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08-26-2009, 10:14 AM
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08-26-2009, 02:20 PM
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08-27-2009, 06:00 AM
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 . The cheater tires (ROAR Legal) also won the first ever ROAR SCT National: For 2009 ROAR brought the highly popular Short Course truck class to ROAR competition. In a field of heavy competition from across the United States the JConcepts Goose Bumps were the popular tire choice for SCT competition. With a clean sweep of TQ, 1st, 2nd and 3rd place the JConcepts Goose Bumps are indeed the Hot tire for short course racing. Who knows though, we may do a scaler tire at some point to add to our line-up  . | |
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08-27-2009, 09:18 PM
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| Well you need to see where I'm coming from. I showed up for the season opener at S&N's Trackside fall of last year just as I'd done every week during the long Wisconsin winters since 2001, only now with a Short Course truck. Story at the time was the trucks would be set up "spec", save products from RPM and the Pro-Line bodies. And I'm all but quoting track owner Scotty Ernst here; "as more products come to the market, if they don't take away from the look of the truck we'll allow them". I've got a Traxxas Slash that's basically bone-stock straight out of the box, save a 27-turn brushed motor and a body from New Era Models, because the truck was bought secondhand and didn't come with one.  I have my pit set up for a total of about ten minutes before someone comes over and starts giving me hell because the back tires poke out of the bedsides. A few benches down there's a guy with Losi aluminum shocks, and the kid that ended up winning the night (by about six laps) must've had something like a 7.5 brushless in it, sure as hell wasn't a 17.5. I bring this up on the Trackside thread over on RCTech, and basically get shot down left and right over maybe a tread-width and a half. I've seen guys clearance the crap out of wheel openings to the point where you could almost see the inner sidewall, other drivers that night are BLATANTLY making huge performance upgrades to their trucks, and I'm getting reamed out for this. At full bump it shows even less.  Long story short, I plead my case, they refuse, I call BS, and now I'm no longer welcome to race at Trackside. And now I'm expected to say "OK" to what most certainly is, no ifs, ands, or buts, a tire with a pin pattern on an SC carcass. You cannot honestly expect myself or anyone else to believe that's an accurate portrayal of a 1:1 Short Course...actually, scratch that, ANY tire made for a 1:1 vehicle, whether it's an offroad truck, dune buggy, dirt bike, go-kart, whatever, save perhaps the rover NASA planted on Mars. Trackside has to be at the very least one of the top 3 hardest packed blue-groove style indoor tracks in the country, in the other classes if you don't have a set of slicks don't even bother walking in the door. (If) I could show up with my ROAR SCT-built SC10, I could have a set of Goosebumps with 20 packs worth of driving on pavement until there's almost nothing left of a tread pattern but a bunch of immeasurably short dots and dashes across the carcass, point to the line in your advertisement where you claim the tires improve as they wear, and nobody there would be able to say a thing. Now we're back to running slicks, playing the tire sauce wars, bolting horrifyingly powerful motors in that no rookie driver has a hope in hell of keeping control of, and we all might as well've just kept our stadium trucks. Good work guys, and Short Course R/C isn't even a year old. Pro-Line took their popular Bowtie pattern and adopted it into a complex block tread, infact the first time I saw a picture of one on the RCShortCourse front page my first thought was somebody wrote an article on how to professionally groove and sipe a Pro-Line Switch. It doesn't look like JConcepts even made an attempt at making a 1:1 Short Course lookalike with the Goosebumps. And for future reference: defending an accusation of cheating by listing major race wins is kinda ass-backwards... Last edited by OTE_TheMissile; 08-27-2009 at 09:31 PM. |
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08-28-2009, 08:23 AM
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| Sorry to hear about your personal experience and that you feel our tire is a "cheater tire". We certainly respect your opinion on our vendor thread and will always accept constructive critisizm from all RCSC members, but I don't consider your approach to be constructive at all. If you would like to remove your post and discuss it via PM, I would gladly hear you out and give you insight from our position. If you decide to keep your post here, then I will not debate this subject any further. Something radical for Slash owners coming soon  |
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08-28-2009, 08:36 AM
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08-28-2009, 08:49 AM
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08-28-2009, 08:58 AM
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08-28-2009, 09:26 AM
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| LOL.....so hilarious.... I meant I want either a truth body or a dare body haha |
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08-28-2009, 09:33 AM
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08-30-2009, 08:50 AM
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| Just wanted to report that I took the TQ at Hobbyrama and 2nd in the Main with JConcepts Goosebumps in the Mod Short Course class. My freind took 1st also running Goosebumps. Thanks for making a great tire. |
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08-31-2009, 08:33 AM
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09-11-2009, 06:46 AM
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09-11-2009, 03:32 PM
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| Thanks!!! That is sweet |
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09-11-2009, 03:52 PM
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| I have to admit that I too was not a huge fan of the Goosebumps tire when it was released. IMO it looked to much like a ST mini pin tire and detracted from the "Scale" appearance that I felt the SC class was leaning toward. I took a step back from my initial dislike of the design and looked at the bigger picture, the advancement of the SC class. In the big picture, these tires have increased the performance of the SC trucks immensely and I have to admit that my opinion of the Goosebump has changed. It is obvious that the racers have spoken on the subject as well. The Goosebumps work extremely well(evidenced by the big wins they have scored this summer) and while they are mounted on the truck and in use, they don't really look as bad as I thought they did. I'm glad to see JConcepts release tires for us to run in the SC classes, sometimes all that is needed is a different perspective |
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09-11-2009, 11:35 PM
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| I haven't had the pleasure of running the tires yet. I like the idea of more grip. My local track is very dusty and loose. I will have to get a set and see what all the fuss is about. Maybe with these I can keep pace with the rest of the field and stop coming in last. |
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09-13-2009, 06:35 PM
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09-13-2009, 06:43 PM
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| when's somebody going to make a new body for the mini slash? you gonna let pro-line beat ya to it? i think you beat proline on the mini revo body. make some tires too. i haven't owned any of your products before but i really want a illuzion body for my mini revo. would also like to have a illizion body for my mini slash. any word on when and if you will make a body fo the mini slash? |
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09-13-2009, 11:16 PM
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| Maybe come out with a new SC8 body. The stocker is nice but I need something with style. Dare would look sweet that big. |
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09-14-2009, 07:16 AM
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| We are certainly looking into more mini bodies, but there are a few projects that are ahead on the mini Slash. Thank you for the input . |
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