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Tire needs
Tires need to serve the environment in which they are run. Instead of asking for specific kinds of tire, it may be more helpful to state what kinds of enviroments we need to run in, and whether we want extra traction or extra slip there.
1: Dusty college hallways and corridors, mostly made up of plastic (?) tile and polished stone. Dusty smooth painted cement floors may also fit this type.
2: Typical street and parking lot pavement.
3: Gritty, textured, non-slip surfaces which offer lots of traction (but which tend to eat other tires for lunch), like gritty cement or other sandpaper-like surfaces.
4: Track surfaces designed exclusively for traction.
5: Track surfaces designed exclusively for slip.
6: Track surfaces designed for a mix of traction and slip.
7: Dirt, or simulated dirt, tracks (rally race style); which tend to have inconsistent surfaces.
These may not be every kind of RC racing surface, but they are the most common, and most interesting examples of surfaces for which XMODS cars are designed. If I have left your favorite surface out, please just reply with it.
I don’t know how soon I will encounter each kind of racing environment, but I would very much like to see tires to suit each of these, if possible.
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