You can't stop innovating and still charge an astronomical amount for your stuff and expect to be a viable company. They caused their fate here...

They lost when AE drivers stopped using them, everyone wants what the pro's have. It was a smooth reliable esc when i ran them. Valid point about the programming options though. I was really surprised they released the Flow X with programmable buttons and nothing else. Novak didn't have a program card either, maybe it's a trend. I even think today a program card isn't enough. Now we want mobile app and wifi option.

Rivkin is the only big name using reedy. Cav was the one using lrp, then joined orion long before Spencer was known and that was when lrp was left behind. Cav now uses muchmore. Reedy esc is nothing special. Motors are good, but everyone has the same motor with different label.

I actually didn't mind the buttons on my SXXV2, I had the parameters memorized and it was faster than unplugging it to use a card.

I hope they find an investor and pull through. It sounds more optimistic at this point than Novak's situation was. I like their esc' s - my T5m has a Flow with an X20 7.5 and I have another brand new Flow/X20 combo waiting to go into another project. My son's T4.1 is still going strong with an SXX.

I am indifferent to programming boxes. My LRP's obviously don't have them, and I program them very quickly. My old Viper esc had a program box and it was cool, but not necessary in my opinion. These kinds of things are rather like fads to me. To each his own. But if the industry is moving in that direction they should certainly do what they must to in order to keep up. Again, I hope they pull through. I like the product.

Here in Europe, every 2nd car, in every LHS, is LRP one. Their fail is imo caused by the lack of marketing and advertisement. I talked with employees from hobby stores in my city and they say that despite the fact that most of the cars on shelves are from LRP, people are ordering and waiting for Xray/Asso/ECX or Absima ones, because they dont really know/trust the LRP brand, the spare parts are expensive, hard to get and LRP is acting very weird sometimes. F.e., the official LRP store delivers only to Germany. I have 1/8 LRP buggy and LRP never responded to any of my emails, when I was asking for spares availability, for compatibility with other products.

lost all faith in lrp when i was a victim of there quantum2 esc purchased 3 and all 3 failed on 1st lap on a indoor track.fiery mess.. burnt my stadium to the ground once..bye LRP i will not miss you ..i did miss tekin when they went away but returned in force..i have a moded bc112a for my lipos..

hmm Im sure i will look for some good deals on LRP Flow esc in the for sale threads :)

Sad regardless. I own two flow works and love them

Initially was put off by non program card but the lights are easy to work with. I can change settings at the driver's stand without plugging in a card. Great punch in blinky. Nice and strong brakes

I hope they don't disappear completely.

ive used a little of everything. including lrp. I think their stuff is nice. I agree on the programming. I hope they make it. good luck lrp

Novak now LRP

So because you were dissatisfied with one single product, you don't feel sorry for one of the most well known companies in RC to go bankrupt? Not to mention all the people potentially losing their jobs?

No one told them to stay in the stone age and produce product that even their loyalist customers are bored of and are looking at other brands. They kind of did this to themselves.

Well guess that "NOSRAM" will go to the drain to?

They are exactly the same as LRP, only the blue color change to Red! And of course name/logo! :)

I have several Nosram and some LRP esc's & motors! :eek:

Well, since you ask the questions of me regarding my levels of sympathy, I will answer:

I do not at all feel bad about the bankruptcy of a company that lies about even one product (then makes excuses for the lie) and provides poor customer service. There was no need for them to claim that they had an oversized front bearing in the motor when they did not. No one forced them to lie. They did it because they wanted to make money and they thought having this as a point of description on their motor might sell more than if they didn't include that point.

Regarding the customer service, when I called to ask about the size of the bearing (I was actually calling to ask if there was some mistake in assembly of the motor since the one I had did not match the description of the product) the agent told me two things: 1) They chose to use that small bearing to "save weight". That is not a tradeoff any other motor company makes so I don't believe that was the motivation. 2) I asked if I could buy another endbell so I could modify it to take a larger bearing (I didn't want to modify the one on the motor without a spare in case I messed up). They refused to even sell me a replacement part.

So no, I do not feel bad for the company.

Regarding feeling bad for the people losing their jobs, in deciding who to feel bad for I would first consider the range of suffering in the world as a whole before I expend emotional energy feeling bad for some people losing their jobs at a company that makes recreational products (essentially, toys). Compared to the many in Africa suffering various diseases that could be easily cured with the proper drugs or prevented with the proper vaccines (which some peoples refuse because it is against their religion), losing a job at a "toy" company pales into insignificance. I am sure that not everyone at that company bears responsibility for the misrepresentation in pursuit of greater sales just as I am sure there are other people in the world more deserving of my sympathy for various assorted reasons. That said, I will admit to having greater concern for the well-being of my immediate family, then my friends, then my acquaintances, then the public service employees close to home, and so on down the line. Being as LRP employees are after the suffering multitudes in Africa, they are not near the top of my list.

BTW, it's not just the suffering multitudes in Africa ahead of the LRP employees, There's also the many people living under totalitarian governments, the women in the middle east that suffer cultural discrimination, the people of China being affected by extreme pollution from their industries burning large amounts of coal and so on and so on and so on...

So given the level of suffering in the world and the fact that those LRP employees at least once had jobs (indicating some basic skills they might apply toward getting another job), I'm not feeling sorry for them, as opposed to any one else for whom I would generate angst. Nor do I feel the need to apologize for them not being at the top of my "feeling sorry for" list.