Finally some legal offroading in Central New Jersey!
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Gamma Ray
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I went back to NJ Devils Way this morning. I explored a new area of the woods. I didn't even realize the pond that I saw in the past actually stretches around a big peninsula of land. I was hoping to get up to the road, but I'd have had to trudge through the water, so I just explored the peninsula and went back. I also went to the usual place that I like going to, but most of the pics are from the peninsula area. Maybe in the summer the pond will be less full and I can get around better. I included a few bonus pics, too. I didn't take many pics when I went to Mill Pond Park last Wednesday, but I went there, too. I really just took one pic of my Trailrunner on the ice and a couple pics of the snow that started right after I got home. The old Jeep Cherokee is my neighbor's.
Gamma Ray
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I finally got out to off road again, and I went to NJ Devils Way. There wasn't quite as much snow as I'd hoped would still remain from last week's snow storm, but that might have been for the best. When I did find snow, sometimes I got caught up on the snow itself or on things under the snow that I couldn't see at first. I don't think I've ever gotten stuck this much before. Still, it was fun. It was also dangerous. I don't think I slipped this much while out with my RC. Both on ice and on sand. It was low tide, so I took it onto the shore of the river for a bit, but I didn't go back the way I came because the sand was so slippery.
It was my first time out with my new long 3S lipo, and I was able to climb up this one spot by the river that I wasn't able to do with my shorty 2S. I was also running aluminum beadlock hub adapters instead of the brass ones I'd been running. I'll have to take this setup to the big hill at Kennedy Park to see how it descends down the steep drop there, but climbing performance really knocked it out of the park today. I'm impressed.
I was able to find a decent amount of ice and had some sliding fun. Video: Enduro Trailrunner - 12/24/2020 - NJ Devils Way | Gamma'='Ray | Flickr
Here's the biggest, deepest area of snow that I could really have some fun driving in. Video: Enduro Trailrunner - 12/24/2020 - NJ Devils Way | Gamma'='Ray | Flickr
It was my first time out with my new long 3S lipo, and I was able to climb up this one spot by the river that I wasn't able to do with my shorty 2S. I was also running aluminum beadlock hub adapters instead of the brass ones I'd been running. I'll have to take this setup to the big hill at Kennedy Park to see how it descends down the steep drop there, but climbing performance really knocked it out of the park today. I'm impressed.
I was able to find a decent amount of ice and had some sliding fun. Video: Enduro Trailrunner - 12/24/2020 - NJ Devils Way | Gamma'='Ray | Flickr
Here's the biggest, deepest area of snow that I could really have some fun driving in. Video: Enduro Trailrunner - 12/24/2020 - NJ Devils Way | Gamma'='Ray | Flickr
RichinRidgewood
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Need a youtube channel. They are not hard to set up.
Gamma Ray
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Eh, I don't really do videos since driving the truck with one hand on the RC controller while filming with the other hand is about as elegant as a sounds.
RichinRidgewood
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Videos or it didnt happen....
Btw if you are good at it maybe someone will give you free RC stuff
Gamma Ray
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Do you have a Youtube channel? I'm curious what it would look like. RichTV. Rich Explains It All. Rich's World! Rich's World! Party Time! Excellent! :lmao:
RichinRidgewood
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I have many videos on my website and a couple YouTube channels.
I do them on an iMac using iMovie.
If you want some help I could.
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Gamma Ray
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Cool
I'm good for now, but thanks! Taking amateurish pics is more my thing. Well, getting out and doing stuff is mostly my thing with my trucks, but I don't mind taking the pics.
RichinRidgewood
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Cool
Ok...
Gamma Ray
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I froze the hair off of my nuts to take these photos! Some water has collected on the cover of the pool, so I took my Mini Z 4Runner out for an ice run when it was frozen at night and early in the morning. I went out last night when it was dark, and I took a bunch of pics. I then went out again this morning and took a bunch more pics as the sun was coming up. I could have probably stood to have gotten out there just a little earlier, but oh well. I was hoping to have some slip and slide action while driving it, but the 4Runner was super grippy on the ice! I guess it's all the brass that I have in it. At least I had some climbing fun going up the cover onto the top of the side of the pool and back down again.
Gamma Ray
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I went to NJ Devils Way early this morning hoping that the hidden pond would be frozen enough for my Trailrunner to do some ice drifting, but it wasn't frozen enough. I left real soon after that, but a section of the big lake there was frozen. You can see that not all of it was frozen, but it was frozen enough in the spot I ran my Trailrunner. I couldn't hear any cracking, and I know that the water is shallow enough at that spot that I could recover my truck myself since I wasn't going far from the land. Video here: Enduro Trailrunner - NJ Devils Way - 12/30/2020 | Gamma'='Ray | Flickr I hope to do some ice drifting at the hidden pond in January or February. I'll need a few sustained below freezing days, I think.
