“Most drivers report much long life” with FM-V visors, and the visor’s coating “not come off when you drive hard rain condition.” Don’t mistake the amusing use of Japanglish on FM-V’s website as an indicator of an inferior product – these are definitely worthy competition to the other two popular mirrored visors available on the market (CaraCoat and LLC from Lucky Design).
I recently got a couple of these fancy looking visors for use on my yet to be “dressed up” plain white Arai SK5 helmet.
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Over the next few weeks we’ll be looking at some of the new karts homologated for the 2009-2014 CIK-FIA homologation period in detail by asking the manufacturers about their latest creations and what went into their designs. We’ll start things off with Arrow’s latest CIK homologated kart, the Arrow X1-CIK.
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Maranello have come out with a very radical new design for 2009, the RS8. It features a centrally located rear brake system and 3rd bearing with a floating disc, floating caliper, and floating bearing. The entire frame design is also different to anything else currently on the market. The tubing has a symmetrical design, no rear torsion bar (one fixed tube across the back), and a very interesting front end.
View the pictures here, and discuss the kart in the forums here.
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Edge Cameras, an On onboard digital video recording company developed for racers, has come on board as an advertiser on KartingAsia.com. They will be sending over a unit for KartingAsia.com for our use so you can expect to see a lot of onboard karting action once the camera arrives! To view and purchase what Edge Cameras has to offer visit their website www.edgecameras.com.
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Rotax has introduced a new Reed Valve assembly which will replace the one currently in use. This change came about because Rotax’s reed valve assembly production tool reached the end of its production life cycle.
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I’ve used my new AMB personal transponder at the first round of the Malaysian Rotax Max Challenge so I’m now able to share what added functionality you gain on MyLaps.com by owning your own transponder and the other benefits.
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