Tires for carpet

[Tral]

Hello
What are the best tires and inserts for racing on carpet in 1/10 electric off-road 4wd?
I heard that quite good are Schumacher mini-pin yellow with hard insert from the same company
What do you use?

Thank you in advance.

[Mike Hudson]

the majority use the schumacher yellow minipin, with snee blue inserts or schumacher equivalent i think its the medium schumacher insert

[Tral]

What is snee inserts and where to buy them?

[rcluke]

cleveland models sells them, give him a ring.

his number is on his website

http://www.clevelandmodels.co.uk/

his website doesnt show most of the things he sells

[mole2k]

What sort of a effect does running the minipins on carpet have as one of the localish clubs to me don't allow any form of spike or pin and I've been trying to arrange a group from my club to go there but nobody wants to have to buy specific tyres for it.

[Welshy40]

Originally Posted by mole2k

What sort of a effect does running the minipins on carpet have as one of the localish clubs to me don't allow any form of spike or pin and I've been trying to arrange a group from my club to go there but nobody wants to have to buy specific tyres for it.

Well the car has major grip with mini pins on carpet, I prefer these to foams and mini spikes (which we used to run before the mini pins came out). My pins last for quite a while before I have to buy new ones for club. Try it and you will see.

[ianjoyner]

Originally Posted by mole2k

What sort of a effect does running the minipins on carpet have as one of the localish clubs to me don't allow any form of spike or pin and I've been trying to arrange a group from my club to go there but nobody wants to have to buy specific tyres for it.

We used to run mini pins, even on touring cars, I quite liked them, the carpet was a bit fluffy as a result, but the tyres lasted ages and no need for traction additive. Although a new set of mini pins always offered a lot more grip than old ones, unlike the rubber slicks used by other clubs which give consistent grip for a long time.

Last year we moved to some new carpet and decided to stop using spikes or pins, this was better for the touring cars, as we can now use rubber slicks in line with other clubs and the tyres still last ages, but with more consistent grip, although we have to use traction additive .

Not so good with buggies though, we started using Proline Dirt Hawgs so not to fluff the carpet, they're large, heavy and not well balanced, so not exactly ideal from a handling point of view. With traction additive they give a lot of grip, but it is very variable, the tyres basically last a long time, but I miss the handling and run to run consistency with pins.

That's not really answered your question on what using pins would do to the carpet now, but our old carpet was fluffy and I'm guessing the same would happen if we went back to them.

Anyone out there running pins on buggies and slicks on tourers on the same track?