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Dream Track.. Nightmare Prices...
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2003 3:19 pm
by payaso
This guys tracks are crazy insane and his prices are too.. Anybody got a line on anything close to this without the $$ tag. If I can get some sponsors for a race club, then I'll invest in somethin like that. What do you guys think??
http://www.couchracing.com/
silla
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2003 3:30 pm
by CaboWabo
I've got all kinds of concerns with that track.
first off, inclines can't be too steep or you knock out a lot of racers right there. their bits front-end would hit the incline before the tires even got to it, thus stopping it, or at the least, slowing it down considerably (advantage for faster cars just plowing into the incline). Now i know what you're going to say, "the track is configurable, don't an incline". Well whats the point of the track then? i can race on flat surfaces just about anywhere. You might argue, "fine, add an incline, but just not so steep." In my experiences, things that are re-configurable are made with "widgets and/or components" that make-up the whole. So all parts are usually interchangable, but also standardized and strictly adhear to certain properties, otherwise there's too many options, things would not start fitting together properly, etc. The point is, there's probably only 1 type of incline, it probably works as an incline, or steep grade, eitherway. So really, its probably still useless for racing with bits, and at that point, i don't consider that track "interchangeable / customizable", in reality, you are limited to a certain number of setups. Personally I'd rather build my own tracks that are easily taken apart, stored, and put back together.
just my 2 pennies
Whew, I did all that 1 breath!

Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2003 3:49 pm
by payaso
Like most great minds do often, I disagree. I will straight up dominate people on this mother of a track. My 1.6 has so much torque that it's sick. It eats inclines like that for brunch...lol
I'd be all over that like white on milk on a paper plate in a snow storm....lol
silla
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2003 3:59 pm
by CaboWabo
I know, but that's my point.
Only 1.6's on your track then?
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2003 4:04 pm
by payaso
I think that a 2.2 might even be too fast for it. My 1.6 is just sizzlin like bacon sucka...
silla
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2003 4:23 pm
by CaboWabo
I'm just guessing, but I'd think that 2.2's wouldn't be too fast - I just say that because on our track 3.0's aren't too fast and our track isn't as big as the couch racing track in their main image.
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2003 4:23 pm
by kwikbb
payaso wrote:I think that a 2.2 might even be too fast for it. My 1.6 is just sizzlin like bacon sucka...
silla
Damn... thems fight'n words. lol
Man I think those track are off da hizzle, whats cool is I could run my Epoch on that thing no problem too! And to answer your Q- no, don't know of anyone else that's got anything as pimp'n as that, but someones bound to run across sumthin sometime.
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2003 4:38 pm
by CaboWabo
kwikbb wrote:
Damn... thems fight'n words. lol
bacon huh?
oink, oink, i smell pork...
i'll eat that shit up wit a knife and a fork...

Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2003 4:48 pm
by kwikbb
payaso wrote:My 1.6 has so much torque that it's sick. It eats inclines like that for brunch...lol
silla
Yo you keep wettin' my palette every time you pump'n dat 'Dragon Rotor'... yo i can't stands no more. I gots ta have it!
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2003 4:55 pm
by payaso
kwikbb wrote:
Yo you keep wettin' my palette every time you pump'n dat 'Dragon Rotor'... yo i can't stands no more. I gots ta have it!
I can drop you a email of this sum bitch in action if you care to see one in a 15sec clip...
silla
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2003 4:58 pm
by kwikbb
payaso wrote:kwikbb wrote:
Yo you keep wettin' my palette every time you pump'n dat 'Dragon Rotor'... yo i can't stands no more. I gots ta have it!
I can drop you a email of this sum bitch in action if you care to see one in a 15sec clip...
silla
Hell yes... that'd be dope.
Thanks dawg

Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2003 5:08 pm
by CaboWabo
payaso wrote:
I can drop you a email of this sum bitch in action if you care to see one in a 15sec clip...
yo, maybe you should put that up in da gallery?
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2003 5:36 pm
by payaso
I'm gonna make a quick run to walmart to see what's new.. PM me, and when I get back I'll send you that clip...
silla
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 1:15 am
by Shypo
man that is one off da hook track, it looks sooo awesome to race one, i think the main problem would be your car running out of range considering how big it is
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2003 1:48 pm
by payaso
kwikbb wrote:[whats cool is I could run my Epoch on that thing no problem too! .
That's what he designed the track for was mini-Zs and Epoch racers... Racing bits on it is just a bonus...
silla