The key is to NOT drive them on the street. Curbs are your enemy. If you have nothing to hit you can't break it right? I realize in Belgium there is limited areas to run but am I silly to say get on the Euro-train to Germany for a race or 2??
If you hit anything solid with any R/C vehicle at 40- 60 KM/H, it will do damage. From the few video's I saw of this, it handles very well. You may want to start off with the Kyosho but you will first have to build it ( half the fun) then if it's no fast enough you are very limited to the mods you can do and there are a couple of those on Ebay right now and tons of accessories to mod it out. BUT....the mods for this bike are more for looks than function, you see the hop up parts are all cast aluminum, making the little bike heavier!! then you need the 28BB motor to get it back to speed. All the while the price starts creeping up to the price of the FM-1e. On Ebay the Kyosho is about $70.00 US dollars, the RX/ESC combo "Special" unit made only for this bike is also about $70.00 US, then the special battery "600Mah NiCad" is about 30.00 US. Lastly you will need a transmitter (Futaba Only) to go with it. You decide what you want for your money a
25cm long bike or a 45cm long bike that you can throw any r.c car motor into?
I should get paid by Thunder Tiger for all this advertising I am doing. I have heard of 3 people in the Metro-Toronto Canada area that are happy with their's.