The Joys of Toys When Mike Phillpot sent us an image of his RC proudly displaying one of our Mud Life stickers, we had to know more, and here’s what he told us... With a teenage daughter and two boys under 4, I am currently unable to justify a full-size truck - however I wanted to pick up a hobby that I can share with the boys as they grow up, but that still had 4 wheels and mud! So I give you, RC Trialing and Rock Crawling. Early into the hobby for me, but after going out with a friend, who has been in to RCs for years, and a couple of his trucks, I was hooked! By the following weekend, I had sought out and purchased a second hand Traxxas TRX4 Sport that had seen little use, and set about making some light modifications to it by first of all flipping the bumper mounts front to back, as this allows the bumpers to be mounted higher to improve approach and descent angles. I then trimmed the shell to accommodate larger tyres and opened the arches out up front. I also fitted some MUD LIFE stickers! 88
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