DuraTrax Cliff Climber
 

Does anyone have any info on this? According to Tower it should be available in 2 months but I havn't heard anything about it, and apparantly google hasnt either.

http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...?&I=LXURC2&P=0

It's not even on the DuraTrax website yet.

Good find, would like to get more details on this. Duratrax usually includes some decent features for a nice price. Sure wish it was 1/10th though

Technically the WK is 1/12 and the TLT is 1/18. Maybe these will be the perfect size? I hope one of "experts" has some info.

Decent price too! Ha I have a nice alternative axle for a scale build.

Hmm.... Looks like ARR and RTR versions..
http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...AdvancedSearch

Is it solid axle? I haven't seen any pics or specs.

Its got my attention!

I haven't seen it yet but it sounds like a rock crawler to me.

everything duratrax makes is cheap, both in price and quality... Don't get me wrong, they have great designs, they just need to put a little more coin into the manufacturing process. I swear, EVERY duratrax car we ever sold came back within 24 hours needing repair.

if these are ment for serious crawling, they are going to take some serious upgrades.

my $0.02

I heard the duracrap rap before i picked up my miniquake.
I got one anyway, and I was impressed by it, especially the one year stresstech guarantee on the chassis and suspension components.
I have been beating the crap out of my MQ for about two and a half years now and only been through 4 steering knuckles and a couple of diffs, and this is with a 5000kv hyperion and 3s lipo. it has bounced back time and again. I'll definently be looking forward to this thing coming out.

ok, i was a little harsh, their mini's aren't bad, mini quake, vendetta, vendetta st.

but every evader (st, st pro, bx), nitro evader (st, bx), and warhead all are fragile.

I think this is great! Im glad more companies are stepping up and providing the crawling world with more options. No matter how well the quality of a product is, or is not, there will always be upgrade parts.

especially new cheap crawler.


$140 for an rc
what radio?
and batteries?
that will cost more than the RTR!!!11eleventy1!!

All I got was an invalid stock number...

At least Duratrax has the forsight to be one of the first MAJOR manufacturers besides Tamiya to get involved. I give HPI credit for coming out with a converison.. So what if there are noobs? Do you want the sport to progress? Then you have to let new people try it. I am a nitro buggy fan. But I decided to give the ax10 a try because I wanted something fun. Not have a serious rig. Now i am converting it to a scale truck, and I have enjoyed working on my ax10 more than my Mugen. And i realized how cool crawlers are and more about electric vehicles. No offense to anyone but I find electric race buggys boring. But if it wasnt for the ax10 I would have nothing fun to play with. Besides my girlfriend.

Of course we do... but we would also like to see smarter n00bs not asking the same question 50 times a day, and complaining when we say "Use the search button, it's on here already". If they are a little smarter, and not wanting every bit of info spoon fed to them, we might be a happier group of people.:lol:

You will find that no matter what kind of hobby your into, go on any other fourm. I drag race and i'm on several other boards and its the same thing you will have nOObs and they will ask there questions and if they pick up on stuff great if not they usaually go find the next big thing, BUT with out them and there I have to run this to win or whatever there would be alot less product to choose from so i welcome them and there over and over again questions and the VENDORS i'm sure love them too:mrgreen:

my lhs has not heard of the duratrax truck yet

but from what is available on the web its still 3 months out so im not surprised we have not heard anything yet

duratrax is not a brand that spends alot of time or money in advertising

i hope it is a rock crawler...the more trucks on the market the better
it just means more parts and more inovation for us

With the guarantee they have and whatever they make their parts out of you should be able to pound on these pretty decent. My ex g/fs nephew had a Duraterd buggy and he beat the SHIT out of that thing and never managed to break it.

duratrax the one that gives a 1 year on plastic parts ?

Rambuller....
I was impliying rigs. Not tires. Not speed controllers. Axial is not that major of a company. Last 1/8 scale race buggy they released? Monster truck? truggy? 1/10 stadium truck? I own an AX10 and within the first 5 minutes of running it I realized what a massive design flaw the battery location is. R and R at some place like Losi or Associated wouldnt have resulted in such a piss poor design flaw in such a capable machine.
Axial is a small company in the RC world right now. I doubt it will stay that way. Unless crawling ends up becoming a "fad". Which unfortunatly happens alot in other industrys. Dumbass was a little harsh...but whatever. So calm down.
And I have not been like some noob and posting questions for veterans to answer. I know enough to look around.
Not trying to start anything but that dumbass comment pissed me off. I have been racing buggys for some time so I have been around. I also have had interest in RC for almost 20 years. Unless there is money to be made a company won't invest alot of money into it. Hence why Losi and other similar companies did not come out with a rig a while ago. It costs bigger companies more money to get something started. Axial went after a niche that noone up until now has. If bigger companies start to see money being poured into it then they will jump on the bandwagon. Tamiya obviously saw what their RC trucks were being used for sometimes. Hpi realized they could convert an existing vehicle to make it a crawler. And Axial knew they would have the sole product for a period of time. Duratrax is not being the fool in all of this.

