ORIGINAL: Guidoracer
Unless you run your 1:18 cars on a 1:10 track, I think you'll find the Venom GPV-1 much too big. In fact, the smallest track we race our 1:5-scale bikes on is a 1:8-scale car track, but we usually run with the same program the 1:5-scale cars do. Bikes like to have a lot of room, as they don't turn like cars do. I ran the GPV-1 on a 1:10-touring car track in Camarillo, CA yesterday, and it was perfect. But once we start racing them, I expect we'll be needing a lot of turn marshalls.
Well we wont be driving it on our 1/18 scale track that one is way to small. We do have a very grippy 60 x 20 ft concrete patch to race on which is a bit small but I've driven the kyosho hang on racer 1/8 bike in the same size area with even less grip. The reason why we haven't raced them yet is we can't stand the designs of them. It looks like the rc manufactures who build the 1/8 scale ones have no idea how a real sport bike works. They usually have way to much rake on the front end and the entire front end rotates to steer which made the bike extremly slow at standing back up exiting corners on the throttle. Now venom has this one with adjustable rake, good steering linkage with a damper, and overall a good easy chassis to work on unlike the kyosho. Also the price tag and a very good stock radio make it hard not to buy.