well sunday me and my old man whent to a bbq out of town on a cattle station, we both ran two lipo,s and two nimh battery backs and had a ball, there was around 30 people there and every one had a good look, my old man let any one including 5 y/os drive is but i didnt let any drive it and was told im a big meany lols.
the ground was very dry and hidden in the 3 inchs of grass was rocks from the size of golf balls to grape fruits, every one said our mervs did amazing tricks and flip,s witch was funny as we didnt do any tricks, but every time the mervs hit a rock to big to slide over then did impressive front flips with 90% of them landing on the wheel,s.
i did pull a sweet back flip only about 6 or 8 foot high of a embankment near the dam, pitty it wasnt caught on film, the range on these traxxas 2.4ghz high out put radios is sweet we where cruzzing aroung more then a footy feild and struggled to see the cars at that distance.
as mentioned the ground was very dry and rocky and we both were worried about the rocks and busting the cars, but these tuff little merv,s didnt break well the dodgy band aid i put on mine broke in the first contact with a rock, but i still ran 4 battery packs through it.
the wheelie bar didnt detach its height adjustment once, but int he dry coditions it wasnt realy needed as it was hard to get much traction out of the dry dusty ground.
yesterday i installed the new lower front a arm that turned iup in the mail and we took the merv out to our local swimming hole to give it a run on hard packed clay i ran 2 x 2s lipo,s in parallel but managed to set off the thermal protection after running through some long weeds and getting them wrapped around the rear wheel,s i turned it off and back on again but uplugged one of the batteries and kept running till one battery was dead then plugged in the second battery and kept running the thermal shut down didnt kick in again.
the ground was ruff as and there was alot of roots sticking out of the ground so the poor merv did a ship load of full throttle flips after hitting roots or stumps it couldnt drive or slide over, but it was fun sliding all over the place, at full throttle it would just spin out and slide all over the place, very hard to control but loads of fun, so when moved over to the other side once the lipos where flat and hooked up 2 x nimh in parrellel.
when we took it over to the other side near where we swim and did some jumps and so on the ground is more loose and dusty over the other side so it was great fun driving around, it was that dusty you could see clouds of dust drifting over thye water my wife whent to take some video, but we left the sd card in her laptop at home so no vid,s.
but here is a pictuer of our loacal swimming hole
