[QUOTE=T-BirdJunkie;9700026]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

Wow , thats quite a rant there Tbird , but you are right on the money . I have both types of wheels and there is a visible difference in acceleration between the two . I originally bought the beadlocks to ease tyre changes but now boil off bald tyres and keep my wheels . The beadlocks are gathering dust.