another 1/8th bike "newbie"....

[madbad jezza]

call me a dunce, but i,ve bought myself one of kyosho,s excellent looking 1/8th bike kits - with the moving rider (mk2 i believe?).

but for the life of me, i just cant grasp what radio gear i need for this kit (it hasn,t arrived yet, so i know nothing about it).

why is the proper kyosho radio gear no good?, does it take standard size servo,s and reciever?, does the tamtech radio gear fit and if so what does that sort of radio gear consist of?,whats a CPR unit - is that the reciever/speed controller/servo all in one?.

it might make a bit more sense when the kit arrives - hopefully!.

cheers,

james.

[TWINSET]

Hey James

Got a Futaba setup here;

Servo is smaller (Acoms in pic also for comparison)

Battery is weenie

Receiver on this one is also a speedo.

The lot came from Stella I think, for around $60, but modelsport also do the same kit (their ref FKMCS, £69 possibly with TX, but not mentioned in description)

[fury_dice(2)]

This looks like the fella...

http://www.rcmart.com/catalog/product_info...roducts_id=1516

Service from Dinball is usually pretty good - 7 days ish from HK. Hobbystores (UK) seem to be wanting £80. HTH. David

[TWINSET]

Yep, that's the kit I got

[madbad jezza]

yeh, i noticed the futaba set-up in modelsports catalogue aswell, they do a battery aswell, and they also offer a "deal" price for these items for about £90ish. they also list the bikes for £80ish, but i,ve just ordered mine from stella models (in hong kong), it comes with some kind of washer - apparantly for the frame. total price (including shipping) was £61ish - pretty good i thought. the futaba stuff looks ok, but i,ve heard its a bit naff - is that true?, it looks ok.

still a bit baffled though.........[8)]

[TWINSET]

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Originally posted by madbad jezza

the futaba stuff looks ok, but i,ve heard its a bit naff - is that true?, it looks ok.

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No idea, haven't built mine yet - got a spare set of GPM friction forks if you want 'em though

[madbad jezza]

well, i,ve just given dingball my address details so i can order the gizmo bits for the bike - cheers for the link [].

now i,ve got a rough idea what i,m looking for, i,ll look around a bit more. i have actually got 2 sub-micro servos kicking about somewhere, and these are tiny!.

i feel a plan coming together............

cheers []

[madbad jezza]

cheers on the offer of the forks andy, but i,m gonna get me some pukka oil damped ones....[]

[Igottamiya]

I'm using a full size (Novak Electra oneway) ESC in my bike with a regular receiver (lives in a rubber bag under the rear cowling). It works very well - a lot better than the recommended Futaba kit.

Make sure you get the oval frame washers.

[madbad jezza]

these bikes must be bigger than i think then if your using some standard radio gear then rizwan....[:0]

yep, the bike came with an after market oval (frame?) washer thrown in. the frame wears out pretty rapidly apparantly, doesn,t it?.

here,s an interesting link i,ve found - there,s even a downloadable video clip of two of these bike racing!, well mint!.

http://www.steliosh.net/rcmoto/index.htm

cheers,

james.

[Igottamiya]

You shouldn checkout the radiocontrol motorbike group on Yahoo. There are some serious bikes there.

A great site also is

http://www.crazynutracing.com

Do a search on the messages for "hor" and you'll find plenty of advice on what to install, how to tune and what to expect from the bike.

Apparently Thunder Tiger are testing a R/C off-road bike at the moment. If it's true then that'll be something worth waiting for.

[madbad jezza]

wow, there,s tonnes of information on the yahoo site, and some fantastic looking bikes on the crazynut racing one, spot-on [][]

nice one mate,cheers!.

[Stefan(2)]

To keep it on the bike's

must i fit in a micro servo or just the regular 3003 size?

Stefan

[madbad jezza]

stefan, i think a standard size servo may fit - just. i,ve got a couple of spare sub-micro servo,s kicking about, which i thought of using, but i think that they might actually be TOO small!. i think its going to need at least a little bit of weight at the front end to help handling.

there definately isn,t a lot of space in these bikes!.

james.

[Stefan(2)]

roger that,

mmm, i am going to order me some gpm alloy rims..

so lets see then what happends with the stearing

i fist going to collect all the hop ups i want,

after that.. well.. building it!

Stefan