Radio Control! RC trucks, cars, planes, boats, whatever tickles your pickle!

They should allow dirtbikes there?

 

Legally, no. This is Jersey. But you see them and ATVs there sometimes anyway. You also sometimes see a park ranger vehicle at Jamesburg Park Conservation Area, so watch out.

At this point, you're better off going with an e-bike if you're going to want to do anything like that in Jersey. Bicycles with e-bike motors up to 750W are classified legally the same as regular bicycles, so you can have all of your powered bike fun without any of the legal issues if you get caught. As of yet, I've never heard of anyone getting busted for motors over 750W. Nobody knows how to/cares to check for them.

 

My Enduro Trailrunner's on the fritz again. Something about the front differential. There's something sticking and skipping if I turn it hard. I just redid it. I wonder if one of the ceramic bearings decided to break. Those ceramic bearings have been turning out to be more trouble than they're worth.

So I made it a Traxxas Bronco day at Tamarack Hollow Preserve. I think it's easier to go through the place clockwise than counterclockwise. I went through counterclockwise and missed a turn or two on one of the trails. Maybe where I expected to go doesn't officially exist anymore. I think I went on it last time the other way than I intended to this time, and I remember it being hard to follow. I spent some more time in the east over at the unmarked trails, including this one trail that my Trailrunner doesn't do well on since it's covered by too many leaves and other obstacles. The Bronco made it through.

I also slapped on some official licensed Maxtrax boards onto the spare tire with a couple small bungee cords. I didn't need to use them today. They seem kind of small. Or maybe it's just the Bronco's huge tires. I looked at the real Maxtrax on the top of my real 4Runner, and the real ones don't seem to be that much larger scale-wise. I don't know.

 

I went out with my Trailrunner again today. I decided to go to Frost Woods after doing a bit of work on it. I replaced the bearings in the front IFS gearbox, but I have better bearings that I will install during the week. Ceramic. It restored full roll to my Trailrunner, and it performed well at Frost Woods today until it broke. First it was a tire that got torn up which isn't that big of a deal. It doesn't happen very often, and I run a spare just in case. But the worse thing was that one of my rear shocks broke and I actually lost a special spring that I ordered because of the additional weight of the spare tire. It looks like both e-clips and the piston header itself popped off of the shock shaft. I was able to drive it back to the parking lot, but it was really disappointing. I'm not sure what I'm going to do next. Maybe I'll look into more durable shocks. I don't need to have the best performing shocks, just the most durable. On the bright side, I crossed this narrow plank, and the Holmes Hobbies motor I recently installed made crossing it great. I had such perfect low speed control that I wasn't afraid of shooting off of the plank at all.








And a video of the plank crossing: https://flic.kr/p/2opnxpd