I jump on the Tekno bandwagon!

My son Kris and I have been running a couple Traxxas Slash 4×4 short course trucks and an Arrma Typhon for the last two racing seasons. Ok, most would call what I do more like driving than racing around the track. 

I started with RC cars back around 1972 or 1973 with a Cox .049 dune buggy that either went straight or in a preset circle till it ran out of gas.  It was 1985 when I bought my first electric buggy – a Tamiya Hornet.  I beat that up for a couple of years and then graduated to my first 4×4 monster truck, a vintage I can’t recall.  In 1998 I built a Tamiya Clod Buster for the kids. Alright, I might occasionally use the Clod to chase the cat around now and then. Well, 15 or so years went by and I thought it might be fun learning how to fly airplanes. I joined BSRC and started crashing airplanes more than flying them. 2021 rolled around and BSRC decided to open a dirt RC racing track. I started volunteering to help with the races and was hooked on cars again.

Fast forward a couple years and there I was, out at the race track last year during Spring Thaw, Slashes and Typhon ready for racing. Someone, a certain Tekno racer…we’ll call him Mason, let me know I might not be running the right brand. It started with “Teknos just don’t break,” then “I don’t stress, I race a Tekno.”  He wasn’t finished. 

A month or so later, at Summer Heat, the dementor returned. I was minding my own business, running the race computer thinking all was good…nope. Mason peaks around the window, smiles, and let this casually slip from his lips… “Some people have IBS, some race a Tekno.” Huh? What does that mean? After lunch it was “when the devil comes, he’ll be prying a Tekno from my cold clammy fingers.” I’m now thinking I might avoid Fall Fury. At the end of the day, I was cleaning up, thinking to myself that maybe he’s right? Then I heard a ruckus outside the snack shack, “If it’s good enough for Ryan Maifield It’s good enough for you!” Wow, this guy never stops.

As Fall Fury approached I built up my courage and signed up for the race. Figuring I could avoid contact with Mason turned out to be a lost cause – he was everywhere.  I went home with my spirit drained. For months I didn’t sleep. I was beaten, an empty hull of an RC enthusiast. I finally caved and took the plunge.  I purchased the Tekno SCT 2.0 kit. I built it and gleefully exchanged a few photos of my new pride and joy with the instigator. Not satisfied with the results, Mason muttered something under his breath about the tires, the child-looking paint job and went back to his initial tactics.  He cranked out his most controversial stinger yet – “if the sweet baby Jesus were racing…it’d be a Tekno Truggy, not an SCT.” Next thing you know I’m back on AMain’s site and ordered the Tekno ET 48 2.2. 

Ok it might not have happened exactly like I recall but that’s how I’m telling it.