cmgreen - you might well be right (I genuinely have no idea!!). So then let's look at the chain. The company that makes them want to make a profit when they sell them to Schumacher, Schumacher want to make a profit when they sell them to shops, and shops want to make a profit when they sell them to end users.
The point that all the above happening, is the point that at which one of those members of the chain stops bothering - and at that point, there are no tyres.
I'm a racer like everyone else, and I pay for 99% of my kit, and just like everyone else, I'd like to make my racing as cheap as possible. I just think that sometimes you have to be realistic.
To put another slant on it, I'd be surprised if the margins in any of the tyres available (Schumacher, Fastrax, Ballistic Buggy etc) are much different.
Jay, Prebuilts are a new concept to off road really. It's only very recently that they have been available at all. I don't think there is much of a desire to go that way from Off Road drivers.
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