Drive motor options

[Eventorizon]

Is there actually much benefit to running a brushless drive? The initial weight saving and power increase from the motor is obvious but with all the chain you had to add to get the necessary reduction There may not have been much weight saving. Is there anything to my logic?

It also crosses my mind that if you took a banebots gearbox, for example on 16:1 or 25:1, could it cope if you mounted a brushless motor to it?

EDIT: That said the motors on the test machine are only 750kv where as the 775's are over 1000... maybe its not an issue