03/26/2026
As we announced last night on James McCoy's YouTube stream, BSR is proud to announce the upcoming release of our own 1/8 17mm hex wheel. The current wheel that we have been purchasing from another manufacturer has been discontinued and no longer available to us. The old wheel has served us well, but with the ever increasing speeds and forces of RC racing, some its issues showed up. With our new wheel we took some suggestions from both the drag racing and speed run communities who wanted us to fix the hexes that would often strip due to the summer heat and stiffen the wheel a little so the wheel wouldn't egg under the high downforces. While we loved our super lightweight wheel, we did have to sacrifice a little weight in order to fix the flaws, but we think it was well worth it.
When we received the prototypes, we sent them over to James to test them for us. There is no other type of RC racing that puts a tire and wheel to the test than a speedrun. James took those tires with our new wheel and proceeded to break the RC Speed record with a speed of 238mph. Normally the wheel would be unusable after a run like that, but he spun the wheels up afterwards and they still spun true.These wheels truly are stronger and faster than the previous wheels we had.
We currently have no more of the old Losi wheels in the shop so all 1/8 wheels going forward will be on the new wheels. We will be offering them in Black and Yellow. Black will be available in April when we do our 1/8 run in a week or so. Yellow will not be available until May when our production shipment arrives. We have a small amount of yellow in house, but not enough to offer to dealers at the moment. We will have those available on our website.
We will be moving all the part numbers to the old wheels to Out of Production status and all new part numbers have been created for the new wheel. Dealers with orders on file will be contacted in the next week to see how they want to proceed. We will have all remaining inventory of old wheel tires on our website until they are gone. We plan to keep pricing the same, but we will evaluate that and will make adjustments when necessary.
BSR thanks you for all the support. We truly enjoy hearing all your successes using our products and we hope to see you in the winner's circle soon.