BOY...dont I know how you feel. I have to travel to Nagaoka this month and then stay there for about a year...A YEAR. But it has ALOT more space and great mountains. So the my VT2 mountain bike is going to get a good workout as well an the traxxis. Not taking the MT2 out for a while yet. I contacted this guy from [email protected] about a serisouly strong and sick 2speed and conversion bracket for the STS .28 to slap in my the beastly MT2. Should push that puppy upto at least 70Mph...? and from what I understand the gears are all steel so I can take it offroad more although I cant take any nasty jumps with it, just normal bush bashing should OK. MMMmmmmmmm, speeeeeeeeeeeeed.