[Espeefan]

Impressive, but totally overkill. I like it! None the less, I just don't see any need for 9 gears. Three seems about right, and when I had a 3 speed truck, I found myself most often running in 2nd gear. It was a good in between gear. Now my latest truck has a really simple one speed planetary gear head motor and that doesn't bother me one bit. It's more compact, stronger, and can handle all kind of torque. Yes, I gave up shifting the gears, but that's one less thing to worry about, it frees up a channel on my radio, and I just never found myself shifting gears all that much anyway. It's fun for a little while, but if your driving your truck in a tight place, about the only place you do get up to top speed is in an open parking lot. Unless you've got some aux. gear reduction.

I wonder how much backlash that 9 speed has. Tamiya's 3 speeds have way to much.