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I don't know what to say but check out what these guys
are doing at Calshot velodrome near Southampton. Yes
that is toy cars being driven round all day by grown men.

Now if the cars were wi-fi powered linked to bikes on rollers with a remote.....that would be fun.

yeah, I've seen that on the website

hmmm...

maybe they had to augment the income from cycling to keep the drome going?

lets face it, two years ago hardly anyone rode track, it's much more popular now

Yeah.. I guess if your BB height is too low, that's a good alternative

I used to do this,
but I was 15 at the time.
And they're not really toys, they're pretty good to follow as a hobby, mechanics etc. getting them up to 50mph was good fun.

Very cool

Much cheaper:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi1VPQd40Ec

It makes a lot of sense really - infinite track length, always within signal distance...

man i used to want a tamiya radio controlled car so bad. i can still remember the catalogue.

now i'm old, shamlessly nerdy and beter off than i was when i was 13 maybe i'll get me one.

whatever floats your radio controlled boat i guess.

speaking of which, a while back i was walking though a park out in kent somewhere and there was a little boating lake where a load of middle aged freaks were playing with their radio controlled submarines.

now that's weird.

i was half thinking of getting down there before them one day with a dummy controller, claiming i'd already submerged and just gazing intently at the ducks and instigating conversations about ballast and torpedo tubes. they'd never need know.

i like to fit in.

It makes a lot of sense really - infinite track length, always within signal distance...

uh, aren't most tracks "infinite length" until you get off them. bit like the M25 really.

You can't stop the thunder.

man i used to want a tamiya radio controlled car so bad. i can still remember the catalogue.

now i'm old, shamlessly nerdy and beter off than i was when i was 13 maybe i'll get me one.

whatever floats your radio controlled boat i guess.

speaking of which, a while back i was walking though a park out in kent somewhere and there was a little boating lake where a load of middle aged freaks were playing with their radio controlled submarines.

now that's weird.

i was half thinking of getting down there before them one day with a dummy controller, claiming i'd already submerged and just gazing intently at the ducks and instigating conversations about ballast and torpedo tubes. they'd never need know.

i like to fit in.

Stand there crying, if anyone asks why you are crying just start crying louder, inconsolably, and during this point to one of the ducks whilst flicking the switches on your RC.

Morbo will crush those puny vehicles beneath his mighty tubular wheels!

Stand there crying, if anyone asks why you are crying just start crying louder, inconsolably, and during this point to one of the ducks whilst flicking the switches on your RC.

Or dooks, you could make a remote control turd and chase their submarines with it! I'd pay good money to see a turd hunting down a german U-boat.

Or dooks, you could make a remote control turd and chase their submarines with it! I'd pay good money to see a turd hunting down a german U-boat.

+1 Let's start a book

a turd?! where did that come from?

+1 Let's start a book

Does the turd have torpedoes? I think it should...

torpaedos

i dont know if you realise but if you tell someone that you are involved in a fixed gear forum, where people talk about bikes that have been superseded by technological advances, and ride round in silly clothes clutching bars near the stem. they may find it a bit weird too.

i dont know if you realise but if you tell someone that you are involved in a fixed gear forum, where people talk about bikes that have been superseded by technological advances, and ride round in silly clothes clutching bars near the stem. they may find it a bit weird too.
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A Hobby's a Hobby. No matter what shape or form.
Some middle age men still play warcraft with the figurines.

Some middle aged men cycle bikes around that track!

I still have a 1:10 Escort Cosworth, ha! might dig it out for the next track day ;)

A Hobby's a Hobby. No matter what shape or form.
Some middle age men still go to parks and hit each other with foam covered swords

fixed

not that I've ever done that... ahem...