There seems to be new brush setters coming out all the time and today we have a new one from Kose for use Yokomo Max motors. Coming in anodised blue, it looks almost identical to the version released last month by Much More, and as expected it does all the things you expect a brush setter to do. Coming with a 7.8mm cutter it allows you to cut your brushes in 0.0, 0.3 & 0.5mm offsets. Source: Kose [www.kose-rc.com]…
Starting next week, Europes best electric buggy racers collect in the center of Finland, in a place called Vaasa, to battle it out in 2wd and 4wd to be crowned the 2007 European Champion. Drivers have already started arriving and our partners oOple are there too, and combined with his racing Jimmy & wife Vicky will be covering the full event. Fridays report is already online, covering the travel to the event as well as the first impressions of the track. The track is quite large and all ‘features’ are covered in carpet to give a consistent surface. The largest…
A summary of other news pieces from around the internet today in our Red RC Round-up: > Close up of the HoBao Hyper 8.5 of Robert Batlle – Link [rcmag.com] > Kawada release a number of different size ceramic balls – Link [kawadamodel-co-jp] > Crono RS7 of Davide Tortorici close up – Link [rcmag.com] > RB Products report from the European Championships – Link [rbproducts.com] > Crono RS03 of Nico Rodriguez close up – Link [rcmag.com] > Kimihiko Yano have lots of new parts from CRC online – Link [kimihiko-yano.net]…
We wrote about the much anticipated 4wd electric buggy from Team Associated, the B44, when it was announced a week ago. Team Associated have now put the full information from their new car online, including lots of up close chassis pictures such as the one above, but strangely there was no overall chassis shot or from the bottom either, perhaps parts haven’t been finalised. Click here to see more pictures… Source: Team Associated [rc10.com]…
The 10th installment in the Xray column from Xray owner and chief designer Juraj Hudy is now online. In this months column, Juraj takes about the future development of the companys electric touring car and the process that the company has in place to analyze, design, produce a sample, test, and analyze again. Electric touring cars are so highly developed today and the performance level has been raised so dramatically within the few last years that every single small detail matters and will help to shave tenths or hundreds of a second per lap… which at the end of one…
A summary of other news pieces from around the internet today in our Red RC Round-up: > Round 3 of the Hungarian Off-road National Championship – Link [teamxray.com] > GS Racing report from their 2007 International Cup in Portugal – Link [gsracing.com.tw] > Top Spanish Mugen racer Daniel Vega joins Team Maugrafix – Link [maugrafix.com] > Beautiful packaging from the Team Magic G4+ Limited Edition – Link [cmldistribution.co.uk] > Xray report on the European Nordic Championships – Xray [teamxray.com] > Hot Bodies have lots of build videos online for their Cyclone D4 – Link [hbeurope.com]…
…were contacted by the presenters of the US made online TV show, RC TV Live, to tell us about their program. While i had heard of the show before i hadnt looked closely at it until now, and from what i’ve seen it looks like a solid and professionally made show. Presented by Jeff Maturo and Mike Boylan, the show is on its 704th episode (above), and it focuses on product reviews, tech tips and from what i can see, in depth analyses of the technology in RC, so be sure to check it out. Source: RC TV Live [rctvlive.com]…
So we received an e-mail from our friends at RC Hobbies in Canada to let us know that the show RC Insider, which is hosted by Dirt Girl Anna Curtis and directed by Jayne Romyn, is back on air. No longer is it being shown by the Outdoor Life network in the US however, but instead it will be shown online, which is of course better for everyone. The show itself features race reports, interviews and product reviews and seems to be a good effort so we recommend you go check it out. The first demo episode of this show…
