Friday, April 13, 2007
Panther tyres coming to the UK Categories - Industry, Off Road, Panther, Products, Tires - comments closed
We just received a mail from our friends at Horizon Hobby UK, formerly Helger Racing, saying that have started to import the Panther range of tyres into the UK. The name Panther may not be totally familiar to Off road racers in the UK but the products will be. Panther have been manufacturing tyres for both on and off road since 1985, originally all the tyres where produced for Kit manufactures and other aftermarket tyre suppliers under there own brands.
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Thursday, April 12, 2007
GRP now premounted on Yellow wheels Categories - GRP, Off Road, Products, Tires - comments closed
Well the title of this piece says it all, GRP through distributor MID, have announced that their range of premounted off road tires, which are available with Jolly, Atomic, Cubic or Bulldog tires, will now be made available on these yellow dished wheels. Available now.
Source: MID [mid-mugen.de]
Monday, April 9, 2007
Parma Pro 53 Touring Car Foam Tires Categories - On Road, Parma, Products, Tires - comments closed
Parma have announced the release of their new Pro 53 touring car foam tires, mounted on all new wheels that have been designed to meet new ROAR rules that allow an increase in the minimum inner diameter of the wheel to 53mm. The new wheel is a larger, dish style design that has superior strength with a lower profile rubber sidewall producing less flex with a stiffer, more stable driving feel.
Click here to see the difference between both wheels… (more…)
Thursday, April 5, 2007
Unity Tool Inc. Tweak board Categories - On Road, Products, Tires, Unity Tool Inc - comments closed
Our site partners, Kimihiko Yano, have got the lowdown on their site about this tweak board made by American company, Unity Tool Inc. As you can see from the picture, it is suitable for 1/12th scale chassis’ but also for 1/10th and 1/8th scale too, and basically allows you to measure and set your cars track width, camber, caster, toe in, toe out as well as helping you tweak your car correctly. The whole kits comes apart to be put away back in the supplied carry bag and if you havent seen this before you can see more pictures of it in its various uses here.
Source: Kimihiko Yano [kimihiko-yano.net]
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Much More Power Truer Categories - Much More, Products, Tires, Tools - comments closed
Much More, the accessories specialists, have released more details about their latest product, the Power Truer, that was first shown at the TITC in February. Powered by a 12V power source, the Power Truer is a simple tool with one switch that spins your rubber tires, allowing you to sand them and as always from Much More it will be made available in Black, Moore Purple and Rheinard Blue. Expect them to be on sale in mid April.
Click here to see the Purple version… (more…)
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Orcan VTEC tires and wheels Categories - On Road, Orcan, Products, Tires - comments closed
We have covered German brand Orcan before and really like the way they are presented by brand owners, SMI Motorsport. Today they announced that they will be adding to the Orcan range of fuel, batteries, fuel tubing and other accessories to produce rims and rubber tires for electric touring cars. Expected to be available in mid April, the tire range consists of seperate rubber, pre mounted tires with insert as well as selling their, white, Truespin disk wheels seperately.
Source: SMI [smi-motorsport.de]
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Medial Pro Tyre Design Challenge Categories - Medial Pro, Off Road, Products, Tires - comments closed
Medial Pro are running a rather unique and, lucrative for the winner, competition in which they invite entrants to design the next new tyre in their tyre range. Medial Pro have all the details on their site and the winning entry will first of all receive one racing season’s worth of Medial Pro tyres (100 pairs of tyres glued on rims!) and the winning tyre design will be named after the winner!
Check out their site here for more details.
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
JConcepts tires impress on debut Categories - JConcepts, Off Road, Products, Tires - comments closed
The debut for the all new JConcepts off road tires took place at last months Nitro Challenge and on its debut race they took the win in the hands of top off road racer Ryan Maifield. In the hotly contested 45 minute A-main event, Maifield made it a debut to remember by winning the Pro Gas Truck class A-main with his Associated GT2 running on JConcepts “Double Dees” tires in Sticky Green Compound. In 1/8th scale buggy, Maifield also blitzed the track in Round 2 of qualifying with his Associated RC8 by laying down a TQ run using the 1/8th scale version of the “Double Dees”.
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