The Rio is a great boat...easy to maintain and fast in the water. My cousin has one and I do all of the mantainence....including greasing the shaft. He bought the Grimracer stuff along with his boat, but this thread has opened my eyes to other alternatives once this grease runs out. Beware.....if you come up against someone with a brushless boat.....your need for speed my increase dramatically......but the Rio is a great, forgiving, easy to run boat that should should satisfy all your boating needs for playing in the water
ORIGINAL: tilbarr
Well I got home from work and my box from Tower Hobbies was here.....wife not home so stuck here and no trip to pond so went out to my 24" round pool with the new boat. I have only had slow moving scale boat (scooner, subs, tug, a flower class destroyer, and a PT boat which was a little fast but a Lindberg model so not all that fast though). This thing can move, cvould only get it up to full throttle in turns but they were tighter that I thought they would be. Cannot wait to get this thing out into some open water to open it up, nearly shot it out of the pool. That is when I decided to call it quits......but neaded to get a little running out of my system. Already thinking [&:] of going down to see the guys in the metal shop and have them form me up a couple of thinner rudders for this boat for a better cut. And to my dissapointment the stickers are already pealing off, actually out of the box they were doing that.....so I can see a little shopping around for some pinstriping and a couple of stickers to change the look to a little more my own.......Well batteries are charged and I am out to try out my other fathers day gift....a Associated RC10B4.1......a bashing I will goooooooooo
. By the way thanks " MsDarla " for the tip on Green grease picked it up on my way home after reading your post on my train ride home.