That radio looks sweet. The price point that the Chinese companies have for their electronics and what all you get just makes you feel dumb for buying a Spektrum, Futaba or Sanwa system anymore.
My first RC was a slash, found a brushless motor and ESC. I knew nothing about RCs and battery sizes and assumed a 4S battery from my FPV quad would be fine. Installed, turned it on, sent it down the road. I passed a car going by me on a 55mph road, smoke began billowing out of the Slash....and now I only have a drift car and Vanquish Crawler. I slowed down after that 😐
For someone who's technically inclined EdgeTX (RadioMaster etc. use it) is very powerful. It's quite a logical system but some kind of things you are going to have to figure out (or copy) how to program. People often wonder "why doesn't it do X" which is usually because to do X you combine Y and Z.
Hey Josh I know you guys have been real busy with the move and everything else. Just wanted to say thanks for keeping the news going and all the other entertaining things that take place on your channel.
0:44 “I’m gonna buy one and paint it yellow just to be a public menace by driving it around and triggering long-latent earworms” was my first thought when I saw that Losi announced the Mini Megalodon
I bet I got my Tamiya Falcon close to 20 mph with a Trinity Monster Horsepower motor and a stock RC10 resistor mechanical speed control. All with a 6 cell NiCD. It was cooking!
97mph caught on radar with a Traxxas rustler with all the top dog castle stuff and huge pinion set ups back in the day, my uncle made me a front bumper that would hold weights so it wouldn’t try and do wheelies all the time😂 I wanna say that was about 10-12 years ago
20 years ago, I built a 1st Gen Nitro Stampede. Traxxas had just released the 2.5 motor, and I got a screaming deal on a bunch of purple aluminum parts that Tower had on close out. I went all out on that build. On the first run, she went full throttle right into the ONLY sign post within a few hundred yards. She exploded into a debris field of broken plastic, wheels, and A Arms. I built that truck for my oldest son. He never got to drive it. I still have it, and she's undergone a full restoration. It's crazy to have a mid 90's Nitro rig that you can still buy almost any part for. This time, she's getting the 3.3 😆 and maybe a TSM or equivalent receiver.
Yes. Kids love it and they had an extened version of Megalodon at the show you could buy tickets to ride around the arena. We got there late and did not get tickets.
Great video as always and thanks for the news. Gotta have one of those flysky radios, it looks very good. Fastest I’ve done was 75mph with my Traxxas Maxx 1st gen all stock. That’s fast enough for me lol, I enjoy my crawlers much more than speed runs.
So yeah, I have bounced back and forth with the speed bug. I love my crawlers. But going fast is fun too. Drag slash build was a good balance. Keeping it on 2s keeps it from getting insane. 4.5 turn random ass purple motor, mambax esc, and as much gearing as it will pull. Local cop tried to radar the thing and claimed he saw 70. But the fastest I put together by far was a 4x4 slash, with a 1/8 scale setup(2000kv 1515, monster x esc 6s). It required x01 drive shafts because kept destroying cheapo crap. I have no idea how fast it was going, but driving it was a problem. Way faster than I had skills for. I still get it out once in a while, drive it until I crash it. Then shelve it until I get the itch to put it back together and go again. But the most fun pr dollar? 2wd slash, rustler, stamped, with a cheap brushless setup soft enough not to tear up axles, decent servo, and rpm arms.... nothing else. Bash the living crap out of it, never breaks anything (exept maybe a bent shock here or there), send it to the moon without a care. Or 2 of them set up equal (same kv/gearing) and race on 2s with a buddy.
I went 96 off road with my arrma Kraton 6s but then it caught on fire directly afterwards. I was smart and unplugged the battery through the pain and the fire quit immediately
I would almost paint the door the same color as the wall. Let it blend into the backdrop better. I have a band new limitless new in box with a 8s system for it that I wanna get ripping this summer. I also have a 6s infraction I wanna get ripping!! Think 60 is my top speed atm.
You and your Canadian friend should try to make it to Michigan for the Great Lakes Gauntlet in September. It's always been the same weekend as PLBTF but it looks like that has been moved to October.
