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Here's one of my bikes that I just finished restoring a couple of weeks ago. I have an original seat coming for it and a new seat post that should have arrived by now but hasn't.

Bike rides like a dream and the Shimano DXR brakes are by far the best I've used yet.

Whoever made the arm did a pretty good job actually, quite surprising considering the screws they used elsewhere. It wouldn't be too hard to restore with all the Thunder Tiger parts available. Is it an actual B2 or a B3? I dont know the differences between them as I was never into post tub chassis R...

If you owned this buggy what would you do with it? Restore it, run it, sell it off, keep for parts or throw it in the bin? It is pretty rough, has a home made arm, some coarse screw treatment, body painted in house paint and is generally beat. If it is an original B2 then it's quite rare. I don't ow...

Unfortunately it will probably cost more to build then to just pick up a cheap 2nd hand buggy. The problem is though if I did that I'd still have left over parts which would lead to another buggy and the vicious cycle would start all over again.

After digging through all my stuff I thought I'd build a runner out of left over parts that I wouldn't otherwise use, so, I might as well put them to use. I'm toying between the idea of running a wide arm car with modern tires, or keeping with the narrow arms and 1.9 tires for nostalgia. I'm leaning...

The old Bolink body is still available and fits straight on the DS perfectly. The HPI body is too long in my opinion and requires too much messing around to make fit.

Hello, Although I am new to this forum I have been building, racing and collecting Associated RC cars for the past 20+ years. I've recently had a 5 year break from the collecting side of things due mainly to concentrating on racing. Now that I've hung up my transmitter I've decided to get back into ...