What's up everybody, welcome back to Vermont scale customs. Thank you for stopping by the channel. So let me first start by saying that I guess it must have been almost about a year ago when I really kind of started looking at these things pretty seriously, scraped to my head and wondering if it was at all anything that I should get into. And I probably waited till some time around like the end of November I guess and decided to go for it. My birthday is like the first week in summer and so I decided because they have like you know the firm six payment plan or whatever you can nice airplane flying over right as I don't believe so. Anyway since they have the six payment plan I figured it broke it down into like $133 a month so I went for the RTR because I you know knowing nothing about MOAs and how to program stuff yet well actually since I just programmed my other MOA because that of course was inspired by having this. Anyway I'm just learning this whole thing I just know really basically just got into this and these are the first runs pretty psyched about this thing, pretty psyched what it can do including this coming out this was a complete surprise it totally caught me off guard. The only I can say is that I'm really happy that I had the camera running and pointed in the right direction that it caught all of it because this was something that as far as I'm kind of concerned kind of defied the laws of physics at least for me but it's real world stuff you know it's things that when you mess around with these comp rags on sharp jagged rocks like this it's gonna do the funkyest stuff that you've never even imagined was possible it's gonna show you all kinds of random random things about physics that you just didn't even know were a reality so this is kind of cool and that's something that I guess maybe it's kind of indicative of what kind of style I may end up kind of having for driving and stuff because I snowboarded for over 30 years of my life and used to build terrain parks and stuff and ran snowcats and everything so jumps and clearing gaps for some reason is just inherently in my blood and so well I kind of think I have a little bit sort of a mellow approach to some crawling things there are some kind of go for it aspects to the way I drive and it's coming through with this thing so oh no all right so this is attempt number one at this interesting line that I found this is probably about 16 inches tall at its peak and of course this thing just walks right open with no problem that even trying to use dig or anything like that it just goes and once you get around up to the top up here there's a larger boulder that you see to the left and that's basically my target of this line and I really had no idea what my plan was yet and I'm really just feeling it out so I ended up fast forwarding through but is the first mistake coming up here pretty quickly obviously I'm just way too far in so here's the tent number two you now I know a lot of people really like to obviously modify these with the electronics and motors and everything of their choice and stuff I did not get that deep into this thing yet I really just bought an RTR because I wanted to run one and get used to it from from that angle and then kind of pulled the part of them and sort of take it as it comes I figured out that by adjusting the dual rate of not only the steering but the throttle itself it gets you a lot more control I know a lot of people don't like the electronics in this thing they kind of talk trash about it pretty consistently great fall off this that's probably about six feet down by the way it was nice and I'm very glad that I put a metal roof on it because it definitely helped save that full metal thing right there but back to the electronics I dialed the dual rate throttle down to I think it's like 70 or 71% and then I put a 70 kilogram brushless servo in the thing and I believe I had steering pushed up to about this is dual rate I think a dual rate pushed to about 103 104 percent front and rear axles are clocked I have also swapped out some of the rod ends for the angled rod ends mainly the top links and then I also took out the long rod ends on the rear because I wanted to shorten this to WRCCA standards for worlds in September and Maine and so I wanted to drive it that way all summer long and so based upon my whole experience yesterday obviously there are you know things that could probably be done to this but my first experience with this and I'm gonna drive it like this and I'm gonna learn it like this and I'm going to do my best to try and build my experience you know totally around you know how this is right now and as the summer goes along if things fail and stuff like that then I will seek to either replace them or if it feels like this thing is gonna fall apart and it's not gonna hold up then perhaps I'll you know look at building another rig but right now I'm perfectly content and perfectly happy without this thing runs um my apologies in advance for getting so off center with this um this is a really nice segment actually as far as I'm microns are in anyway this little gap coming up again good little hole that this thing I'm trying to avoid staying on it this is all about chest high to me and so there's like about a four or five foot drop like right into this little hole that you see kind of down at the bottom of the camera so this next move just another one of those quick little try and shoot the gap and now the front definitely outweighs the back end of this thing now that it's over it you know it'll pull itself over and you can see the rear wheel kind of floats a little bit through this whole spot not much but enough and I make it to the other side and I really wanted to go further up this but there was no route I just wanted to see basically how how much of it goes so I tapped number four at this but I do something different at the top and this isn't really true hang gang it's not like 90 degrees off a cliff but I decided to take the other side up and it's ledged out it's pretty steep off that side definitely holding on by the inside of the left tires so as I get to the top I start to kind of go left but I decided I didn't want to make that run again because I knew I wasn't going to make it and I felt like that there was a way that I could get downing around through this back to where I just was and try and recreate that crawl so I head down that way and I get stuck under a ledge and I'm trying to get out from under it and just to let you see and let me look at what's going on afterwards I do this and I got it because I thought it was going to yeah I thought it was going to work out somehow and speaking of trying to bridge the gap on stuff like I said a few minutes ago this seems to be kind of indicative of my driving style very early on and I'm not sure if it's something I want to kind of focus on or like kind of stay away from doing but in any rate that rock to the lower left well middle left on the side that's my target I'm trying to get there and set up but the left wheel is about to get hung which is already done it's kind of grooved out in there and I won't let go and that's what I'm trying to do I'm just trying to gap the other side and it just rolled on through so needless to say I really like to think a lot you're going to see much much more of it I'm very happy with how the RTR is and I'm sure that I would be absolutely crucified you know by a lot of the veterans in this hobby for saying something like that but that's what I got you