So I left NJ Devils way and went to Ireland Brook at the Riva Avenue entrance. I didn't realize it at the time, but the Riva Avenue end of Ireland Brook is separated from the other end of the conservation area and is the smaller portion of the area. I still took my Trailrunner onto the hiking trail. I went off the trail at a couple spots, but I mostly stayed on it. It was pretty easy. The woods at NJ Devils Way are more challenging for my truck and myself, but it was still a nice walk.
So I left NJ Devils way and went to Ireland Brook at the Riva Avenue entrance. I didn't realize it at the time, but the Riva Avenue end of Ireland Brook is separated from the other end of the conservation area and is the smaller portion of the area. I still took my Trailrunner onto the hiking trail. I went off the trail at a couple spots, but I mostly stayed on it. It was pretty easy. The woods at NJ Devils Way are more challenging for my truck and myself, but it was still a nice walk.
Gamma Ray
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The forecast a few days ago was wrong. It was supposed to be rain, rain, rain this morning, but it wasn't! So I charged up a battery last night and hit Julian L. Capik Nature Preserve in Sayreville, NJ this morning. It looks like there are some areas off the main trails that would be good for my Trailrunner, but you've got to be careful about going into places you shouldn't be going there. There's a police firing range in the area. I did have a nice walk. There were some people out walking their dogs. That seems to be the popular thing to do there. The dogs found the truck amusing.
I did a little bit of four wheel drive drifting as you can see in the video: Enduro Trailrunner - Julian L. Capik Nature Preserve | Flickr I unfortunately lost a screw in the front driveshaft, and I lost four wheel drive just before the halfway point. It was really challenging to drive it back home in rear wheel drive only, but the truck only had to be rescued once. I already ordered the part I'll need to fix it. Heads up for Enduro owners: You might want to check your 42022 screws on the driveshafts. They might not have been threadlocked at the factory. Two of my four appear to have not been. One fell out today, one I could feel was loose when I checked it after I got home, and the two nearest to the motor seemed tight enough. In any case, four wheel drive drifting on ice is way more fun than rear wheel drive drifting on ice. I can't wait to fix 4WD. I'm going to make sure everything's properly threadlocked this time, too.
I did a little bit of four wheel drive drifting as you can see in the video: Enduro Trailrunner - Julian L. Capik Nature Preserve | Flickr I unfortunately lost a screw in the front driveshaft, and I lost four wheel drive just before the halfway point. It was really challenging to drive it back home in rear wheel drive only, but the truck only had to be rescued once. I already ordered the part I'll need to fix it. Heads up for Enduro owners: You might want to check your 42022 screws on the driveshafts. They might not have been threadlocked at the factory. Two of my four appear to have not been. One fell out today, one I could feel was loose when I checked it after I got home, and the two nearest to the motor seemed tight enough. In any case, four wheel drive drifting on ice is way more fun than rear wheel drive drifting on ice. I can't wait to fix 4WD. I'm going to make sure everything's properly threadlocked this time, too.
Gamma Ray
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I got the pin screw for my Trailrunner late last week. I installed it and redid all of the pin screws as well as my steering servo and servo horn screws with threadlock last Friday. Everything held up on today's outing. I'm happy about that. I went to Ireland Brook again today, but I entered from the Beekman Drive entrance. It has an entirely different hiking trail from the one I went to late last year. It was mostly a walk of solitude, but I did some people riding ATVs and a couple other people walking. We maintained distance, of course. It was a lot of dry winter sights while walking, but I also had a bit of an adventure finding the parking spots. I didn't realize it, but they're right next to the road. I was like "no, that can't be parking. This looks like a dirt road. Let me drive up there and find the parking spots." But nope, those were the parking spots. My real 4Runner got some pinstripes while on the search, though! My Trailrunner fared well. I was driving it for about 90 minutes. The 3S lipo held up great the entire run, and I only had to rescue it a few times. I'm glad I brought the 3S with me because I had the extra bit of speed for when I needed it.
I also saw some weird crap that I don't understand!
I also saw some weird crap that I don't understand!
RichinRidgewood
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Bottom picture is of beehives.
Gamma Ray
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Thanks! I didn't know.
Gamma Ray
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I went out to Tamarack Hollow Preserve and went all over the place there. I didn't get a chance to take every trail, but I did spend some time on one of the unmarked trails. I wonder if it was actually part of a farm, though. I mainly did the Tamarack trail which led into the Fresh Ponds Spur. The whole hike was a muddy fun time!
RichinRidgewood
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A gas powered RC truck would be sick. You could go all mental in the woods with one of those.
Gamma Ray
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Look up videos on Youtube of the X-Maxx. While something like that, no matter the power source, can go stupidly fast, it wouldn't be great in places I like to go. Even with the 3S lipo I've been using, it sometimes still goes too fast for the uneven ground, so I've got to exercise throttle control. The plus side of a crawler like mine is that it doesn't take as much of a beating that a super speed vehicle like the X-Maxx does, so things break far less often!
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