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Bike Motor Kit

Bike Motor Kit

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Bike Motor Kit

$180

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Reviewed: November 8th, 2011

I was reading Boing Boing one day and saw a link to this bicycle motor kit, consisting of a 66cc two-cycle engine, drive mechanism, gas tank, muffler, and controls. The ad brought back kid-time memories for me, as I had dreamed of one day owning a Whizzer, the classic motorized bicycle. It was the only vehicle you could […]

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Trail Finder Truck

Trail Finder Truck

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Trail Finder Truck

$300

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Reviewed: October 27th, 2011

This 1/10 scale kit has amazing realism and performance, with aluminum and steel chassis and body components like those of a full-sized vehicle. You’ll feel like a mechanic building it. You add motor, speed control, radio, servo, and battery.

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Killer Krawler

Killer Krawler

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Killer Krawler

$700 chassis kit, $1,300 ready to run

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In my opinion the coolest innovation in R/C vehicles is the crawler. As the name implies, crawlers are incredible crawling machines that are super fun to build and to run. Like a good video game, they’re easy to pick up but hard to master. Crawlers are built to climb over serious terrain, and some are […]

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