Again, bake your tires and reglue them. It's not that hard. Beadlocks add rotating mass which means you're pulling more amps through your ESC and your motor's getting hotter.

Ten sets of wheels? 4wd SCT is already dead in ThunderbirdJunkie's area, and his 2wd SCT and bugyg are easy on rubber...ThunderbirdJunkie has MAYBE five sets of 2wd buggy rears and 3 pairs of 2wd buggy fronts...per car, he MIGHT go through a pair of tires on his 2w stuff a SEASON...and that's mostly REARS.

Yeah, ten sets, at $20 a set...K? Worth burning up a $120-$250 speedo over? Is it worth a DNF because of a bead coming off?

ITBJHO no. If you're cool with it, and spending $50 on a set of wheels so you can take forty five minutes to swap PL-only tires on your PL beadlocks when AKA Gridirons or (blech) Jconcepts Barcodes are the tires at the track simply because the tires you normally run at the track where you only race nights aren't hooking up quite nicely for the big race being held there during the day, go for it. ThunderbirdJunkie's post was not for or against beadlocks. There is a reason Associated quit using that stupid 3 piece rim crap on gas trucks and electric trucks...beadlocks have their place, again, ITBJHO, but it's not on a race truck. If you want to run them, go right ahead, but the convenience of already having a set of tires in the pit box ready to rock and roll is quite nice. Swapping tires on beadlocks on race day to experiment? Pfft, F that. ThunderbirdJunkie races toy cars to relax, not to do extra, unnecessary work. He can see changing a camber link, or even shock oils, at the track...but spending an hour mounting and dismounting tires? Pfft. Screw that, that's too much like work. ThunderbirdJunkie works enough between his full time job and his full time classes. Toy cars are for playing.

Everything old is new again
Let's all rush to buy the hot new Associated 3 piece wheels for our RC10s! 2.2s? That's new, that's stupid...let's stick with 1.5" ProLine Waffles, they hook up GOOD ENOUGH.