Buggy tires without spikes

[Rocking Donkey]

I am trying to drum up support for buggy racing at my local club, but am concerned about the carpet wear caused by spiked tires. I remember back in the day people used to run foam tires on buggys and have seen some pictures of buggy slicks for clay tracks, but I'm having some trouble tracking any down in the UK. I think the best way to go would be to have a control tire which was carpet friendly. Does anyone out there in forum land have any info that might help me? If we have a control tire I guess it would be best to have something that wasn't mounted for the different hexes and also we would be running 2wd and 4wd.

Cheers

Ben

[jono83]

the wear on the carpet will be hardly noticeable with spike tyres our club has had the same carpet for a long time and we always you spike tyre and you can barley tell its been run on

[RickRick]

Our club uses proline dirthawgs on carpet, the grips quite good with addative, and most of our members are still using the same set of tires for the second season, a few even ran on tarmac with the touring cars though summer.

[Chrislong]

Surely the additive ruins the carpet quicker (10 folder quicker), than a spiked tyre.

[Lee]

It depends on the additive Chris, a wintergreen based additive will kill the user as well as the carpet though

[Chrislong]

Yeh thats true, I used to use that stuff too, was ace.

But even on modern additives, it leaves a darkened line on the carpet - look at the carpet NERCR uses on the straight - its a great big piece of carpet which had been used by the BRCA for a demonstration and now NERCR have it, in just one demo it has black zig zags up it from additives. Yet a year or 2, or 3, of racing at NERCR with spikes on it and its just as good today as the first day they got it.

Spikes do no harm.