Hey Arigato, do you have any complaints about the eight cup turbo paddle? You know, to be honest with you I think there is a lot of myth involved in the paddle tire department. It could be that paddle tires with more cups weigh more and are harder to turn giving the feeling of more traction, like adding weight to your flywheel. The last time I went to the dunes there was this guy with a cr500 that had so many cups you could not add another one, he had an extended swingarm, you could see he had a bunch of money in this thing but It was the slowest cr500 I had raced In awhile. I felt bad for him, if I had something that looked like that and I got my ass handed to me by a 100+feet by something with a stock wheel base and a 8 cup I would take It home and burn it. I think I would rather have a well designed paddle, rather then one that just had a bunch of cups glued on it. I think It's kind of like throwing money at a problem to fix it.