Derby Talk

:nod: Fortunately, thought the intent sounds misguided, the rule may help kids from building unusually slow cars with many wheels touching. I guess that makes sense in a way. I would like to make the mistake and then figure out why it did not work. That is what I am teaching my son. We try somethin...

I'm with Stan on this one.... move a little slowly and offer to pitch in. It's worked for me with my move two years ago. Three Packs now use the rules I helped draft, and the District has taken notice of the efforts. I keep reminding myself, patience is a virtue, I need to exercise more of it. With...

There have been sites that claim that if you stagger the rear wheels, it will help when you hit bumps...We tried it once, and could not get the alignment quite right... I had not seen that claim before. I could see how in theory it might work, but in practice, alignment would not be fun. I've used ...

Good Luck! Did you restrict entrants to just the winners from Pack races or is it open to all interested? Thanks rpcarpe!! I agree with Stan, Great question! The district race will be open to all Cub Scouts in the district. It is the first year that it has been done in quite some time, so I want to...

This has been a while in coming, but I am happy to report that I have gotten the district to okay a District PWD. I have the location reserved, the date locked in, the trophies are taken care of and the track and race equipment inline. I just need to get some volunteers to help staff, which I am fin...

This one pack that has this rule has no wheelbase limitation, no mention of having to use existing slots or any mention of drilling axle holes. So if wheels were staggered, what advantage would that give to a team, other than design feature and allowing them to be creative.

Yet another rule that I do not understand. Cars must have no less than a 4" wheelbase. I know I have seen that one on this board also, in fact I believe that the rule here came from where I saw that rule there. So why would that one make a difference. Again I am looking at the teams ability to ...

As mentioned in the other posts of "Why this Rule" This one as me :sigh: The rule reads: "Cars will be allowed to have no more than four wheels." I was told that a car with 6 wheels would have an unfair advantage over one with only 4 wheels, that 6 wheels are faster. :wall: Does ...

After moving and getting settled into a new area, I am getting involved in the PWD scene agian. I am running into some odd rules and thought I would get some input from fellow pineheads. I am going to post them in their own topics to keep them seperate. The first rules reads: "Overall length ma...

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Just thought I would share. Had to by a new laptop so started searching for one with a serial port. Found a Dell Latitude E5510 that comes standard with a serial port. Ran a race last weekend without a single glitch. It was very nice not to have to deal with all of the communication problems of my H...

Just thought I would share. Had to by a new laptop so started searching for one with a serial port. Found a Dell Latitude E5510 that comes standard with a serial port. Ran a race last weekend without a single glitch. It was very nice not to have to deal with all of the communication problems of my H...

Just thought I would share. Had to by a new laptop so started searching for one with a serial port. Found a Dell Latitude E5510 that comes standard with a serial port. Ran a race last weekend without a single glitch. It was very nice not to have to deal with all of the communication problems of my H...

Just thought I would share. Had to by a new laptop so started searching for one with a serial port. Found a Dell Latitude E5510 that comes standard with a serial port. Ran a race last weekend without a single glitch. It was very nice not to have to deal with all of the communication problems of my H...