Megaladon just looks like the Walmart RC that's been around forever. I'm not in the Monster Jam world much either, but I do know that I would have preferred a Max D, just because of the three or so Monster Jam shows I've taken my boys to, it was always the craziest in the freestyle. Flysky 11 channel radio with all that for $200 is amazing! I think they should do a 10 car memory for $125 or so, for us that can't bear spending as much on a radio as a car. I think the fastest I've ever measured is like 35 mph with my E-Maxx LOL.
I got a Mojave grom to about 70 lol. I have a few buggy’s that probably got close to 100. Not really into the speed runs. Love crawl comps and offroad dirt racing. Really love seeing rooster tails lol.
Limitless V2 did 122mph on the first day out, max6 g2 4990 1650 kv. It's good for close to 140 but I got an xlx2 ESC on the way to make it 200mph capable.
The fastest I have gone would be 60+ with GPS verification with a 1/5 Kraken VESLA. It was probably about the same as my old nitro touring car I used to race now two decades ago. That thing was unbelievably fast especially for the time.
Estimated I’ve only gone roughly 55-60 I have a losi Baja Rey with upgraded motor and esc not sure how fast it is but the 55-60 was from a slash 4x4 I had and you can reach top speed but not easy to control with the parachute body on top
55 with my slash. Wasn't built for speed so I was happy. Really interested in the flysky. Had the fs4 and loved it but couldn't get rx's anymore. Switched to spektrum. Maybe it's time to switch back. Load up on rx's and ill be set. Let's go KOH! Come on Erik Miller Miller Motorsports!
I had a 10 channel FS twin stick radio and even though it was cheap, it worked really well and I could program it to do what I wanted easily. I’d be interested in this new on just on the basis of what I pay for futaba receivers. I’m not sure what the top speed was but built a Estes rocket powered midnight pumpkin on a fiberglass chassis years ago. This D size motors ramp up in a hurry.
I’m not a speed guy, but i think my infraction did like 56 on 6s, i just use it to drift around big parking lots at work. I think its funny how tamiya and traxxas both use the same outdated platforms and sell wild amounts of vehicles.
I started with small cars in the 70's. With tether cars. Had a Cox 1.64 powered streamliner that I had running in the 160's. When I went to buggies, I put together a losi JRX with a big block (540) and using an 8 cell cheater pack ran it at the dragstrip at 72 mph before it caught on fire. I've got all modern electronics in an RC10 that does an easy 40. But is quick as heck. Really don't do fast anymore, it costs to much. Going slow, ? I've only got about $1600 into my G-Speed and about 2000 into my Vanqhish. (Sorry bout the transmission, but it had to go. I've thrown 3 of those in the junk box now.) I'll prolly stick to rocks now that I live in the woods, but a rally car would work. Rambling, sorry. Be well all.
4wd is great for parking lot drifting, simple to drive without gyro. RS3 sport is not because the steering linkage is very sensitive to small rocks. If they did James Deane's driftmasters S15 I might buy that
You know I've got to be honest here. My little on-road go fast car stage was back before there was a way to act the track how fast they go so I don't know how fast I've actually driven an RC car
Ehhh, fastest I have gone was about 40mph, that was running TLR22SCT. We had an 2wd open class Short Course Trucks. That truck got me a lot of trophies
I have an old RS4 Sport 3 with the E30 M3 body that I got to 62 miles per hour and that was pure insanity, no control at all lol if I would have messed up that car would have disintegrated lol
The radio looks interesting. I am considering a Noble NB4+ but I’ll definitely look at that one. The MT12 and me wouldn’t mesh very well. I need an idiot proof radio
Id say the monster jam character based trucks are definitely more for the kids. I think grave digger among others are more widely popular and also hit the older set. Imo
I haven't done any speedrun videos, nor have I shared any of my speedrun results. It is less about "not wanting to share that info", and more about my speedruns (so far) just being for my own personal interest. That said, I will indicate my top speeds with a few different vehicles are in the triple-digit range. Maybe, at some point in the not-to-distance future, I might start providing that info...but, for now, my speedrunning is for my own interest, as I'm not trying to show off (at the same time, I'm also confirm I am nowhere near holding any records).
