To match with their various colour MP9 receiver and battery boxes Kyosho soon have corresponding chassis side pod sets available. Given the photos Kyosho’s Yuichi Kanai released the pods come in orange, yellow, green and white colour to replace the standard black parts with more colourful ones. More information, such as availability, should surface soon.
Source: Kyosho [kyosho.com]
New from Exotek and made for the Xray XB4 are 7mm wide 12mm wheel hex adapters for the rear end of the buggy. They are made to fit Team Associated and Kyosho style 12mm hex wheels on the rear of the buggy and make for a wheel width of 243mm which is 4mm narrower than with Exotek’s 9mm offset adapters. The precision machined clamping design hexes are available in Xray orange or black colour and a direct fit.
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IFMAR World Champion Jared Tebo has new merchandise to offer in the form of the Force and Chico design shirt. Starting with the Force, the shirt offers a clean and simple design with a little edgyness. It has the JTP RC circle logo centred in an abstract rectangle design on the front, followed by the JTP RC logo on the back lower right corner. The white screenprint is done on a blue shirt.
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Better late than never? I guess that is my theme for this entry as we all recover from the long world championship event. It seems everyone got sick after the event too which has led to a long recovery and hang-over. I ask my myself immediately following the 60 minute A-final event. So if you win on Sunday or in this case on Saturday, do you sell on Monday? That is why we are all there right? A promotion to help ignite sales of the product. Everyone should be lined up to buy all the latest product that was on the winning ride starting with the Hot Bodies D812….right?
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Arrowmax now have a Jörn Neumann Edition 1/10th off-road carstand available. Made from aluminium and coming with Jörn’s signature the carstand not only securely holds buggies and trucks during building, maintenance and setup but it also has cut-outs to take small and big bore shock absorbers during refilling and bleeding. Beside the Neumann Edition stand there is also a plain version available.
Source: Arrowmax [arrowmax-rc.com]
The TORCH 1/10th Electric Offroad Dash for Cash GP will take place on Sunday 19th October. The format will be one round of timed practice, 4 rounds of qualifying and one 7 minute final for all. Prizes for top three in all finals plus, and this is the different bit, £50 cash top prize for the top finisher in each BRCA formula grade F1 through to F5. Formula grades will be based on current 2014 grading used in this year’s regionals and nationals. Places will limited to first 100 entries for 2WD and 4WD Buggy. More information about the event can be found here.
Coming soon from Xray and just in time for the indoor season is the XB4 2015 Spec 4WD buggy kit. No details are known yet about the features of the latest version of Xray’s European Championships winning car but expect more details to surface very soon.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Xpert RC’s new WR series of waterproof servos is designed to work with everything from a 1/10th scale crawler to a 1/5th scale monster and they have been designed to function completely submerged in water. Available are three servos, the standard voltage WR-4401-LV (0.077s/280oz-in) and two high voltage compatible offerings, the WR6601-HV (0.118s/360oz-in) and the WR-7701-HV (0.126s/485oz-in). All offer IP67 rated protection, specially hardened metal gears, advanced firmware for no buzzing sound and high ampere and high temperature protection features.
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