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Originally Posted by samd
I had a look at them on sunday at don valley sheffield and they looked shite to be honest, kind of put me off, no grip,
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it would put you off. Tyre choice was purely experimental, and none of the usual tyres used on normal race surfaces worked. At Tamworths carpet we had the opposite problem, keeping them from grip rolling, and at Bedworth they get just as much grip in the wet!
As long as you race on what everyone else runs on (carpet or asphalt!) and avoids Don Valley until someone works out what tyres work there.
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Originally Posted by samd
Im ordering one!
What tyres are people using indoors/outdoors/wet , compounds?
Ive had a look and im guessing the kit foams are the 3racing soft rears and medium fronts available separately???
Thanks for all the info guys
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Most people are using the kit tyres for indoor/outdoor dry conditions with their favourite choice of tyre additive - mine is CS-Grip. I struggled all day at Tamworth with the kit tyres that others were using happily, handling on mine was sorted for the final by changing to Zen 30 shore rears and 38 shore front foams. For wet weather the Superion tyres (sold by Cross and TRG) are really grippy, but you need to keep them clean - between races they are washed and wrapped in cling film until the next rainy meeting.
Gearing is still a bit of a guess, Dez Chand was running a 17.5 and at the start he was relatively slow down the straight at Tamworth, and kept on fitting bigger and bigger pinions with more speed but no less acceleration. I was running a 13T brushless in mine with a gear ratio of 3.94:1 with 56mm diameter tyres. The TX throttle was limited to 70% with plenty of expo to make it controllable and it's still as fast as the others in a straight line - speed isn't a problem with the F1s.