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It's a saferty issue mainly.

The Stafford club we're using regular lipos, then out venue found and said no. A compromise situation was reached where hard cased lipos on the BRCA approved list would be allowed, more so for insurance reasons I'm led to believe.

The Stoke club are simply playing it safe. They've had various incidents over the past few years we're nimh cells have gone bang, and they're not wanting the same kind of thing to happen with lipos.

Frogger - Cosie banned me for personal reasons, you'll have to ask him what they are, as he won't give me an honest answer.

If you read the current thread on the micro forums, you'll see that he is still having a dig at me, and others are outright flaming in their posts.

A lipo bag will prevent problems when you're charging lipos, but isn't much help when that same lipo is in your car and is involved in a bad crash and goes bang.

You don't need hard-cased lipos in planes, as they aren't put under the same stresses as cars put them under. As for the bikes not using them yet, the bikes section is relatively new. They may still go down the hard-cased lipo route.

It also needs to be said, that the Bedworth club used to run lipos in the Carisma / Recoil class, but stopped them after an incident with a lipo, earlier in the year.

Not having this list is setting the BRCA micro section up for a big financial payout when something bad happens.