[pistole]

- hi.

- anyone here can help with sourcing cheaper tyres for practice ?

- eg , all the "major" brands (eg , Vega , Mojo , MG) , have very controlled pricing (which are all in the RM$7XX range).

- was hoping get access to a more affordable stream of tyres for leisure karters and also racers wanting to do practice/setup.

thanks.

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[Mikko Nassi]

Deli(Indonesia), MRF(India), Apexis(Taiwan).

In general all these companies make tyres that are a fair bit harder than the race tyres.

There's a few choices for you to get started . You can go to tracks with rental karts such as CityKarting and see what tyres they use - you could ask them to buy those tyres or to bring in some of that brand in their next shipment (possibly a slightly softer compound than the rental tyres). I think CityKarting uses some cheaper tyres on their rental 125s that aren't an incredibly hard compound.

Prices should be somewhere around 30%-50% cheaper than most race tyres and they should last longer.

The main problem with most cheaper tyres is that they can vary a lot from batch to batch (softer/harder compound), and from tyre to tyre (different circumference so you have to match your rear tyres to avoid massive handling problems). That's why it's impossible to use them for a proper racing series. But that isn't a problem for practice.

If you're planning to do setup though you have to do it on the tyres you are going to be racing.

[Chan]

We are the distributor of Deli kart tyre in Malaysia and have some stock of the Deli racing tyre. The price per set is RM460.00.


Chan
KRS Motorsports Sdn Bhd

[pistole]

- hi,

- how is the performance of the Deli Kart Tyre ?

- comparable to , say , Mojo D2 ?

thank you.

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[JohnKing6]

Bridgestone YGK tyres - the same ones used for the senior class in the SL Cup - are available at Speedway Plus Elite for RM590. The performance and durability is similar to the Mojo D2.

[pistole]

- thanks for the input/suggestion

- really appreciated.

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[James Leong]

I would like to just inform the public that Kartmore Racing Services is the Official Distributor of Bridgestone tyres in Malaysia. I note with surprise that Elite circuit has YGK tyres for sale. As far as I know from Bridgestone Japan, only YJL tyres were allowed into Malaysia under RL Karting STRICTLY for the Yamaha SL Cup races for 2010. These tyres are not allowed to be sold to the public.

I will have to check with BS Japan as to how you have YGK in your stock!

James Leong

[pistole]

- hi James,

- perhaps a list of tyres for which you hold distributing rights to , and their prices would be helpful too.

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[James Leong]

We hold the rights to the following make of tyres - Mojo (due to us being the Rotax Distributor since Mojo is under Rotax), Bridgestone tyres and Deli tyres. For 2011 we will be bringing in to Malaysia in big quantities of BS tyres for other events which we will be organising. Tyres are expensive in Malaysia not due to manufacturing cost but the duties. We have to pay 40% duty and 10% sales tax on all tyres. This is nearly 50% of the total cost of the tyres. Unless the government review the duties for kart tyres, we will have to pay this high amount for tyres to race.

Deli tyres were brought in by us mainly on the cadet small tyres as we wanted to have a cheaper tyre for the Micromax races. Deli has bigger racing kart tyres and we brought these into Malaysia to supplement our sale of cheaper version karts that comes complete with tyres. The Deli racing tyres have been used before in events but drivers complained that lack of grip etc and ask us to sell better tyres.

Therefore you need to know what you really want. If you are just hobby karting then a relative cheap tyre will suffice. But if you want something better and readily available, then I would recommend the Mojo D2 tyres.

James Leong

[Mikko Nassi]

I'm not sure on the exact laptimes but I assume that the Deli tyres would be anywhere from 1 to 4 seconds slower depending on the track than Mojo D2 tyres.

[TAG Motorsport]

Hello,

We like to inform you that we, TAG Motorsport, are together with our partner in Taiwan distributor of Maxxis tires in the Asia region. TAG Motorsport is concerned with Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei, Philippines and Vietnam. In other Asian regions contact us for contact details in other countries.

Special for Maxxis tires we have a website http://www.maxxis-karting.com

Slicks:
Maxxis SLR (medium compound) RM 575,00 per set
Maxxis MM (soft compound) RM 695,00 per set
Maxxis Raptor (hard compound) RM 435,00 per set
BZR Hobby tire RM 395,00 per set

Slicks for cadet/rookie:
Maxxis Rookie Yellow RM 570,00 per set

Rain:
Maxxis SLW RM 680,00 per set

The Maxxis SLR is at the moment very popular in Europe as it is a very comfortable tire to drive with. It is a nice race tire in many national races are the SLR used

James is right the tires are 40% duty and 10% sales tax. So you can't compare the prices on the internet for example in Europe or USA. Please note also that some website do not mention anything of duty tax etc. The prices given are for Malaysia market in other countries contact us for prices.

At the moment we have limited stocks as we are waiting for the shipment from the Maxxis factory. Higher amount will be aspected in december 2010.

For any information please contact us our general website is http://www.tag-systems.com

[pistole]

- thank you for the update.

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[Jules]

TAG Motorsports,

Do you carry the HG3? we used them in the past and that was the tyre to have before the BS YGK came on board.....

[pistole]

- i just got two sets of HG3。

- will test them out and report.

- would anyone here know what sort of performance to expect ?

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[TAG Motorsport]

We carry also HG3 but the SLR is the replacement for the HG3 next year the HG3 will not be sold anymore.

If you need any help for the right tire please sent us an email we will give you a good price and info.