panther makes em, the only time i ever remember seeing them used anywere was brian kinwald, so must be good eh??

ok who the hell are panther

I just thought I would clarify...

I read that info on another forum, I have no idea if that actually IS the official worlds tire or not yet...

ok but shouldnt they have said yet?? are they hand outs or what?

from reading the thread on RC tech they were just announced.

but... I didn't want anyone going to buy tires because of something that I said, I just read it from a random bod on some random forum.

it lists them on the ifmar 2007 site and relates them to the losi tyres which were used at the warmup. not sure why they chose these over losi versions but maybe they are cheap and easy to get hold of in Japan?

so would the uk boys going have to wait untill they where there befor getting there tyres? not that the guys going pay for them

am i right in thinking you have to glue up your tyres in the tyre prep area when there and they are then marked?

they are provided by the host (at a cost) and glued up in a monitored compound.

you can only use tires you purchased from other sources for praccy and stuff - qually and finals tires need to be bought from the hosts stock of tires (same production batch)

cool, obv as im way under the level of being close to going i have no real idea on how things work at the worlds and only have gossip to go on.

Chris, are you going? (Doughty not you Mr Mills.... lol)

oi i could have been asked to go....i know im shit and my eye site is going ( realy bad when my brother can straight line a chicane on foza motorsport in a lmp1 car at 200mph and at a tone i still clip it every lap) but you never know

Chris, I am far further along to old age... but there are such things as GLASSES heehee

yeah but im getting on now 24 soon, there is no way i want to admit that my bad back and pore eye site is down to old age....its bad enough i have to put the hair line down to that im not adding more

no international fixtures for me this year :(

Chris D, thats a bummer!!!

Millzy.... sore back, bad posture, eye site, to much w*nking..... or old age, you admit to one or both??? roflol

i watched me and my big boobs on channel 4 the other day and tihs bird had size j breast and she had a bad back, i think thats why i have a bad back my man boobs are to heavy

Here's the offical info from IFMAR

http://ifmar.org/pdf/final_tires_2007.pdf

I also got an e-mail from Frank Mostrey EFRA off-road rep with the same info.

MiCk B. :-)

I believe they are american.
they make very popular 1/8 scale rallycross tires .. with bizarre names like gecko, komodo, chameleon. the komodo dragon is as popular as proline crime fighters.

They have been around for 3-4 years, just not imported to Europe. Very big in rallycross and monster truck racing and they used to be an OEM supplier. Their buggy tyres work very well on US style clay tracks.

It's the equivalent of the USA saying "who the hell are Ballistic Buggy?":D

OMG it would be uber-sweet if you went there!
Just also get an HD camcorder and make vicky film some :-D
Then sell some Blu-ray wolds coverage :-D

Or make some more T-shirts! I´d buy one or two!

Woul you care to answer that question, haha :p

We have small amounts of Ballistic in Denmark.

Found some info for anyone going to the worlds and planning on driving there as it seems you will need an INTERNATIONAL driving permit.

http://www.rac.co.uk/web/knowhow/goi...BCD1F137098B45

Panther Tyres
 

This is good to know for any traveling to Japan from Europe for the worlds.

I just got this reply back directly from Panther about shipping:

Order the tires and show the shipping as pick up and they will be shipped at no charge to you. We are doing this for anyone who is attending the worlds that are from outside the US and Japan. The shipping is USPS priority and should reach you in 3 to 5 days.
Nice of them to offer this.........

MiCk B. :-)

Panther tyres go through Horizon Hobby UK in the UK, just at the moment i think they only have stock of 1/8th tyres.

Interesting choice though, you wouldbe gutted to go to the warm up then have to run different tyres for the main event!

i thought at the worlds you had to buy your tyres at the event.....

i thought so to,
i think i heard you can run Ur ow tyres in practise but race tyres need to be bought and glued up in race controlled area

For qualifying and finals it's control tyre. Marked and glued up under supervision.

For the practice you can run your own tyres.

We're gonna be there a day or two before the practice starts. So handy to have tyres there already, get 'em glued up and ready. According to the schedule there's a max of 10 rounds of practice.

MiCk B. :-)

I can't wait to go to the Maid Cafe ! :D:confused::o:D



http://www.kotaku.com/assets/resourc..._maid_cafe.jpg

I'd ride that long time ;)

Happy ending? :wtf: :p

there's even a maid optician, where they dress up as french maids and test your eyes.. mad as a mad thing

I lived in Tokyo for over two years and my girlfriend for about six. If you want to get some ideas of what to see/do/eat when your there come and speak to us (if she's back in the UK by then) at the Stotfold national. There are so many amazing photo opportunities it's almost worth not going to the worlds and just hanging out in Tokyo with your camera. It's a very special place, i can't say i enjoyed my time there but it was an eye opener, even after two years i was still shacking my head in amazement.

By the way good gag about the "Tokyo optician".

You lived inside your girlfriend for six years?!:o Wow!

Anyone got a camcorder type thing I can borrow to take to the worlds? Nothing too crazy as I don't intend to start chucking out DVD's of the footage or anything, but it would be mostly useful to video the A finals so I can write about them properly - if the qualitys good enough then I can stick the videos on youtube after if need be (but im sure others will be there doing better videos)

Me!

(my message "Me!" is too short to post, so now im going to type a load of really boring rambling jibberish just to allow me to post "Me!"... in fact bored of typing now... Me!)

Is that a new(ish) rule?

Just thinking back to Finland in 99 it was Proline tyres and people just took what they needed?!?

Good idea though as locals usually end up knowing some sort of trick to get a bit more grip.......

and why not i would buy em on a monthly bases and i bet loads more would to

;) Yeah that´s what I thought :-)

Just don´t ever youse youtube please. If you borrow a camcorder you could also borrow some webspace. I´m sure lots of people would lovee to help you out to host the vids (including me). Crappy youtube just isn´t appropriate for your quality stuff.