Traxxas Mono!

[Rumdog]

castle

With Traxxas having their own brushless systems I doubt that they would have Castle making a system for them but who knows.

Traxxas uses Castle products in their rtr monster trucks.

[ray schrauwen]

Who said this boat was not race worthy but you....?

Race worthy yes but, one hit broadside and the ABS hull is in Davey Jones' Locker.



ABS is good for sport boating but, if run in a crowd of boats, eventually it will see holes and cracks. The colder it is , the worse the problem.

Ask me how I know?

[ray schrauwen]

yes it could but its a Q class boat in size there is not a single Q class mono in our club at all. and probably very few in other clubs to.

This hull would be a snack in Q-MONO.

[Rumdog]

Sorry, how do we know it's abs?

[ray schrauwen]

Wow, It'a friggin rtr. Not a purpose built race machine. Don't buy it if you dont like it. Trust me, Traxxas knows how to market their product, and the WILL sell a TON. Guess what, they'll stock replacement parts and give excellent customer service as well!

This is accurate, it is a good RTR. Traxxas does make nice rtr dtuff and does serve its customers well, just lose the "race" tag.

Definition of Racing Rc electric boats is impossible. We all have a racer inside, some more aggressive than others. Yes there are meatheads in racing and meathead sport runners too.

[ray schrauwen]

Sorry, how do we know it's abs?

Been doing allot of reading etc, and from the one video it looks like shoe box construction. Good indicators it is ABS. I'm not 100% sure but, from other forums, I have read it is ABS. If it is Glass, great, all the better.

[Doby]

So lets all stop making assumptions untill some facts are known....untill then know one knows anything.

[ray schrauwen]

o.k. here we are.

You can see at the transom there is the tell tale lip of shoebox construction. This only really means that it was designed with simple manufacturing techniques to lower the cost.

You can see the cowl is Definately ABS. I can tell at a distance (to a degree) if something is FG or plastic.

Here are some pics...

[Hydromaniac]

Glad to see all the "experts" condemming the performance of the boat already....they must have had advanced trial runs with it to make theses statements.

I race with some experts up here on occasion and quite often their boats are pushed to hard and end up on their backs....fastest does not always win the race....but I guess that thought never occured to anyone.

Oh well......

How can you condem the statements they are making as selling points in their videos???? Those are the the key points they make! No one is judging only going by what they state!! And I have found that most companies selling points are somewhat exagerated, so that should allow for some skeptisism! I actually race a Traxxas Villian that is kind of modified, in P P-spec off shore and do very well with it. I do like their hulls for some reason.

[Doby]

Not theirs,,yours...

[Hydromaniac]

Not theirs,,yours...

My statements are taken directly from Traxxas videos and press releases. No secrets, these are their power and speed claims not mine.

[Diegoboy]

I can't wait to see it in the LHS

[Doby]

A 36 inch hull is a Q and up boat, They state 50 MPH on a 6s set up which is Q, power Sorry but 50 is not goin to cut it in Q,S&T classes. The Hull looks great and I agree, it looks like a nice boat. But to make this RTR hull raceable there are other hulls that could be just as nice for less money in the long run.

Raceable can mean a lot of different things to many people,,from fun runs to SAWs and everything in between. Who cares if it doesn't perfectly fit one of the current classes in either of the two main organizatons.

Just about every RTR boat on the market, gas or FE is marketed as "Race Ready" these days. What are they going to put,,,,"Display Ready"???

Buy it if you want,,,use it for fun running or racing,,,will it win a lot of races, who knows, but the main idea of this hobby is to have fun.....some people really take the race thing to seriously for their own good.

How many people supported their family's racing RC boats last year? So why do we do this.....FUN

[Jeepers]

Glad to see all the "experts" condemming the performance of the boat already....they must have had advanced trial runs with it to make theses statements.
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Funny I don't think anybody's saying the the performance of the boat sucks I think it runs well for an RTR and it looks sweet.

I wish Traxxas would have built it shorter and I would probably buy it and use it in P spec off shore for fun as it looks good. (I hate the looks of the Delta Force and Rico boats) but its to long for me. If it is abs I would not put in Q mono/Qoffshore at all, the heavier boats would as Ray put it "make a snack out of it" in a collision.

Traxxas makes a product that stands out in this arena but limits it users. And I don't see clubs jumping all over it just to make a class out of it.

If people have read recently what is going on in Namba, proposals are trying to limit classes.

[Jeepers]

Not theirs,,yours...

Doby did you watch the video? they do say 50mph on 6s!