RC Drift Rescue! Usukani D3T Drift Tricycle

[@ChrisKnowlesTube]

Great job on problem solving this little trike. Cute little drifter.

[@RoadsideRC]

Thanks 👍 I was happy to help them get it running!

[@billyb5057]

oh wow a RC drift tuk tuk amazing proved to be an interesting challenge for you *👍A big like🌲Au🎅full view🖥*

[@RoadsideRC]

Really quite an unusual vehicle!

[@mattster197]

I'm getting one for Christmas. I told my GF to order it. I am going to paint it to look like the Mystery Machine and I got the stickers from some guy in the UK. Sweet!

[@RoadsideRC]

That is a fun idea!

[@arkansasrcnewbie]

More about crawling but TROY....THIS IS AWESOME!!! 👍👍👍

[@RoadsideRC]

Thanks! I try to enjoy all the kinds of RC. Do you have any drift tracks near you?

[@All_RC_Fun]

Nice to persist and save the drift trike. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@RoadsideRC]

Glad I could do it!

[@gabrielpichardo1492]

That front fork looks backwards to me definitely. The two trees go forward and that will kick the front wheel out forward more and the wheel hub will be forward of the center hub where the fork mounts to the chassis. This is what makes hikes and motorcycles automatically center the steering when the bike is balanced. You definitely got it to work great but im almost certain that if you turn the fork around you will get an even better result

[@anthonylim2428]

6:20 you can tell that he tried it.

[@RoadsideRC]

I did try it both ways. The factory setup suggests it this way. When the forks were rotated, the mounting points were wrong for the geometry. Perhaps if I took the thing all the way apart and was able to reassemble backwards, it might work.

[@gabrielpichardo1492]

@@RoadsideRC thats strange. If you look at any motorcycle or bike the forks are definitely the other way around. I guess you would need longer rod thingamajiggers to make it work the other way around.

[@hvnspd5]

I love my dt3 I been driving them since they released. So much fun to drive. Just set them up right and know their limits. Great video brother. 🤙

[@RoadsideRC]

Glad you are enjoying it!

[@driftcraze2138]

The mad scientist back at it again nice save 💪🏻🔥😎🤙🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💯

[@RoadsideRC]

Thanks! This was a tough one!

[@RCVOODOO]

Nice. Looks like you got it figured out. I dont recall mine ever having those issues. I think the servo horn was key. Good work another successful rescue💪

[@RoadsideRC]

Thanks! I do appreciate your help, and hope you had a good trip. The steering on this really stumped me for awhile.

[@RC_Ludz_N_Co]

Really cool video, interesting and something new to work on. Nicely done. Cheers.

[@RoadsideRC]

Thank you!

[@sparkyengineering7149]

I have one too and have found it tricky to get it to drift consistently. I have found putting more rake on the forks does help. I have got to try your switch trick of a pulling rather than a pushing steering system. Looks like it will make it more predictable. Cheers a bunch for this video.

[@RoadsideRC]

The other thing to look at is the gyro - which one are you using?

[@blacksheeprc8113]

That's awesome Troy keep up the good work brother keep an RC in another brother's hand I love it

[@RoadsideRC]

That is what I try to do!!!

[@islandrc-duke1972]

Cool rc and great mod

[@edsanderson8603]

Wow! Way cool. Thanks.

[@RoadsideRC]

Thanks for watching!

[@Thunder-xo1cx]

Nice video ,the steering is a problem for sure, you can also install some springs on both sides of the steering Rod and get almost 90 degree steering angle

[@RoadsideRC]

Springs on both sides could also make sense! Good tip!

[@Thunder-xo1cx]

@@RoadsideRC found the vid I watched a while ago , those things look like great fun, it's probably like every RC it takes a bit of tinkering around with it and also pending on everyone's liking and driving style. I know from drifting and crawling you take you're Buddy's vehicle and wonder how they drive it lol. Here is a link kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZoCrh5ahfdqap8k

[@one2tumble]

Looks like you’ve been burning some rubber in the chevelle/malibu. I’d love to see a walk around video of it

[@RoadsideRC]

It is on my to-do list of videos! Perhaps during some down-time during the holidays!

