Colour of wheels

[ben]

So then what colour wheels do you all run. And do you use spoked or solid wheels?

I run white solid wheels

lil ben

[rcracer]

by the looks of your dp pic you dont run any wheels and why such a question :D

[ben]

Pure randomness lol

i couldnt think of anything else to say

lil ben

[rcracer]

or maybe your trying to bump up your post count :rolleyes:

solid wheels for me cos i thats all i have :p and black at the mo cos i going through a black moment :D

[mattym0310]

i want some JC spoked ones. but atmo im using white solid ones :D

[Northy]

Lee seems to be the new 'captin yelow spoke' I think he's trying to take the title away from Stu ;)

http://rcactionpics.com/gallery/2007/hurricane/clash_12_08_2007/slides/clash_12_08_2007_103.html

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[PaulRotheram]

White dished.. nowt else.

[ben]

yeh why would you run gay yellow wheels lol.

ok then maybe im trying to bump up my post count lol

lil ben

[ashleyb4]

i use yellow dish on my xx4 and white dish on my cr odd but yellow are ace yellow are better than white some people say yeloow wheels look pants well its actually your paint jobs if you had better paint jobs yellow wheels would look so much better.

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[ryan]

As Ben said, Yellow=Gay:D

[ben]

eeeewwwww yellow DISHED wheels i think im gonna throw up lol.
Spose its not as bad as yellow spoked wheels.

But yellow wheels are wrong all together.

lil ben

[bigred5765]

yellow are faster
ben stop being a sheep,
your just following the heard
baaahhhhhhhhhh

[ben]

Thts quite creative carl lol. How can you say yellow is faster when it is GAY. Yellow is slow yellow is gay, white is the way forward yellow is stuck in reverse. hehe

lil ben

[bigred5765]

Gay is the future so I'm told
gay is the way forward
so i suppose gay is faster lol
ask cocker

[ben]

lol. Why do i need to ask cocker when you run them aswell?lil ben

[super__dan]

I used to hate yellow wheels until I borrowed some off Chris and found I could see them better. However I don't think they look as nice and also I have LOADS of white dished ones so will be sticking with them.

[josh_smaxx]

White are better and thats all i have ever run so it stands to reason :rolleyes:

[ben]

Im begining to see a trend developing. And everyone seems to be liking white wheels.

lil ben

[Col]

There are 4 types of wheels that have 3 levels of "gayness"

Level 1. (no "gayness") White dished wheels.


Level 2. (medium "gayness") White spoked wheels, yellow dished wheels


Level 3. (Obscene "gayness") Yellow spoked wheels


Level 1 should be the norm for every driver, level 2 is acceptable if no alternatives are available (but only for a short time) and level 3 should be avoided at all costs and is never ever to considered as a full time wheel choice!;);):rolleyes:

[ben]

hahaha col you make me laugh:D:D:D

lil ben

[Spencer Mulcahy]

As long as they are round I dont care what colour or gayness they are, and if they are cheep even better.

[Northy]

What about orange wheels? :confused:

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[Mike Hudson]

PINK ;):p

[ben]

The new orange pred wheels do look pretty funky in orange. I tried dying some wheels once but they just went a light shade of pink ?lil ben

[AmiSMB]

Ben your old xx-4 came with those nice gay yellow spoke wheels :o Must have gotten over it eh!

[hockeyhead019]

what bout black wheels spoked or dish??? either way their tight.

[ben]

Ben your old xx-4 came with those nice gay yellow spoke wheels :o Must have gotten over it eh!

Nope in actual fact i never used em and gave em to matt latham cos i couldnt bare the sight of em in my pit box lol.

lil ben

[Mike Hudson]

haha i have your attepted pink dyed wheels ben :p there lurking somewhere in my big wheel box :D

[ben]

i think its becuase i did them in cold dye and not in a warm one which i hear affects how they die.lil ben

[bigred5765]

pink PINK
AND YOU HAVE THE CHEEK TO CALL YELLOW GAY
muhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[ben]

Yeh it was ment to make the wheels whiter but they came out pink for some reason lol. Nah just kidding it was to go with my bodyshell but when they came out they didnt look very good.

[xx4-nutter]

i felt like yellow wheels made my car sluggy :eh?:

but white mate if feel faster and more darty for some reason ! :eh?:

white wheels are rather cool though, not a big fan of the new JC wheels but i do like the yellow 5 spoke wheels they are rather hot !

