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but fast is so fun!

but with pneumatic tires I hope you like tripping breakers and going in a straight line. get it to under 10 fps and maybe, maybe you will be able to turn, but it will still suck juice like crazy. And trip breakers. with a one speed, if you expect to own the hill at all, you have to gear it to 3-6 fps . . . we are gearing ours to 3.5 fps using a four motor drive, so you can get an idea of what kind of power you need to put out to truly own the hill . . . unless you build something like that insane swamp thing. I have nightmares about that. Although I suppose one could jump over it, turn around and push it all over the place if one wasn't too attached to one's robot.