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Unread 20-08-2012, 09:18
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Mentor now :(
AKA: Ian Pudney
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quinxorin will become famous soon enough
Re: "Gearing for speed" criticism

You are quite right in that top speed isn't that much of an issue. The standard 12.75:1 Toughbox offers a good speed - going above that is usually pointless. In 2011, my team felt that we needed speed very bad, so we built a super fast drive train. Unfortunately, that was the wrong speed - we could go from one end of the field to the other before our arm could lift up to score. Whoops.
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