 All right, Bobby, let her rip. 16. 10. Dude. That was like 80 miles an hour. Welcome to Road to Ride. I'm Bobby F.E.V. And this is the drip. This is Eric. This is Mako. And this is Shawn. I am this! Is the outlaw! Outlaw! This is a sub 250 gram five inch drone. Now when Shawn first put this together, we were really excited about the idea of doing freestyle with a five inch drone that was under this 250 gram limit that a lot of government kind of agrees. Certain rules are applied. Point is safe. This is safe. Apparently it's safe. According to the government, this is safe. But what we found when we flew this is this thing is crazy fast, way faster than any of us expected. I can't control it fast. Like it's crazy. You know, you originally put this together thinking that we could do some freestyle with this, but when we saw it just go, we were like, dude, this is almost like kind of a race quad. So we bought out Mako Reactra here to see, you know, could you do sub 250 gram five inch racing? I'd love to see you fly this around our track here that we got set up at the Chalet and compare it to one of your standard quads. I mean, have you done any... Yeah, it's a lot lighter. This is missing vital pieces. It has to be. That is a full five inch quad. And it's actually got the DJI system in it. When you first put it together, you did shark bite. I think shark bite system, right? Cause I thought it would be a lot lighter, but I was able to still keep it under 250 grams easily with the DJI. So you add a little bit more weight to the drone build, but you can save that weight by going to a little bit smaller batteries. So on here we got what's still a 650. Which means you still get about a six minute flight time. You guys, until you hold it in your hands and you realize how light it is, like I've been flying the DJI FPV. That's all I've found, right? This is less than the weight of half of a battery. Yeah. Like, it's silly. Let's get some laps and see what this does. It's not all about top speed either on a race course. Plus the batteries now. Right, yeah. 82. Yes. Yes. That's pretty awesome. 82 is really high. 82 well done. You think your race quad's faster than her? Let's try her race quad. Let's see what it does. Let's see what her race quad does. I think her race quad's faster than this. A sum of 250 running over 80 miles an hour. It's safe. It's legal. The government says it's safe. How fast do you think one of your normal race quads go? Maybe 95? 90? Oh, it could be a little faster. Oh, that is quick. I just wanted to start that off just to show you. I thought it was well enough. 99, exactly. And not a single bit faster than 99. That was terrifying. That was nuts. That was a little harder than 90. Theoretically, I bet it'd go 110. Yeah, theoretically, I think it could hit 110. But that was 99 miles an hour. Straight line speed, I think it's clear that outlawed. Well, while it is pretty fast, not quite up to full racer fast. Definitely faster than our freestyle quads. I think our freestyle quad is probably top out at like 70 or so. But there's more to race in these straight lines, right? Well, the big thing here is, normally, when you're pitching, I've been watching these guys race all day. And normally, when you're pitching something heavy around, when we're flying the DJI FPV, it's got so much weight. As you pitch around, and it starts just skidding backwards, because it has all that momentum, I think this lighter quad is going to have a massive, massive win. I don't know, but I also think having a little weight, I personally really like heavier freestyle quads. I think it helps me toss it more. So I guess, I'd like to see how it actually handles. We should have Mako do some laps with her normal drone, get warmed up, and then do it with the outlaw, and see how close can you get. So what's your setup, racing setup? My racing setup, first, I fly the Diatone GTM frame. It has six millimeter arms, so you are golden in a crash. You're going to survive that. I also fly the Caddox Nebula microcam because I fly a little bit of DJI too, so you can fly that with your racing quad. That's nice. Or with your digital quad. I fly hobby wing ESCs, I have a 60 amp, and I fly hobby wing motors. What's a KV on those motors? These are 2450 KV, 2207, 2207, it's perfect for racing. But this is totally a quad you could see at like a normal multi-GP race, right? Mine's a little heavier, a little bit. A lot of people are flying the lighter weight frames, but I really like the durability of this frame. And I'm running the Flight One flight controller, the Revol OSD Falco X. I have a tiny tank VTX by Rush, and I fly crossfire. I just love watching her as she gets to plane out the turns. 1735. 1735, because I've made the Divegate. Oh, that's going to be a good lap. Back in, she's tracking, keeping low, picking up speed. Back across the line. 1494, what a difference that Divegate makes. I mean, you've got like eight laps. Fastest time was 1494. Well, let's go out the fastest time. Wait, so what is that? Why? The Vista's getting really hot and she's trying to change the rates. Oh, here I got it. The button behind it is the back button. So this is a little neck fan. Keep us cool in the summertime. In Florida, because it's hot, but we're going to use it to cool off the Vista because it's always, these things get roasty, toasty hot. See, like every time they go into live chat and be like, talking about Vista's and air units, they're always like, this is the best. I'm like, dude, it says overheating. And they all come at crazy. They all laugh at me. That's the only thing I don't like about the Vista. Everything else about it's fine, but the overheating thing just kills it for me. Air unit for the win. Real low, mowing the grass. 