Testing some low cost tyres...

[Esseaux]

Highly unscientific as usual but the test gave me some insight into which of my cheap tyres works the best on smooth wooden surfaces.

All the tyres were wiped clean between the runs with a cloth that I sprayed some WD40 on to ensure optimal and consistent grip.

Cheers and thanks for watching!


The first video shows my four sets of tyres on my Redcat Gen 7 chassis with Portal Axles.

https://youtu.be/CnvMyJ3U_sg




The second video shows our FTX Fury Xtreme chassis with some tweaks.

https://youtu.be/9O8zDDiNFEs

[lkvisser]

I found wood to be a very deceiving materials when testing tire/ rubber compounds. I had cheap hard rubber getting better traction than the top line tires...,


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[Esseaux]

That is True what you say. My wooden board is just one way of conducting tests like this. I feel it's a pretty controlled and consistent way of doing such a test compared to doing a test on a pile of rocks where the line you drive for each test slightly differs.

This test proved at least a couple of theories that I had before doing the test. One was that the larger the contact area of the tyre was, the better the grip on a flat polished surface. The FTX has the largest contact area and second was the Louise (Duratrax) and they also performed best on that board.

Once the car hits the trail or rockpile these results will not matter much ��

Thanks for the comment

[odomandr]

Every time I see one of these tests I cant help but think how of how many times I have driven on a inclined wooden surface....none

That being said I don’t know of a better way to test functionality of a compound or tread design that isn’t somewhat anecdotal

[Esseaux]

This is probably the first time I've driven on such a surface too. Wooden obstacles do appear now and then on some tracks and is usually raw untreated pieces of planks which probably has more grip than my board from a bookshelf which is very smooth and polished.

As we have no big rocks in my neck of the woods, bookshelves are a good substitute

[JatoTheRipper]

Originally Posted by Esseaux

As we have no big rocks in my neck of the woods, bookshelves are a good substitute

That's a bummer that you don't have any good crawling spots near you! But I'm glad you improvise and still crawl on what you have.

[Esseaux]

Improvisation is my middle name

[mindseye]

Not bad at all. Awesome work.