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Winch bumper back on though it straightened out slightly from sitting in my car, now have 4 recovery ponts mounted to body, winch is about 1/3 finished. I just need the retraction system, and a spool mounted to the bumper.
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Skyline7,

Stock with green motor and green gears they can pull a wheelie if there's enough traction. You can also do reverse to forward move which will bring the nose up very nicely even with less traction, but usually onto the back bumper since you don't have Propo throttle. If you put in a higher RPM motor, the nose comes up a bit easier though less torque so you do hit a limit; and you can even do a forward to reverse move which brings the tail up and drops it on the nose.

They can run in dirt, fairly small gravel, carpet, grass, clothes... These are 4wd, and pretty torquey, they can tackle pretty steep slopes, but lack of suspension travel is going to be your limit for crawling, and they don't articulate any stock. They come with Chevron tires, so they do pretty well on loose surfaces as long as you have them oriented self clearing. Gear ratios are pretty limited stock (4 sets total), but you can gear down pretty easily and go just about as low as you'd ever want. Fastest motor with fastest gearing is enough to slightly bog the truck from a stop so it takes a few seconds to wind up. These are setup more like Monster Trucks you'd see at a stadium this sunday...Sunday...SUNDAY, than something you'd see on a trail but that can be fixed if you want. There are pretty well documented modifications to make to improve those points. Definately get one, they're only $25 and can go more places than a ZZ or Bit, and they only get better with mods; if you don't like it you can just repackage it, and you've got a birthday present for somebody, and chances are once they start playing they'll love it!

I mean, I don't even like trucks and I've gotten into these things! They can't go everywhere, but they do open up many more possibilities to drive on than a Bit or ZZ ever could.