Renegade
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Hey guys Chad here and I'm finally getting around to a full review of the new B&H clod tires manufactured by rc4wd. I apologize for the delay but I had been extremely busy and it felt like I was always waiting for parts haha.
But onto the Details!:
The tires were designed and created so that clod guys would no longer need to spend hours on end dremeling stockclod/stockusa-1 tires to gain traction in offroad conditions. I have personally sat down with a dremel for upwards of 8 hours shaving a set of stock clod tires, so the addition of a company like rc4wd listening to customer advise and willing to offer a specific product to us clod guys really shows how hard they are working to support us. These B&H clod tires retail on www.rc4wd.com for about $35 a pair and come included with nice, soft, clod sized foams. The rubber compound used on these is second to none and should provide great traction on a variety of surfaces for an extended period of time. They will fit on any standard clod/txt/usa-1 wheel as well as the billet aluminum wheels for the clod as well.
For the testing of these tires I was going to mount them up on my very sucessful ripper pro chassis and head to the 2nd rcmtra pro-mt point series event to give them a whirl. here you can see my truck transformed with the addition of the B&H tires which took the place of the trusty imex pullers for this event.
Concerns:
My initial thought about these tires was that they were too tall, and too wide. In my opinion the need of a tire larger than stock for racing was unprefered. I can understand where rc4wd was leaning though because I realize not only do the racing guys want these tires, but the general bashers are drawn to them as well because of their aggressive look. So in the case of a basher the added ground clearance will probably contribute to a little more fun as they would not get hung up as often as a smaller tire. My next issue with the tires was how tall the lugs themselves were. Not only were they angled, but they were raised quite a bit compared to the lug height on a normal cut clod/usa-1 tire. By shortening the lugs the tire would achieve more forward traction due to a more ridgid lug that would dig in rather than fold back. Another performance aspect that would benefit to having a smaller overall tire with shorter lugs would be a huge weight advantage. As the tires are they weigh just under the weight of a stock clod tire and are significantly heavier than your average shaved clod tire.
ONTO THE PICTURES!
here you can see how the rc4wd tires dwarf the imex pullers
And here they are placed against an old Amark pin style tire. The Amarks are very wide so any hint that the rc4wd's are narrow is far off haha. The rc4wd's are all around large and provide a huge footprint.
Now for the shots that matter... The pictures of the B&H tires and how the stack up to custom shaved stock clod tires that they are in line to replace. You'll notice how the
rc4wd versions are only slightly larger but its easy to see how oversized the lugs really are when matched up to shaved stockers.
Now here's a pic of the B&H tires up against a tape measure for a little size reference
PERFORMANCE:
On the track these rc4wd tires did exactly what I thought they'd do. The race was held in a wet grassy area and these tires gave up nothing out of the corners. Upon landing off the jumps the soft tires, compared with soft foams, gave a plush bounce free landing which allowed me to pick up on the throttle faster than the competition. I ran them up against my cut stock clod tires in order to compare and found that the stock clod tires actually dug a little better. The way I see it though is that even if rc4wd keeps the oversized lugs which may not perform as well as cut stock clod lugs, the rc4wd tires will still be better than everything else openly available as they finished 2nd in that race behind only my truck with the cut stock tires.
Here are some action shots from the event.
Overall I was pretty pleased with the way the rc4wd tires turned out and they are definitly going to save people a ton of time shaving tires. In the end I wish they were a smaller tire to better suite the racing side because of how many other options are already available to "bashers" but they are a high quality tire either way and I look forward to putting more time on them. I'll be sure to update if I have any issues or figure anything new out about them as I continue to test.
But onto the Details!:
The tires were designed and created so that clod guys would no longer need to spend hours on end dremeling stockclod/stockusa-1 tires to gain traction in offroad conditions. I have personally sat down with a dremel for upwards of 8 hours shaving a set of stock clod tires, so the addition of a company like rc4wd listening to customer advise and willing to offer a specific product to us clod guys really shows how hard they are working to support us. These B&H clod tires retail on www.rc4wd.com for about $35 a pair and come included with nice, soft, clod sized foams. The rubber compound used on these is second to none and should provide great traction on a variety of surfaces for an extended period of time. They will fit on any standard clod/txt/usa-1 wheel as well as the billet aluminum wheels for the clod as well.
For the testing of these tires I was going to mount them up on my very sucessful ripper pro chassis and head to the 2nd rcmtra pro-mt point series event to give them a whirl. here you can see my truck transformed with the addition of the B&H tires which took the place of the trusty imex pullers for this event.
Concerns:
My initial thought about these tires was that they were too tall, and too wide. In my opinion the need of a tire larger than stock for racing was unprefered. I can understand where rc4wd was leaning though because I realize not only do the racing guys want these tires, but the general bashers are drawn to them as well because of their aggressive look. So in the case of a basher the added ground clearance will probably contribute to a little more fun as they would not get hung up as often as a smaller tire. My next issue with the tires was how tall the lugs themselves were. Not only were they angled, but they were raised quite a bit compared to the lug height on a normal cut clod/usa-1 tire. By shortening the lugs the tire would achieve more forward traction due to a more ridgid lug that would dig in rather than fold back. Another performance aspect that would benefit to having a smaller overall tire with shorter lugs would be a huge weight advantage. As the tires are they weigh just under the weight of a stock clod tire and are significantly heavier than your average shaved clod tire.
ONTO THE PICTURES!
here you can see how the rc4wd tires dwarf the imex pullers
And here they are placed against an old Amark pin style tire. The Amarks are very wide so any hint that the rc4wd's are narrow is far off haha. The rc4wd's are all around large and provide a huge footprint.
Now for the shots that matter... The pictures of the B&H tires and how the stack up to custom shaved stock clod tires that they are in line to replace. You'll notice how the
rc4wd versions are only slightly larger but its easy to see how oversized the lugs really are when matched up to shaved stockers.
Now here's a pic of the B&H tires up against a tape measure for a little size reference
PERFORMANCE:
On the track these rc4wd tires did exactly what I thought they'd do. The race was held in a wet grassy area and these tires gave up nothing out of the corners. Upon landing off the jumps the soft tires, compared with soft foams, gave a plush bounce free landing which allowed me to pick up on the throttle faster than the competition. I ran them up against my cut stock clod tires in order to compare and found that the stock clod tires actually dug a little better. The way I see it though is that even if rc4wd keeps the oversized lugs which may not perform as well as cut stock clod lugs, the rc4wd tires will still be better than everything else openly available as they finished 2nd in that race behind only my truck with the cut stock tires.
Here are some action shots from the event.
Overall I was pretty pleased with the way the rc4wd tires turned out and they are definitly going to save people a ton of time shaving tires. In the end I wish they were a smaller tire to better suite the racing side because of how many other options are already available to "bashers" but they are a high quality tire either way and I look forward to putting more time on them. I'll be sure to update if I have any issues or figure anything new out about them as I continue to test.
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