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Sorry - but person rich enough to buy and import an Lambo, smuggle it in to the country and fax some plates just to avoid paying taxes loses his car and its the governments fault? 

People should be protesting if this DIDN'T happen, because that would be far less fair. 60-70% tax sounds steep, but that really the rate people who have supercar money should be taxed at. 

I used to run the meetings there a few years back, but not racing now.....

You can order direct from CML via their Shopatron. If anyone in their supply chain has the part it will show up. 

CML Distribution are still the UK supplier for Team Associated and that doesn't sound like its about to change. You may also be able to get them via Horizon but they won't be the primary source, so places like Modelsport shouldn't have a problem. Not that MS would be my first port of call for the sort of racing orientated stuff that forms most of Associated range.

What might prove interesting is who has the better supply network and can get new stuff to you faster....

Men should be like a Tamiya Lunchbox?

You mean wobbly and prone to falling over at the slightest provocation? 

You can fit pretty much anything thats not too high if its a DEST210 - I've run my 210 on normal sticks, saddles (one after the other to act like a stick) and shortys with a foam spacer. They all work. 

If its a DEST410 you'll need a saddle pack, These work fine - I've fitted them to my 410, but these will not fit.

I've put it on sales before and even used it in defence when someone complained - I sold a Yokomo Bmax where one of the bevel gears bust the first time the new owner tried it. Thing is those gears did tend to go after a while, but there was no real way of knowing when - it worked when I sold it to him, it just didn't stay working. 

Ebay seemed OK with my response that it was working when he got it, but actually cos I was still running a Bmax at the time and had a bundle of spare gears I sent the guy one and that shut him up. 

Admittedly I can't see how they are safer for the courier at 30% as opposed to storage charge, but they aren't more dangerous. That only happens when someone tries to recharge them!

Thats very much the nature of a lot of businesses now - just look at bicycles or Android tablets. With most actual manufacturing done in a relatively few factories in the Far East, and the complex parts being sourced from someone else anyway filling the market with lots of similar products is easy. 

In some ways its good, as it drives cost down and profile up, but it can be an issue if you need spares so items made this way tend to be disposable. 
Also such a system actively discourages innovation - if you spend time and money developing something totally new you can sure someone will rip of your idea instantly and whilst they may hit the market slightly behind you they will have the advantage that unlike you they didn't have to spend on R&D. 

Thought the cars (and the whole segment they were in) were awesome, the rest was dreadful! Too much forced humour with the 'celebrities', the audience 'fight', the grumpy NASCAR driver etc. 

It was both the best bits of old Top Gear, and also the worst rolled into one. 

They need to stop trying to be funny. The best humour from those three just seems to come when they are just getting on with the task at hand. By all means give them silly tasks to do, but cut the scripted 'comedy' and stick to what flows naturally. 

Lovely. My last Yoke was the plastic fantastic mk1 Bmax but this is more like an Xray. I love that pretty much the whole back end - even some gearbox parts - are common between the two so spares will be easier.

I'm gonna sell my 2 Durango 410's and let my son have my very blinged up 210.

One of the guys I race with was involved in some of the engineering for the GT. Says they've had some seriously late nights trying to fix problems with the wheel hubs.

Uninsured drivers are a bit of a special case. Since they have no insurance to pay you, you are pretty much on your own. Some policies do cover against damage from uninsured drivers, but not all. You can in theory sue for damages - some insurance companies will even help with that, but remember a big reason people drive without insurance is that they don't have much money so it might not get you much.

Uninsured drivers are a special type of scum.....

Remember that whilst you go through your insurance company to make the claim, it doesn't actually cost them a penny. The bill falls squarely on the at fault party.

The only 'cost' to you is the excess, which admittedly for a new driver is probably pretty high.

Rear end means its not your fault. Yes you will have to state when you renew insurance that you've had a claim, but they will ask for details and it will be clear its not down to you.

I was hit on the side under similar circumstances and my insurance never changed at all.

Going the other way what about a pair of Carisma GT24b's? Can be had for £70 a piece, though you'll be wanting the 2S lipo as well for another fiver, and a clear shell to paint as an owl if you want.

They won't do grass, but are OK on astro and anything flat so finding space to run them isn't hard. My wife loves our GT24b, its one of only 2 of my RC's she will use (the other is my Wheely King) because she reckons its 'cute like an over eager puppy'.

Unfortunately its probably not your actual job, just the having one bit. Students are a catagory all to themselves, whilst employed people get lumped together. As I said, not always logical....

Only reason that can be is that sadly more of your employed colleagues have crashed cars lately than students have. Insurance is cold, hard and frequently not all that logical statistics.....

I used to order parts from Liquid RC in the US and Roundabout 20 miles from here.  Liquid was 99 cent postage and the stuff arrived in 5-6 days. Roundabout cost a few quid postage and took just as long, except he didn't even post the stuff till Tuesday. One of them is still in business, the other isn't.....

Thats interesting because I much prefer typing on my Nexus 7 than my work supplied Ipad Mini 2. Given that they are similar sized screens (Mini 2 is slightly bigger) and were both high end units at the same time its a pretty good comparison. Of course the fragmented Android comment is true though - All versions have worked well on the Nexus (but then they would on Androids on product) but less effectively on my Sony Z3 phone or my son's Asus Memo

I took my Wheely King swimming at New Brighton last week. And I do mean swimming - with big monster tyres it floats (a bit) and the waterproof Quicrun let me use the tyres as paddles!.

You can use it and it will work fine because as noted NiCd and NiMH cells have the same voltage. However I'd be a little cautious using it because it sounds like its very old if it says that!

HPI UK seem to get stock on a set schedule. Good sales of a particular product can result in it running out until they next restock - they don't seem to speed up orders to match demand at all.

Why would you have a servo on backorder? There are like a million different types out there - if the one you want isn't in stock just get a similar one!

By motors I guess you've got an SR with 2 380's? Mines an EV with a single 540, which in my case is a 7.5t Etronix Phaser brushless motor hence the tracks coming off. Its a lot quicker than stock!