Just to clarify, Ownership has been the same since 2019 most of the time BRPs have had a product for esk8.
In 2019, the Standridge Brothers took ownership of the brand. The only noticeable change in BRP is their mailing address; now they operate out of Seneca, South Carolina. They continue the tradition of ensuring each product is perfect and hope to streamline your ordering process
– https://www.bishopracingproducts.com/
My bad. Just regurgitating something that made its way down the rumor pipeline.
Either way, seems there was a significant quality dip
Yeah electrify having so many issues. and brady somehow blowing the rt70s [correction, it was RT60s] seems like something changed. I keep wondering if there was a particularly bad batch
@Swol_Moon was murdering BRPs in a session iirc. Maybe that was @zero_ads too?
Yep so I heard @Swol_Moon @zero_ads together with @Mbrady aswell as someone that’s not on the forum that ran the brp with threads in them aswell and @R2trivv aswell at a race this summer but not sure if that had to do with the weather being too hot or an isolated case on that so that’s about 5 cases I’ve heard of
I killed another RT60 today on a ride. I will say I was training hard and carving quite hard on them for quite a bit, but it was 55° F today and I thought maybe I could ride a bit harder.
The tire today is also from a confirmed different batch than the ones I just killed 7 of in less than a month.
That’s crazy. we should talk with them. They didn’t previously fail at this rate.
I’ve got several old sets of wides that I’m hoarding like they’re gold
Also how did you kill RT70s? cruising wheels? did you ride them hard at all?
RT60. I never have used the 70’s cuz of grip.
The 60’s used to last me almost 1k miles and never fail.
Now I’m having BRAND NEW tires fail in their first or second 20mi carve ride
Dina’s failed during her tef1 race over the weekend. Cost her a podium looks like.
aside, that low grip is a less heat advantage.. that’s why I was surprised.
She caught it on cam too.
Hoping BRP addresses this, their tires are so good when things are working as they should.
I’m just glad she didnt spill and eat it after that
They’re much less unstable from a delamination then from a foam failure, and even then they degrade surprisingly manageably. (obvs, still can induce wobble at speed, or slide out in corner)
Plus, she’s really good. She’s a natural skater. Adapts to crap happening, and manages falls well.
My qualifiers at esk8con I rode a new old stock set that had sat for over a year and i desleeved a tire, I thought it was foam failure at first, and I just kept going because I didn’t want to blow qualifying. sleeve came completely off at the end. BRP kinda chalked it up to age and possible storage heat cycles. I was too busy at the time to push it further.
I wonder if RC guys, spinning these things faster than we are I would guess maybe, are having the same delam issues?
I mean those 1/4 RC cars are fast aren’t they?
Is it the weight difference maybe?
I really don’t wanna give up on BRP. Not dealing with tubes and air is so nice. Especially on race day. Changing a tire right before a heat because of a flat can be so stressful.
How do we find out the magic foam mixture and pour it into a super nova lol.