[@TestECull]

Hmm. Maybe I should bring my SC10GT over one day. I'm not trying to drift with it but it's VERY spicy when I lean into the OS 18CV-RX. Last time I put a gyro on it the truck was completely undriveable; either it chattered itself all around or the steering just didn't work at all because the gyro wasn't allowing my inputs to get to the front tires. Kinda scary not having positive steering control over a 40+MPH short course truck, so the gyro got ripped back out and yeeted. I'd rather have to deal with babying the throttle than having a truck that won't steer when I tell it to, yanno? Have a sub-0.1s Savox servo up front that's got more than enough torque for the application. Truck drives GREAT on grippier surfaces, but get it on loose dirt and it's almost uncontrollable at anything >1/4th throttle. Might make a neat video, too, having some nitro fun on here! And hey if we can get it to do shallow drifts/powerslides all the better! Look and sound AWESOME being able to hang the back end out a bit.

[@RoadsideRC]

Maybe you should get into racing? Nitro buggy is really popular at RC Farm!

[@TestECull]

@@RoadsideRC I'm not a competitive person. Tried it before, fun to drive on a track but not something I wanna get super competitively into. If I did, I have a Tekno NB48 2.0 I could run out there! Would have to change engines though; I put an OS 30VG in that thing which makes it an absolute hoot to drive but the fuel economy is terrible and it's entirely too big for any rule book hahahaha

[@AgeOrmstad]

Good job👌

[@RoadsideRC]

Thanks!

[@steveyates1098]

Brilliant I'm learning alot from these drift rescues . Just a quick thought if you spin the forks through 180 Deg would it gain more steering angle as it would push wheel forward and increase the wheel base making it less twitchy ?

[@RoadsideRC]

I tried that (off camera). It still worked, but the link geometry was wrong based on where they mounted. I was with you though!!!

[@maximumrpm1868]

One thing that I would have tried would have been to rake the whole steering angle back like what you said it could do. And my reasoning behind that is my dad's motorcycle has a very short rake so it makes it very flickable in the corners however higher speeds it has issues with stability. That rake is pretty much straight-up-and-down which means it's not going to be as stable going slow Or in the corners I would have raked it back just a touch And see if that word of made a little bit easier handling. Of course on again with An extra wheel behind I'm not exactly sure what that would do

[@RoadsideRC]

I did actually try that. Cut that section from the video, as it was getting quite long already. Since there is no lean to the trike, it resulted in very little contact patch as it turns. I am honestly not sure when/why it would be used for this design.

[@maximumrpm1868]

@@RoadsideRC I could see that being useful if for some odd reason you wanted to make a high speed thing because that amount of break would actually help. It obviously doesn't translate exactly the same but under my old 300 was all over the place while my new 650 is much more controlled because it has more rake to it. Either way it's a really interesting design kit

[@Storyracing387]

GT3B FOR THE WIN!! 😁

[@RoadsideRC]

Not perfect, but works.

[@Storyracing387]

@@RoadsideRC no, not perfect, but I dig it. I'd like to get a Noble, maybe tax time 👍

[@TheAusherGuy]

What aspects of the RC hobby you like the most? Drifting, crawling, bashing, drones, ect?

[@RoadsideRC]

Hmm. I would narrow it down to drifting and crawling. I get tired of break-fix-repeat cycle in bashing, and don't quite have enough time to devote to get serious enough about racing.

[@heavystarch100]

Danny Huynh uses these for some of his awesome trike creations. 🤔

[@RoadsideRC]

That makes sense!

[@palprs2438]

Hiya nice video..What spring do you use?

[@RoadsideRC]

Unfortunately, nothing specific. Just ran through some springs I had laying around until something worked.

[@palprs2438]

@@RoadsideRC Thx alot for help,found something ,and thx alot for nice video,worked out really nice

[@WoodsUnknown]

Which rc would you get for first drift car.

[@RoadsideRC]

First, answer AWD vs RWD. Here is a guide: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eHiviHquqth1rKs Then, I can guide you better.

[@RedwoodSawGuy]

Lol I just noticed the hole in his garage door 😂

[@RoadsideRC]

Hole? There isn't a hole in my floor...

[@TheElmer333]

Do you have a list of parts for the fix please

[@RoadsideRC]

There weren't really any parts used - just some random springs.

[@IowaBudgetRCBashers]

This thing turned out awesome.. send me an email Troy, link is in my about section, I’ve got something I wanna send you

[@RoadsideRC]

Just sent you an email