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looks good that colour mate

Long story but ended up with another FMS Discovery. As with my other, repainted it and added rear LED lights. Few minor mods, mostly cosmetic. Also (as usual!) made a lightbar from keychain torch (hidden under 'box')

Thanks it’s my first bike ! I think it’s fairly easy to get used to. What gets trickier is setting the adjustments to the amount the gyro helps/deals with both pitch and yaw ie how much it leans or wheelies via the rotary dial on controller and the 3 riding modes remembering which is which. You can also limit top speed if hading over to younger kids otherwise always 💯and the crash structure at the front will break because it’s designed to save everything else like forks and frame in event of head on collisions I’ve replaced mine once due to finding the goal post other then that been lucky

A little vid of my first outing

I have a promoto and love the thing I won it so didn’t have to splash out£. They are expensive but a lot of fun and cheap to run so far the few parts that I’ve needed have been easy and fairly cheap to get hold of so no complaints so far 6months in

I believe that's a TA02 chassis because it has the shorter tub and angled rear body posts. Escort Cosworth body came with the TA02 so makes sense. They are not the original wheels but are Tamiya split rims that came on the Porsche GT2 and others. Nice one for collectors 🙂 Would be interesting to see the other car too.

What with the return to carp angling, i have been feeling i wont be getting a lot of time for rc cars been looking at the collection and figure i will prune down to a pair of 1/10 crawlers, pair of 1/18 crawlers and a pair of bashers this being the right number for me and my good lady to continue with the hobby, will start listing stuff soon

Small enough to make great little skatepark bashers and with just the right speed to hopefully not break.

Takes 2 minutes to get used to it, and by that i mean "how slow you go while still being manoeuvrable". Once at like 5mph, it basically drives like any other RC but with a huge turning circle. Took me less than a minute to drive it around, the gyro (and stabilisation) make this not comparable to bikes of old. Even my wife was able to immediately pick it up. When it falls over, it generally takes just a bit of throttle to stand it back up again, on tarmac. Most of the times. It will, obviously, fall over below a certain speed. It takes around, from memory, 30ish seconds for the gyro to spool up (and longer to wind down). It is a battery hog (and has phantom drain, so make 100% sure you unplug the battery - don't ask me how i know). The battery compartment is a bit of a faff. It's bigger (and heavier) than expected. It is confusing at a stand still (you turn left on the transmitter, and the wheel turns right - but it's the correct orientation, took me a hot minute to wrap my head around that one). Hm.. That's what immediately springs to mind when thinking back.

This weekend I thought after discovering my add on motor fan was the cause of all my spur threading I thought I’d give the brushless another go. And it works perfectly!!! Loving it again and using the Bugsta on our road it slides around almost like a drift car (which has now put that on my radar as a possible next purchase, along with the new 1/10 MJX)

Had one for 2 weeks. From my personal experience, the novelty wore off really fast. Yeah, it's cool hearing that gyro spin up (for quite a long time, i want to add), once or twice. It's also cool seeing the thing go down the road and wheelie, once or twice. And then.. well... yeah. That's about it. They are pretty flimsy, so while you can jump them, you're almost guaranteed to break it where the fork connects to the rest of the bike (i can't remember which reviewer it was, i wanna say RC Driver, broke it on the first drive there as well). Completely unusable in sand (i live near a beach), needs a large empty space with maybe a tiny jump, either concrete or dirt as long as there are no ruts etc. Dunno.. Wasn't for me. Twice or so was fun in the parking lot doddling around, but then got old quickly. That said, i'm not into bikes, so maybe someone else gets more out of it.

Having had a couple of rc motorbikes in the past , back in the 90’s was my first a kyosho kit which i got pretty good at driving, then many years later a thunder tiger nitro ducati which i just couldnt drive to save my life you could be in a huge car park with only 1 small obstacle in it and no matter how hard you tried you were going to crash into it. When the Anderson mt5 came out i thought it was quite a cool concept but never bought 1, but this promoto looks better in every way, my wife was asking me what i would like for Christmas and i gave her a link to 1 of these, so heres hoping and not chocolate and socks and trainers

I had the anderson m5 and found that to be very good, so the losi should be fun

I’m in the same boat, i desperately want one but would have to try and sell on other rc to fund it. I have no first hand knowledge though. I do think that it would be better than most of its predecessors, the gyro in particular otherwise, id be as interested as you to find out.