:D


Yeh it was ment to make the wheels whiter but they came out pink for some reason lol. Nah just kidding it was to go with my bodyshell but when they came out they didnt look very good.

when you dye them you do use really hot water makes the plastic warm and it expends which soaks the dye in !

cold water .... haha ;) hero lol

[rcracer]

bring to the boil and simmer fo 20 mins...:D ramsey styley...:p

[xx4-nutter]

" White dish losi wheels poched in dye ........... DONE ! " :D

[rcracer]

" White dish losi wheels poched in dye ........... DONE ! " :D

now f*** off out my kitchen :p

[xx4-nutter]

HAHAHAHA !:D

[langers]

what about the losi blue wheels very nice
and if unsure which way to go (or if new tyres needed and only have yellow front and white rear) would your pride get in the way

[ben]

Atleast your half way their with white rearslil ben

[Oscar]

I don't care what colour they are, hell they don't even have to be the same colour on one axle let alone front to rear:o:D

[bigred5765]

hehe
yellow is faster on the track and proved it
yellow is the feature and thats it

[millzy]

Nothing wrong with pink wheels.

run them with Pride

all girls love pink and if they dont i have somthing pink they will

[xx4-nutter]

hehe
yellow is faster on the track and proved it
yellow is the feature and thats it


none of the worlds winning cars had yellow wheels ? did they :D

[ben]

Well said gary i forgot to mention that.

[xx4-nutter]

:p:p:p:p

[racingdwarf]

As I get older yellow wheels are needed...........easier to see:rolleyes:

[RogerM]

I disagree ... most of what we race on is green .. white stands out the best against green!!!

[ben]

Well said roger agree with you

[bigred5765]

bahhhaaaa ben bahhhaaaaaa
and the wheels are neon yellow
and yes they won at the euros 2wd and 4wd
not sure on the worlds cars ,

[Mike Hudson]

PINK ALL THE WAY!!! :D Never had a yellow set they make me feel sick :wtf:

[GRIFF55]

Hayato in the 2wd worlds had yellow;), he won?????
There were others in 2wd A main and 4wd A main too

[Chris Doughty]

he also used hotbodies shocks on his B4 but he still didn't seem to go any slower....

he must be one hell of a driver! :p

[Chrislong]

As long as all 4 match, then thats my first concern... But asof recently I have prefered Neon Yellow, it is far easier for me to see than white.

Seeing my wheels against the surface is not a factor, seeing my wheels in relation to the kerbs is important and against white/red/black/blue/stripey/tartan kerbs the white wheels are far easier to see.... for me.

Although if my shell didn't have any yellow in it, then they wouldn't suit and I wouldn't run them anyway. LOL.

Black wheels anyone??

Chris

[rcracer]

Black wheels anyone??

Chris

Run black wheels for 2 meetings and didnt notice any problem with judging the corners....but its early days :D

[Chrislong]

The Tamiya Burger comes with Black wheels, I think they fit Losi fitment - I may give them a whirl one day if they're easy to get.

Personally, I can't wait for spokey JConcept wheels, I have always prefer spokes over dish in the past, seems to help me when I can see them spiinning..

[ben]

I actually like the new jconcepts wheels for some reason. Is their some new wheels coming out for the B44?

[Nick Goodall]

bahhhaaaa ben bahhhaaaaaa
and the wheels are neon yellow
and yes they won at the euros 2wd and 4wd
not sure on the worlds cars ,

If Neil ran yellow rims on his B4 i would be more then a little shocked........ He used to give me soooo much stick for even trying Yellow rims!

[Richard Lowe]

I had yellow spokes on my cars for practice in florida :o (Jason had no white)

The JC wheels are really good, they feel nice and strong and are actually round unlike proline wheels. Something worth noting is the JC 4wd fronts are B44 fitting, so to use them or B44 wheels on current cars you need B44 hexes (they will fit the BJ4 and XX4 with no mods).
It looks like there are new Proline rears starting to make their way out, Lee's new B4 kit we built up on the night before the finals day (his X6 was that good lol) had the new rears.

