What hobby seems boring to most people but is actually fascinating if you dive into it?
What hobby seems boring to most people but is actually fascinating if you dive into it?
Tell us why we should unexpectedly come to love your hobby.
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Recently joined an on-road RC racing club.
Gets a lot deeper than I ever thought it could. The mechanics of making a car go around turns better/faster gets very in depth. Lots of trial and error. Race every 2 weeks so tons of time to experiment with adjustments between race days.
Ages range from near 80 to 10... everyone out just having a good time and helping each other for a few hours. During winter, Florida busy season, we have 50+ people racing 5-6 different classes in a public parking lot.
Started with a used off the shelf car for $75 from a club memeber 5 months ago... now building competition grade kits and put up shelves in the bedroom for all 7 of my cars. Almost all used for VERY cheap that just needed a bit of love to be competitive again.
Very true. The same I can say about RC Drifting. So much fun if you have a club!
I have not tried that yet. I did nitro off-road bashing years ago and have dabled in rock crawling with a little SCX-24. There's a local indoor track with a drifting course... not real fond of management otherwise I'd race in the air conditioning a lot more.
That makes sense. How did you like rock crawling, also about the small one? I'm thinking about getting into that!
Its different, very slow. I figured it would be a little more relaxing but definitely not the case. Anxiety builds trying to figure out ways to climb without flipping repeatedly. Florida is flat and mostly sand so there's not very much in the way of natural places to run it. I resorted to taking rocks off of construction sites to make a small course in the corner of the yard.
I have several 24’s, they are a blast at that size because damn near anything becomes an obstacle. It’s definitely slower than racing but can be just as fun to figure out just how to make it up a hill or around the edge of a rock without falling. Everything becomes a puzzle that needs to be crawled over.