A Day In The Life Of The Baby Lazy
[Welcome wee Daniel Horton to the Lazy 'team'... S.]
As the newest addition to the World Wide Web phenomenon that is RC-lazy, I (self dubbed “the baby lazy”) feel that I should give a tidbit of my 17 year old wisdom. This particular tidbit is 1/365 of my annual tidbittage and for those mathematicians out there that would make this tidbit about one particular day, which is of course today. (Saturday 6th March, i dunno when or if Si will post this.)
It is 9:02 am and my driving instructor arrived 2 minutes late (which did not get added on the end by the way). Anyway, outside my mum’s house is a lay-by which I would have to pull out of to get going. Amidst the panic, fear and celebration of pulling out of the lay-by without getting flattened by a mega death lorry of Dan squishing doom I had forgot to put on my seatbelt, however my driving instructor had not noticed. So with complete subtlety I tried to reach my seatbelt, in a way not unlike a samurai reaching for his sword (albeit a life saving, torso restraining sword) and I admit I did feel a bit like a ninja, unfortunately my seatbelt just happened to be the most distance ever a seatbelt could possibly be from a seat and Mr Instructor was less than impressed with my assassin-esque seatbelt techniques (if I tried a nonchalant whistle I may have got away with it).
Note to self: Brush up on assassin/ninja moves, preferably by pretending my arm is a sword and stabbing mum when she’s not looking.
Fast forward 12:56 and we’ve just arrived at Aldershot club and we plan to test my brand new Mi4 LP. Fingers crossed. Pressure’s on. Need a wee. Toilets locked. Damn. My first impression was, I quote, “like driving a cloud”; perfectly pleasant, not much substance, bit soft and too many of them wouldn’t look nice. As I haven’t raced since the first round of the Thrashnalls I drove it cautiously like hedgehog on a motorway at night who has a “bad feeling” that something may “go down”. Anyhow after a few runs we discovered that the front droop was 0.5, the shocks were the wrong springs and back to front. I really should not have built this car (LOL as the kids say) but after we (Derek) righted these quintessentially unblameable wrongs… I got really cold and wanted to go homeL. However, we persevered and got the LP running very well indeed (High Five!) thanks to the fabulous XXX Main Chassis Setup Guide. I strongly recommend this to beginners and veterans but not to Si because he does off-road now, he doesn’t deserve it.
20:38- Listening to Ant and Dec making some sort of derogatory joke about holes, *sigh* they don’t know what it’s like to feel the pressure of racing toy cars. They’re so naive…so naive…
From the Desk of Daniel Horton’s mum
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