I like the Megiladon 18, but I'd like to see a crawler vrsion. There is a 24/18 crawler event coming up this Saturday, at Dimond Valley Lake, Hemet California. I know these events happen included in other larger RC events, but this is just micros. A lot of micros. Is there another micro only crawls like this?
I have went 116 mph with my limitless the car is set up to do over 150 on 6s but running the car is nerve racking that it is going to crash and go up in flames 🔥 and burn up all my money I have in it .
It would be interesting to see how the Orange Bumpkin's 10% tariff on Chinese imports will affect the prices of rc products imported from China. Looks like it was neglected to inform folks that these tariffs would raise prices of rc products in the US as local importers pay the tariff, not the Chinese manufacturer.
I am glad they do the bodies we can not do ourselves. Megalodon. Yes i have been to monster jam. I went to one of the earliest Bigfoot shows at a local track. I was in the the pits and got to help out a little as a 16yr old i was hooked. I will buy megalodon and thought Losi did a masterful job and the body parts executed perfectly. I know people who are infamiliat with Monster jam will see a toy shark but i think they made a goid choice. I am sure more on the way.
The fastest I’ve gone with an RC is 52mph with my Baja Rey. I want the speed chassis pretty bad. I’ve been wanting to build a speed run car or truck. How ever everything is on hold till the new Origin comes back on line.
the hammers has been on since December i was outhere partying at chocolate thunder before Christmas the lakebed has been full ever since heck im still here lol
That radio looks sweet. The price point that the Chinese companies have for their electronics and what all you get just makes you feel dumb for buying a Spektrum, Futaba or Sanwa system anymore.
Kids love going to real monster jam show’s. I am 100% sure they will all want to have one. And kids love Lego’s. We’ll see🤷🏾
With Pro-Line by the Fire having a 50's theme, I hope Pro-Line comes out with some late 40's and 50's bodies that are not just Power Wagons.
When I was a kid it was Max D.
My first RC was a slash, found a brushless motor and ESC. I knew nothing about RCs and battery sizes and assumed a 4S battery from my FPV quad would be fine. Installed, turned it on, sent it down the road. I passed a car going by me on a 55mph road, smoke began billowing out of the Slash....and now I only have a drift car and Vanquish Crawler. I slowed down after that 😐
We really need axial fest west at Cisco grove again, the terrain over there isn’t even comparable to Robb’s resort
For someone who's technically inclined EdgeTX (RadioMaster etc. use it) is very powerful. It's quite a logical system but some kind of things you are going to have to figure out (or copy) how to program. People often wonder "why doesn't it do X" which is usually because to do X you combine Y and Z.
Hey Josh I know you guys have been real busy with the move and everything else. Just wanted to say thanks for keeping the news going and all the other entertaining things that take place on your channel.
0:44 “I’m gonna buy one and paint it yellow just to be a public menace by driving it around and triggering long-latent earworms” was my first thought when I saw that Losi announced the Mini Megalodon
I bet I got my Tamiya Falcon close to 20 mph with a Trinity Monster Horsepower motor and a stock RC10 resistor mechanical speed control. All with a 6 cell NiCD. It was cooking!
97mph caught on radar with a Traxxas rustler with all the top dog castle stuff and huge pinion set ups back in the day, my uncle made me a front bumper that would hold weights so it wouldn’t try and do wheelies all the time😂 I wanna say that was about 10-12 years ago
Seems like you should do a baby shark build along now based on that hood.
20 years ago, I built a 1st Gen Nitro Stampede. Traxxas had just released the 2.5 motor, and I got a screaming deal on a bunch of purple aluminum parts that Tower had on close out. I went all out on that build. On the first run, she went full throttle right into the ONLY sign post within a few hundred yards. She exploded into a debris field of broken plastic, wheels, and A Arms. I built that truck for my oldest son. He never got to drive it. I still have it, and she's undergone a full restoration. It's crazy to have a mid 90's Nitro rig that you can still buy almost any part for. This time, she's getting the 3.3 😆 and maybe a TSM or equivalent receiver.
