!
Axialfest is held in the Tahoe National Forest located northeast of Sacramento and southwest of Reno in the beautiful Sierra Nevada Mountains. We will be camping at the Cisco [...]
Posted in AXIALFEST 2012, Adventures, Events, News, Promotional
| Tagged AXIALFEST
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By Bender on December 22, 2011
Not sure how many of you, if any, have heard of this race/rally. I recently stumbled across some video on YouTube from the 2010 Magam Trophy event. I must admit I was impressed to say the least, these guys are pretty hardcore. I could see this event being shrunk down to meet our scale R/C [...]
Posted in Adventures, Events, International, News, Promotional
| Tagged Axial, Bender, Comp, competition, event, Events, fun, magam trophy, Modifications
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By GCRad1 on December 21, 2011
December 10-11th, 2011
US Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California
I’ve been fascinated with the whole “overland - adventure - expedition thing” and discovered this cool forum Expedition Portal and the coffee-table magazine Overland Journal.
Through the forum I came across this charity event that these “overland” vendors where participating in, but it was not going to [...]
Posted in Adventures, Events, Promotional
| Tagged Toys For Tots
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By GCRad1 on December 20, 2011
RECON G6 Challenge
Birthday Bash
December 3, 2011
Cotton Wood Park, Sparks, NV
Story by: Matthew “Skeeno” Soileau
Photos: Mike Morris & Matthew Soileau
Have you ever seen a first-time mother getting prepared for her child’s first birthday? If you have, you know that their excitement level is off the charts. Brian Parker was equally as giddy as he [...]
Posted in EXO Terra Buggy, SCX10, Wraith
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By GCRad1 on December 14, 2011
Axial Wraith goes to the 44th Annual SCORE Baja 1000
My buddy Mark “Sarge” Schleipfer of Jackson Motorsports working in conjunction with BFGoodrich; drives an 18-wheeler for BFG Pit Support #3 for the Baja 1000. While he asked if I wanted to come work the pit for the week in Mexico, this year was not my [...]
Posted in Adventures, Events, International, Wraith
| Tagged Andy McMillin, Baja 1000, BFGoodrich, Mark "Sarge" Schleipfer, Scott McMillin
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By GCRad1 on December 13, 2011
December 2011 a three man team will set out in a revolutionary Polar Vehicle with the aim of beating the current Guinness World Record of 2 days, 21 hours and 21 minutes and become the fastest overland journey to the South Pole to mark the 100 year anniversary of the first successful attempt by Roald [...]
Posted in Adventures
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By GCRad1 on December 11, 2011
The Wraith™ gave Axial it’s first taste of speed, and while speed was not the total pursuit principle of the Wraith, we still sought after more.
Axial’s R&D team started with a clean slate and took an in depth look at the off-road desert scene before starting the EXO Terra Buggy project.
The design conclusion was, that [...]
Posted in EXO Terra Buggy, Product Release, Promotional
| Tagged Brandon Coonce, EXO Terra Buggy, Hankook Dynapro MT, Jamie Seymour, Matt Kearney, Paul Jho, Racers Only, Rory Ward
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