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cheap as chips then! and here was me thinking of buying 8 new packs! guess i may think about it again
Goo Onn, go sell a kidney or something, you know you want to.
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Goo Onn, go sell a kidney or something, you know you want to.
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ha ha and here's me trying to save for 300 quids worth of tyres for the euro's also! need to sell my heart i think!! lol
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£300 worth of tyres ?

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I think we will be persuading neil to bring back stormforce

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They have gold lettering on them not silver (mine are all silver).
...aaah bugger. Mine are the silver ones.

Oh well, e-bay here I come!!



Did someone mention disposing of the cells?
If so, the council will take them away if you put them in a clear bag and place them in your blue box/bin that they collect the tin stuff in. They just collect them with the other stuff in there. If you don't have a blue box then probably the tip or something.
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The problem is guys, where do you want to draw the line. Now, it's relevent here that i say i am like everyone else - i have plenty of IB cells sitting around me - probably in the region of 18-20 packs. Not only that - i bought 3 brand new packs about 3 weeks ago to go to an international race -yes i knew there was a very good chance this was going to happen - but felt it was no point going with dead cells, and haven't decided what i'm doing yet for 12th scale Euros in April which will run to 2007 list. I may get my cells a LITTLE cheaper, but i do pay for them - and i'd bet there are some unsponsered drivers that pay less for their cells than i do (overseas etc)

So, you want 07 spec cells to remain legal at nationals for 08. Ok, so let's start by assuming there is an advantage to having the cells a little bigger (let's be honest, manufactures wouldn't have made them bigger if this wasn't the case). So we then have 07 spec and 08 spec cells - which do you think the top 10 guys would be running??? so then you have an 07 list of cells, that are probably no longer available to buy - but the top guys are running them. Is this something people would be happy with?

So when do you decide to actually make the change?? you have to do it sometime if you have passed a rule. IT ws decided a while back to make it 2008. Now i do agree 100% that more should have been made of it 12 months ago - i think people's attention should have been drawn to the fact that it was the intention.

Look on the bright side, they could have said that it applied for all santioned meetings...............as will be the case in 2009.
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Unfortunately (well fortunately depending on how you look at it) looks that another major line will have to be drawn maybe 2010 ? for lipo, what do you guys think...?
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Yeah, maybe. All LiPo really needs is someone to propose it at the agm, and enough people support it.
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the rules should of been implemented it at the time of the rule change, no grace, so we wouldn't be on the fourth incarnation of the IB cell....
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oops, I'm getting concerned over nothing!

I'm only going to be running regionals this season anyway. If anyone wants to donate their useless cells to me, please feel free!
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oops, I'm getting concerned over nothing!

I'm only going to be running regionals this season anyway. If anyone wants to donate their useless cells to me, please feel free!
I'll second that
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oops, I'm getting concerned over nothing!

I'm only going to be running regionals this season anyway. If anyone wants to donate their useless cells to me, please feel free!

TBH
I am now about the same, what was to be my first full national season will probably be cancelled as I can't use my perfectly good (for me) several year old secondhand batterys at any of the nationals, or do I buy a couple of packs of legal batteries and charge the arse off them all day just to enter a national???

I can see getting rid of any of last years dodgy batterys but not banning anything else (which probably would have been legal if submitted) from many years ago that has not proved a problem.
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don't imagine its a case of the brca banning them, more the manufactures didn't resubmit them for Homologation for the new ruling as they knew they wouldnt pass!
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i think im going to prepose lipo for 2009

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excellent ash, what were they like when you ran them in your 10th??
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I haven run one lol ive just heard good things and nimh would still be legal i thin kit would be good to allow both it would give a cheaper option for everyone to get top performance but i am looking at getting a trackpower saddle pack before i prepose it to give them a go. Im not jus going to propse it without trying them thats why i said i think.

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the rules should of been implemented it at the time of the rule change, no grace, so we wouldn't be on the fourth incarnation of the IB cell....
Ok, it's a view. So, 12 months ago, we say all cells must now be under 43mm at all times. Hmm, trouble is, none available to buy. bugger.

Hence the theory behind 12months warning - to give manufactures chance to make cells to that spec - which they have.
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don't imagine its a case of the brca banning them, more the manufactures didn't resubmit them for Homologation for the new ruling as they knew they wouldnt pass!
Well I may be wrong but I thought GP3700's were smaller and lighter than GP4300's and I would imagine GP3300's were even smaller so surely if they they had been submitted they would have passed??
Basically any cell that wasnt submitted that was legal in the past becomes illegal anyway so its a big gain for the manufacturers to not bother submitting old cells knowing anything they sold in the last couple of years would become illegal to use??? and everybody would have to buy the latest cell?
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You can't really submit old cells, because they aren't available to buy - so would fail the homologation process.
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you may well be right, the gp3700 is smaller than the 2007 gp4300, doesnt means its smaller than the revised 2008 spec gp4300 though...
unless every cell is taken through the same process that the cell's on the list are then i would imagine only those submitted this year were checked due to the new rule...i maybe wrong but IMO thats what's happened
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