Hey Josh, if you buy the meg body only, just know losi did have to alter the rear of the frame so it wont just pop on to the other chassis.
Ive been runing a Flysky Nobel NB4 for 4 years. They make excellent products.
Megladon is one of the most popular monster trucks over the last several years. Kids especially like it too.
Yes. Kids love it and they had an extened version of Megalodon at the show you could buy tickets to ride around the arena. We got there late and did not get tickets.
Great video as always and thanks for the news. Gotta have one of those flysky radios, it looks very good. Fastest I’ve done was 75mph with my Traxxas Maxx 1st gen all stock. That’s fast enough for me lol, I enjoy my crawlers much more than speed runs.
Love your show! Great content.
80mph Arrma Typhon w/GPS..
with stock Corally electronics.
Keep it up Brother! 🤘🏽
80 something with my 4tec.
all of my crawlers have vicious wheelspeed though. Sometimes the best line is in the air.
So yeah, I have bounced back and forth with the speed bug. I love my crawlers. But going fast is fun too. Drag slash build was a good balance. Keeping it on 2s keeps it from getting insane. 4.5 turn random ass purple motor, mambax esc, and as much gearing as it will pull. Local cop tried to radar the thing and claimed he saw 70.
But the fastest I put together by far was a 4x4 slash, with a 1/8 scale setup(2000kv 1515, monster x esc 6s). It required x01 drive shafts because kept destroying cheapo crap. I have no idea how fast it was going, but driving it was a problem. Way faster than I had skills for. I still get it out once in a while, drive it until I crash it. Then shelve it until I get the itch to put it back together and go again.
But the most fun pr dollar?
2wd slash, rustler, stamped, with a cheap brushless setup soft enough not to tear up axles, decent servo, and rpm arms.... nothing else. Bash the living crap out of it, never breaks anything (exept maybe a bent shock here or there), send it to the moon without a care. Or 2 of them set up equal (same kv/gearing) and race on 2s with a buddy.
Had a nitro 4tec I modded hit 107mph. Couldn't keep tires on the thing it would shred a new set down to foams in about 10 mins.
RcCaraction invited me to go one year. Pretty awesome toy fair! It was the year that the HPI FJ Cruiser was supposed to be released. I seen it first 😆
If that new fly sky radio has as premium of a feel as the mt12 that thing might be my next radio.
I went 96 off road with my arrma Kraton 6s but then it caught on fire directly afterwards. I was smart and unplugged the battery through the pain and the fire quit immediately
That carisma platform is solid and can take a absolute beating
Axialfest west needs to be done up here in La/Orange county area. Would have record crowds
I would almost paint the door the same color as the wall. Let it blend into the backdrop better.
I have a band new limitless new in box with a 8s system for it that I wanna get ripping this summer. I also have a 6s infraction I wanna get ripping!! Think 60 is my top speed atm.
You and your Canadian friend should try to make it to Michigan for the Great Lakes Gauntlet in September. It's always been the same weekend as PLBTF but it looks like that has been moved to October.
Megaladon just looks like the Walmart RC that's been around forever. I'm not in the Monster Jam world much either, but I do know that I would have preferred a Max D, just because of the three or so Monster Jam shows I've taken my boys to, it was always the craziest in the freestyle. Flysky 11 channel radio with all that for $200 is amazing! I think they should do a 10 car memory for $125 or so, for us that can't bear spending as much on a radio as a car. I think the fastest I've ever measured is like 35 mph with my E-Maxx LOL.
I got a Mojave grom to about 70 lol. I have a few buggy’s that probably got close to 100. Not really into the speed runs. Love crawl comps and offroad dirt racing. Really love seeing rooster tails lol.
Hoping Axialfest West finds a better home next year. Loved the Donner Pass location.
Limitless V2 did 122mph on the first day out, max6 g2 4990 1650 kv. It's good for close to 140 but I got an xlx2 ESC on the way to make it 200mph capable.
Hope to see you at Beat the Creek. Drag Matt along lol 👍
I broke 50mph once with my old Erevo! I’m sure I’ve gone faster with a plane but I havent put gps on one yet.