Thats why companies like axial have released kits like this, not so they can be 100% rock worthy out of the box, it takes alot of knowledge to build a worthy rig and why should they release a rig that will be 100% rock ready, a little knowledge goes a long way, im glad to see a rig released that need a little work to be worthy"thumbsup"

:shock::shock::shock:...Wow
Well lets see, there is a new duratrax crawler coming out"thumbsup" Newbs are getting pounded, people fighting using their big Internet voices:shock:. BRB going to get my popcorn;-)

All in all every rig, and I mean every rig gets tweaked or modded in some way shape or form, as quoted on here in a signature, give 20 people the same parts and get 20 different crawlers. The axial may not be as comp ready as a rig built by Bender but his did not come out of a box with instructions. The axial kit is a great kit and I welcome the fact that other companies are noticing the increase of RC Crawlers. I own a Bender SW2 It is a great comp rig and I own a Axial Scorpion modded to my needs and it is one tough contender as well.

BTW all RC Cars break if you drive them right"thumbsup":lol::lol::lol:

Couldnt be said better"thumbsup"

I agree also. Regardless what any magazine says I don't think the AX10 is comp ready. I am actually going to buy a second one strictly for climbing and convert my current one to my scale truck. I don't have much interest in the Duratrax truck. Not because I dislike them in anyway, just I have one AX10, my mugen buggy and soon to be a second Ax10. Why get just another vehicle.
I will say this. I have heard multiple times that Duratrax uses older designs. The Raze buggy, the evader etc. At least this time maybe they will have something on their own. Or it will be a repackaged Axial. Which wouldnt surprise me.

AMEN!"thumbsup"

Now lets try to stay on topic.

One of my co-workers got a chance to drive a prototype yesterday from what I understand:shock: (wasn't at that store yesterday:-(), sounds like it's set up like a mini "Clod" and works well too!

yup, they might go broke from us crawlers!

Do you know what size it is or what size motors it uses?

Anyone got any pictures of it?

Well know it shows an invalid Stock Number...And You can't even search tower for Cliff Climber. My guess is Tower Jumped and posted it before Duratrax wanted them to. Thats just my guess.:lol:

Sounds like it's running 370 or 380 motors

My co-worker wanted to take a pic, but was told no:-(

X2, there was info on there and now it shows nothing

It uses (2) 380 size motors.
BJoe I had a good time on the course and hanging out talking to Jay. Sorry you missed it :D
Sorry I couldnt let him take pics. I should be able to post more info very soon.
J

I am not totally sure what Axial's reason was for the battery mount location but being the first production cralwer they were taking a risk and I am sure they wanted it to be marketable to as many people as possible. I would assume that the battery mount was done so people who already owned or had easy access to sub-c stick packs would have a simple place to mount them. Easy for a first time builder. I built my first RC over 25 years ago when I was 12 with no adult assistance. If they want to be able to market it to first timers with no experience I think it's a simple way to make the most widely availabe battery work.

I am glad to see more companies buiding crawlers and am truly interested to see what Duratrax comes up with.

Hey I've watched and read this board for years, I first joined last year. I use the search button on a regular basis. The only reason my post count isnt higher is I just figured out how to post. Now I can hit all the old skoolers with some sweet questions, like where can I get RCP maxsteerknuckles, who sells the TCS X-trail chassis, arent cantilever suspensions way better, and lastly who's this Bender guy? Oh yeah, Ill probably buy this Duratrax thing, I mean the nylints sucked too but hey it made me wow at my clods and tlts that much more. Ha, I said TLT they dont even make those anymore.... does that make me oldskool if I have 2 and 1 unopened in the box?

Interesting. Not using 540's because there is one for each axle maybe? An odd way to look at it, but whatever.

LOL. That's funny right there.:lol:

maybe a solid axle version of the mini quake is my guess. i mean maybe it isn't even solid axle. who knows

It is a completely new chassis, a purpose built crawler. Not a monster truck labeled as a crawler.