Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Axial Cubes 1/8 buggy tires Categories - Axial, Off Road, Products, Tires - comments closed
Axial Racing has released these new 1/8th scale buggy tires called Cubes which are “created for medium packed track conditions, but works well on all surfaces. The blocks allow for great bite and are far enough apart to allow for good clean out in soft loamy conditions. They are sized to fit standard buggy wheels. Low profile sidewall reduces flex in, and is available in two compounds”.
Super sticky soft race compound
Best suited for medium packed track conditions
Low profile sidewall reduces flex in turns
Outside Diameter – 111mm
Inside Diameter – 81mm
Width – 43mm
Source: Axial [axialracing.com]
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Pro-Line Crime Fighter MTR Categories - Off Road, Pro Line, Products, Tires - comments closed
More news from Pro-Line, this time they have announced their Crime Fighter tire, suitable for truggies and monster trucks. Extensively tested by their team riders, these new tires resist expansion thanks to inner ribbing and are more responsive thanks to a less pronounced sidewall but we’ll let Pro-Line tell you more…
Pro-Line is happy to report that the new MTR version of tire is more responsive due to its less pronounced sidewall and has an inner ribbing on the inner diameter of the tire and an inner ribbing on the sidewall of the tire; thus reducing the amount of tire expansion under acceleration and reducing the amount of sidewall flex while cornering.
Source: Pro-Line [prolineracing.com]
Pro Line makes some sweet products and the new Crowd Pleazer bodies are no exception. Two versions of this body have been released with the first (above) designed for the buggy of the moment, the Team Losi 8ight. There is a big write up on their site about all its features and specs, but lets face it looks good and thats pretty much all that matters, plus you know Pro-Line have your back regards performance so its all good. The second Crowd Pleazer body is for the Team Associated GT2, why it has the same name i don’t know because they look completely different but there you have it. Looks good too and i’m sure handles pretty good too.
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Friday, November 10, 2006
Schumacher enter the 1/8th off road tyre market Categories - Off Road, Products, Schumacher, Tires - comments closed
Schumacher Racing are set to enter the 1/8th scale off road tyre market with their new Spiral and Mini Pin tyres. The Northampton, UK, based company has set mid November as the launch date for the tyres only and December for the pre mounted versions.
Based on our extensive competition racing knowledge we have designed two new tyres, the ‘Schumacher Spiral’ and the more traditional ‘Schumacher Min Pin’ these will each be available in Yellow and Silver compounds to suit a wide variety of surfaces such as grass, dirt and astro.
Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]
Monday, November 6, 2006
Sirio Kanai Evo III STI spotted in the wild Categories - Engines, Off Road, Products, Sirio - comments closed
Buggy-Sport have the scoop on the new Sirio Kanai Evo III STI 3.5cc off road motor. Now we don’t know whose car this is in but the engine is seen in a Kyosho buggy and because of the timing we reckon it was taken at last weekends ‘GP International De Pierrefeu‘. Now Sirio employee and Kyosho racer Adrien Bertin was there so we are going to call it and say that this is his car….just like that (we’ll write a correction when found to be wrong :). By the way Adrien finished 9th after some problems in the final.
UPDATE: The car belonged to Stéphane Deroch and you can see him here with his car.
Also seen in the same car was a new Sirio pipe system, which you can be seen over at Buggy-Sport so check that out.
Source: Buggy-Sport.info [buggy-sport.info]
Saturday, October 28, 2006
New Ninja .21 buggy motor? Categories - Engines, Ninja, Off Road, Products - comments closed
According to Greek site, radiocontrol.gr, there is a new Ninja buggy motor out. Information is thin on the ground but there are enough changes on the motor to warrant a look. For starters the engine head features a new spec number, with the addition of A to the MR21-BO1 and also the crankshaft and conrod sport new series number. Not exactly a major update but more a simple material upgrade it seems. No official word on the Ninja website.
Source: Radio Control [radiocontrol.gr]
Saturday, October 21, 2006
3 new truggy bodies from JConcept Categories - Bodies, JConcepts, Off Road, Products - comments closed
Makers of great bodies and accessories, JConcept, have come up with 3 new killer bodies for the booming truggy market. These new bodies have been designed to fit the Kyosho STR, the Mugen MBX5T and the HPI Hellfire.
Read the full entry for more pics and product features… (more…)
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Pro-Line Racing new releases Categories - Accessories, Off Road, Pro Line, Products - comments closed
Pro Line have just released 2 new products for gas off-road racers. The first is this low profile air filter which is essentially your standard version but made oval instead of round therefore reducing its height. Pretty simple i would have thought but obviously no one else had done it before so credit to those creative thinkers at Pro Line.
The second product is not so clever but equally useful… (more…)