You had it right Bigfoot is the original Monster truck that started it all
And plbtf is just getting bigger
The fastest I have gone would be 60+ with GPS verification with a 1/5 Kraken VESLA. It was probably about the same as my old nitro touring car I used to race now two decades ago. That thing was unbelievably fast especially for the time.
I have only ever gone 78. Speed running is fun though. I live in a rural community, so it's hard to find a good spot.
About 80mph with stock Arrma Felony with included speed pinion.
Have since upgraded to 8s esc and motor combo but have yet to make an 8s pass.
You know you could always do Axialfest Badlands. We are still enthusiastic and have great crawling.
Estimated I’ve only gone roughly 55-60 I have a losi Baja Rey with upgraded motor and esc not sure how fast it is but the 55-60 was from a slash 4x4 I had and you can reach top speed but not easy to control with the parachute body on top
55 with my slash. Wasn't built for speed so I was happy. Really interested in the flysky. Had the fs4 and loved it but couldn't get rx's anymore. Switched to spektrum. Maybe it's time to switch back. Load up on rx's and ill be set. Let's go KOH! Come on Erik Miller Miller Motorsports!
89 km/h, or 55 mph with a modified kyosho fazer mk2, and waiting for a new motor esc to arrive in order to improve it!
I had a 10 channel FS twin stick radio and even though it was cheap, it worked really well and I could program it to do what I wanted easily. I’d be interested in this new on just on the basis of what I pay for futaba receivers. I’m not sure what the top speed was but built a Estes rocket powered midnight pumpkin on a fiberglass chassis years ago. This D size motors ramp up in a hurry.
180mph but the RC was in the trunk 🤷🏻♂️
112 in a stock motor infraction with a hobbywing Max 6.
I've gone 80 in my AK-917 but the little HBX 16889 did 75 before the wheels exploded, and I had to pick it out of the ditch lol
Thanks man 💯🚘🍻 Great episode
I’m not a speed guy, but i think my infraction did like 56 on 6s, i just use it to drift around big parking lots at work. I think its funny how tamiya and traxxas both use the same outdated platforms and sell wild amounts of vehicles.
I started with small cars in the 70's. With tether cars. Had a Cox 1.64 powered streamliner that I had running in the 160's.
When I went to buggies, I put together a losi JRX with a big block (540) and using an 8 cell cheater pack ran it at the dragstrip at 72 mph before it caught on fire. I've got all modern electronics in an RC10 that does an easy 40. But is quick as heck.
Really don't do fast anymore, it costs to much. Going slow, ? I've only got about $1600 into my G-Speed and about 2000 into my Vanqhish. (Sorry bout the transmission, but it had to go. I've thrown 3 of those in the junk box now.)
I'll prolly stick to rocks now that I live in the woods, but a rally car would work.
Rambling, sorry. Be well all.
I love my flysky noble. Will be curious to see this one
4wd is great for parking lot drifting, simple to drive without gyro. RS3 sport is not because the steering linkage is very sensitive to small rocks.
If they did James Deane's driftmasters S15 I might buy that
129 with a limitless and 107 with a tamiya tt02
Triple Crown Hobbies! Del City, Oklahoma baby!!!
You know I've got to be honest here. My little on-road go fast car stage was back before there was a way to act the track how fast they go so I don't know how fast I've actually driven an RC car
45-65ish, mini e-revo, on its lid from backflipping cause of throttle blipping
Ehhh, fastest I have gone was about 40mph, that was running TLR22SCT. We had an 2wd open class Short Course Trucks. That truck got me a lot of trophies
Fastest ive gone with surface r/c was 160.2mph using a stock chassis Arrma Typhon.
Nice Segway to the channel membership!!! 😂
I have gone 45.2 on my drag rustler. Let off because I got scared.
I have an old RS4 Sport 3 with the E30 M3 body that I got to 62 miles per hour and that was pure insanity, no control at all lol if I would have messed up that car would have disintegrated lol
The radio looks interesting. I am considering a Noble NB4+ but I’ll definitely look at that one. The MT12 and me wouldn’t mesh very well. I need an idiot proof radio
Megalodon is great! The kids love it.
