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Breakdown: Nitro Fuel – Free Article!

To many hobbyists, the fuel we use in our nitro powered cars is just the stuff that makes it go. Similar to the gasoline they put in their full scale cars. Never taking time to understand what it is made of and why it does what...

RCX- Rocks Long Beach’s Face

10 years ago RCX was born. What started in Anaheim California moved to Pomona and is now in Long Beach. This unconventional hobby show is one of the best things to happen to the RC community. A show that combined RC cars that w...

McMahon is a Cardboard Cowboy

Our booth design team for RCX (Derek on the way to the show at a party store) found this amazing cardboard cowboy and thought it would fit into the booth theme nicely. The first disturbing part was that his crotchial area was a...

Insta what? Instagram! Yup, we did.

We’ve got Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and our website, but this didn’t seem like enough for our ADD ridden social interactions… so we setup an Instagram account to offer up another thing you can click “follow” on. We ...

Is Scale The New Thing?

All Hail Scale I’m old. It isn’t my graying (or disappearing) hair that gives it away, though.1 It’s that I’ve been around RC since I was about 8 years old, and that makes a solid 34 years of my being, in so...

Meet the new guy – Erich Reichert

We’re always trying to get a bigger staff. We’ve taken all the pills, and watched all the videos….wait. Wrong forum. Velocity RC Cars Magazine, the world’s #1 digital only RC magazine, would like to welc...

Check. Check. Hitec Checks.

LiPo’s sort of freak us out. On one hand, they have made electric racing amazing. On the other hand, they have burned down houses. It’s critically important that your LiPo packs are balanced. Some chargers have this...

RC8T Tank – Just a tank?

No it’s not just a tank, it’s an RC8T fuel tank, and it’s not going near an RC8T. We got our new SC10GT ready for review in Issue #3 and this tank is made to drop in. Who needs a stingy 75CC fuel tank and shor...