[jimmy]

The JC wheels are nice, I only have the 2WD ones so Ive not had chance to use them (I've not raced 2wd since finland)

Are you sure the wheels are proline rich? I would have thought thunder tiger would be trying to phase out buying-in parts and making everything in China now? I've got some b44 front that I nicked in Japan and it's their own wheel from what I can see (no branding)

[ben]

You got any pics of the hexes on em jimmy. Cos thats the only thing that puts me off the losi wheels, the fact that they strip if they arent tightened up properly. Then andy myers wonderes why i was telling him to put an allen driver in his outdrive when he is tigtening his wheels up :D:D:eh?::p:p

lil ben

[jimmy]

will try dig em up

I did that ben, and broke an outdrive and cracked a hex!

[Chrislong]

Jimmy, too much steroids mate.
I have been lucky with hex's, I think I have only ever done 1 - and i think that was a wheel belonging to someone else too... even when my nuts have come loose, wheels have not striped hexes... bizarre.

[Richard Lowe]

They might not be Proline's Jimmy, I didn't see any branding and they look to be a different plastic.

Ben, the hex's on the B44/JC front wheels are about twice as deep as the Losi wheels, so much harder/impossible to strip.

[ben]

Oh right thats ACE. I think i might wait a bit then till i get a batch of wheels and see what these B44/jconcepts wheels are like.:D:D

Jimmy ur an animal to break an outdrive lol:p. What were you tightening them up with e.g was it an electric driver?

lil ben

[jimmy]

haha, this is the 501X. the hexes broke because they are the 'other way round' so the bend over the pin and snap if you tighten too much. I stripped a wheel and had one of woodys amazing 'hammered' nuts on- which was supposed to stop it coming off. unfortunately it really REALLY was hard to get off.. and the hardened (one way) out drive just snapped.


im no animal!!! not really :D

[jimmy]

AE should have gone to a Touring sized hex on the front like hot bodies - rather than tease us with a hex that looks the same but isn't. The larger hex is ever less likely to strip than the new AE one.

(then perhaps you b44 boys would have been able to use the D4 and new Kyosho wheels also)

[font9a]

Like my Maverick MTB anodized boutique bike, I'd like to stick with the theme of earthtone. I want to dye my B44 wheels some kind of baby poop brownish green. any RIT dye formulations come to mind? I thought about boiling them with the diapers, but the wife was adamantly against heating the panties on the stove.... go figure.

So here I am with chiminea at the ready, taking care to stoke the fire that will boil the concoction to a perfect putrid color. I haven't had time to perfect the mix, but I'm going to empirically add yellow, green, and red until some color coagulate begins to dominate.

If you're still awake and reading this, and you aren't pre-occupied by making crop circles in the Bath Countryside, please do chime in your lessons.

I will be stopping the color cure with acid (pure lime juice + vinegar) and an icy cold bath (ice + water).

I'll then heat it up again for about 10 minutes to exhale all the pollutants. I'll apply a thick layer of Avant Skin Light Guard 45SPF over night (don't tell the missus - it cost $100 a bottle) and then rinsing in cold water and acetone in the AM.

Hopefully the wheels will develop ZERO "liver spots" and will continue to dominate as they have the past couple seasons.


-- f9a

[showtime]

sounds like a lot of fannying around just to run wheels of a different colour :confused:

i just run whatever wheels i've got the right tyres on at the time :)

[josh_smaxx]

I lent some newer pins last sunday on yellow wheels and they kept putting me off :confused: i like white :)

[sparrow.2]

I like yellow wheels. That way I can run Marmite lids in a pinch...

[Chrislong]

Have any JConcepts wheels made it to UK shops yet? I want to use these.

[markwilliamson2001]

Why haven't buggies come up with a standardised fitting for wheels yet!??? If a bunch of 'flat track' guys can, why can't the buggy manufacturers do it???:rolleyes::rolleyes:
I know that Rear wheels are now pretty much standardised fitting, but I wish they would hurry up and do the same for front wheels!

Seems to me to be a way of making racers buy the manufacturer's only wheels....

[Chrislong]

Hi Mark,
It would be great if all matched, agreed.

But we are better now than ever before, going back to the days before the B4, no wheels matched - not just due to fitment but due to offset. Just look at the deep dish of the B3, and medium dish of the Schumacher Cats.

So it looks to me like it is slowly going that way. Its better today than it has ever been before anyway.

[bigred5765]

YELLOW

[daz]

Yellow is the only way forward!!!!

[Mike Hudson]

White, pink or black is the way to go ;)

[bigred5765]

Yellow