Id say the monster jam character based trucks are definitely more for the kids. I think grave digger among others are more widely popular and also hit the older set. Imo
I have done 90mph in my limitless on 6s have not run it on 8s yet been looking for a good place to do that first
What are those silly scooter things called? Boom! Segway! 💥
If you’re a 3 year old Megladon is super cool lol. My boy loves megaladon. And grave digger of course
I haven't done any speedrun videos, nor have I shared any of my speedrun results. It is less about "not wanting to share that info", and more about my speedruns (so far) just being for my own personal interest. That said, I will indicate my top speeds with a few different vehicles are in the triple-digit range. Maybe, at some point in the not-to-distance future, I might start providing that info...but, for now, my speedrunning is for my own interest, as I'm not trying to show off (at the same time, I'm also confirm I am nowhere near holding any records).
My personal best with my infraction was 105.
Nice door, lol!
78 mph, stock power system Arrma Felony, ended up doing a backflip Mercedes CLR style due to excessive rear downforce lol
Tomley RC did a drive video on the Nissan. Looked more 10th scale to me.
I’d really like to see axialfest move to the east coast
I've gone like 85mph with my RC's in the truck.
The Carisma is a R32 Skyline GTR.
No it's technically an audi lol.
Got my Kraton 6s to 58 MPH.
I like the Megiladon 18, but I'd like to see a crawler vrsion. There is a 24/18 crawler event coming up this Saturday, at Dimond Valley Lake, Hemet California. I know these events happen included in other larger RC events, but this is just micros. A lot of micros. Is there another micro only crawls like this?
7:46 That's exactly what USTE said 😢
I have went 116 mph with my limitless the car is set up to do over 150 on 6s but running the car is nerve racking that it is going to crash and go up in flames 🔥 and burn up all my money I have in it .
57 m/h with a traxxas summit brushless - too fast for that rc car but it was fun
57 in a drag car on 2s. Is the fastest I’ve recorded a speed that one of my RC’s were going. It is not that fast, but I’m not really worried about
i will buy you the radio! lmaom top speed for me was 57
Mini Meg is legit
It would be interesting to see how the Orange Bumpkin's 10% tariff on Chinese imports will affect the prices of rc products imported from China. Looks like it was neglected to inform folks that these tariffs would raise prices of rc products in the US as local importers pay the tariff, not the Chinese manufacturer.
My slash ultimate is geared for 60 and my OG stampede with Vxl brushless swap will only do 50s. Not a huge speed guy.
I broke 60 mph with my stock drag slash on 3s with stock gearing.
I'll be getting the hpi drift car. only because "odi" is awesome. but I'm a big-time FD fan and have many drift cars from other drivers
Known 45 with my 1/5th kraton, 50+with my v1 granite
You skipped the part about when vanquish will be taking orders for the H10 origin again 😃
My fastest RC was the first Traxxas E-Revo Brushless Edition, and I think I did 40mph on 4s lipo just a guesstimate 😊
I am glad they do the bodies we can not do ourselves. Megalodon. Yes i have been to monster jam. I went to one of the earliest Bigfoot shows at a local track. I was in the the pits and got to help out a little as a 16yr old i was hooked. I will buy megalodon and thought Losi did a masterful job and the body parts executed perfectly. I know people who are infamiliat with Monster jam will see a toy shark but i think they made a goid choice. I am sure more on the way.
The fastest I’ve gone with an RC is 52mph with my Baja Rey. I want the speed chassis pretty bad. I’ve been wanting to build a speed run car or truck. How ever everything is on hold till the new Origin comes back on line.
94mph is as fast as I got with my limitless
Hope to meet you at btc. In all of the years I've been you haven't come....
the hammers has been on since December i was outhere partying at chocolate thunder before Christmas the lakebed has been full ever since heck im still here lol
I think mid 80 mph with a rc drag car was the fastest I have gone.
My kid already wants megalodan lol
stock v2 infarction on 6s is as fast as I have gone with a rc (no clue the actual speed).
I went 90 with a vendetta
My kid wants the megalodon and is popular. I think a Max D or Avenger would have been cool, too.
Wow, you been eating powdered donuts😂🤣