November 9, 2006
…racer Christophe De Vocht has developed a Drive Calculator program to work out drive ratios for all of Serpents current, and some older, models. The user can input all the pulley sizes as well as the tyre diameters for it to work out the ratio, it will also suggest a tyre size to get a user determined front to rear drive ratio too. As far as we are aware Christophe has also made versions for other manufacturers too. You can download the drive calculator here or from the 960, 835 and 720 download pages on Serpent’s site. Source: Serpent [mytsn.com]…
November 2, 2006
Buggy-Sport.info have the bad news this morning about the Protech facility in Belgium being destroyed by fire last night. Last night, a raging fire really burned to the ground the brand new factory situated in Olen near Antwerp of Promodels, better known as Protech, the belgian distributor and manufacturer of hobbyproducts, like the Enigma serie of buggys. UPDATE: Neo-Buggy have images from the fire here. Source: Buggy-Sport.info [buggy-sport.info] Image: RC Driver [rcdriver-online.com]…
November 1, 2006
Coches RC, the leading Spanish RC car site, have on their forums what can only be described as the holy grail of off road video’s online, with over 80 to choose from, the clips show various races, laps, tracks and interviews all containing 1/8th buggies and all in one place. Definitely worth checking out. You can view the full list of videos here….
October 28, 2006
Kimihiko-yano.net have their report from the 2nd day of the Japanese 1/12th scale nationals online. It seems the wet weather held of and they got 4 rounds of qualifying done. Again i must apologise for my Japanese being as poor as it is but because of that i cant tell you who heads the leaderboard after qualifying. You can view an image of the results sheet here: position 1-20, 21-43 More car pics after the jump… You can see the full Saturday report and a lot more pictures here. Source: Kimihiko-Yano [kimihiko-yano.net]…
October 26, 2006
UK based online shop, Nitro Models Ltd, have a nice set of high resolution images of the new innovative Team Magic M1 1/8th scale off road buggy. We reported on this car when it was shown in iHobby but these are the first set of studio images that we have seen. You can check out the full high resolution gallery here. Source: Nitro Models [nitro-models.co.uk] via Buggy-Sport.info [buggy-sport.info]…