20 seconds was a nice clean lap though. It's like I'm getting better already. See, like, look at that. Oh, great diving. It's like, it just takes some time to learn a whole new drone, a whole new rates. Oh, so much smoother too. So smooth. It's faster. 17 seconds. 17. It would have been 16. 17 second laps on a quad that you've flown three batteries on. 2.1 seconds off of your best time on your quad. I mean, I think it's pretty clear it's not, there's not like an immediate advantage, you know? I think if there was like a big advantage in terms of its nimbleness, like I think it would overcome it. Like I think 17 is a really respectful time for that quad and what'd you do? You did 15, you did 15 on your real race quad? 14.9, yeah. 14, it was pretty close to 14. Yeah. My thought process is that this just opens up the location possibilities for quad races. Like you can now, like let's say, we're at Oshkosh this week, up in Wisconsin. There's 700,000 airplane people there and what are we doing? We're flying tiny whips to the campground because you can legally, because it's light enough. Being able to fly this, obviously you still need to make sure you have safety precautions but not having to deal with the FAA would make things so much simpler to be able to hold races in different locations. Wait, so can I fly 250 gram drones anywhere or there's still restrictions on it? There's still restrictions and it varies country to country and if you have your 107 and you're following the rules it really doesn't matter like that much for what you can do. Gotcha. But in other countries it is a much bigger deal and if you don't have your 107 it also changes things a little bit more and the rules are ever changing but it always just seems that people draw a line at 250 grams. So it's nice to have something under that line and it's cool to see it actually working with full DJI. All right, so Bubby has been getting more into racing and I'd like to see if there's even a shot at him being able to keep up with a more seasoned racer while using the outlaw. And you've also flown that. You're a little bit more familiar with this. Yeah, I've flown it a couple of times back at Vando. This is from Bubby. That is some honesty from Mako. Yeah. Going to be an honest as can be. That's the 180 back in. Come on, Bubby, get through the gate. Into the chicane. Bro, this thing just, ah, I'm still up. Pushing through the chicane. Neck and neck now down to the starting line. First lap complete. Bubby takes it just one second ahead into the corkscrew. We got two and three. Still leading. Bubby absolutely blowing us away with his racing performance into the chicane and just barely keeping ahead of that straight line speed right there. That too is going straight on to Mako. Can she keep it through the corkscrew? Oh, we got contact! Mako's drone took out the outlaw. Oh man, Mako coming in for the finish. I guess there is something to a little bit more weight. Hey, there's no rubbing, there's no racing. That was really close though. I mean, it was back and forth. That was fun. That's impressive that the outlaw can even keep up. All right, let's get some, let's see some good sportsmanship. Good sportsmanship. Good sportsmanship. We all see here as a superior racer here. Mako. Well, you just started racing, so I'm blown away. So Mako had a bad start. She was very honest, went back to the gate. That was very honest, so you went back Friday when you noticed. So you started with a huge lead, but she kind of caught up to you. So it was close for a while though. Her straight line speed's taking you, but your ability to get it through the dive gate consistently was making a huge, huge difference. I think we all kind of came to the same decisions. Like this quad is super fun and it's something that like would never be your daily driver. It's fun to get good at something different. Yeah, it's a lot of fun and if they ever do crack down on the laws and this is the only thing we can fly, it's a lot of fun and we can still do it. But at any day, if you're directly comparing them, full race quad is faster and what it actually came down to was she knocked him out of the sky. It's like being Bowser and Mario Kart. You come out tomorrow and you say, you're done. Guys, thanks for watching. We had a great time. If you enjoyed this video, hit the like button. What do you guys think? What is the best application for these sub 250 gram machines? We're just having a ton of fun playing with them as freestyle, for racing, what would you like to see? What do you think is cool? Leave a comment down below and we will see you next time on Rotorat. Look at Drew as he walks away once again, champion of the world, Drew can do all the walks of shame he can. All the walks of shame he's wanted in his life all in one day. 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