YOUNG GUNS...
A quick chat with high school National Rider Chad Arnold

To Quote from our Racing roundup for this month:

“ Fearless and talented quad MX racers and breathtaking close-racing action thrilled the horde of spectators at the first round of the 2008 national Quad MX challenge at the Zone 7 motor cross track outside Melkbos in the Cape.” “In the high school class, Chad Arnold Autologistix Racing KTM) scored the first national victory for the new KTM450 quad in SA when he won the first 10 minute heat while a third place in the second heat resulted in a overall victory for the day.”

We have known Chad for a while now-in fact looking back, he helped us with a few tests and ride reviews when he was a nipper in the days of “Super Quad”. When we heard that he was doing so well in the racing, we decided to track him down and ask him a few questions about his racing and what he has been up to. It is fantastic to see the young riders coming through like this and to see a company like Autologistix backing these youngsters is even better…

Batt Limited – Executive Director Bruce de Kock with Taizhou Taiyangfeng Rubber Co.,Ltd - Chief Executive Officer Chen GuoZhong and Chief Engineer Zhang JianYa at the Taizhou Taiyangfeng Rubber factory in China.

The factory was awarded the engineering and production contract in June 2007 to produce the BATT range of Quad and ATV tyres for Batt Holdings S.A. a division of the Batt Limited.

The contract is said to be worth USD$2.5 million over the next 5 years for the factory with BATT’s envisaged global expansion into Europe, Eastern Europe, United Kingdom, the United States and the rest of Africa.

Bruce de Kock says that after extensive research into tyre manufacturing in China, Taizhou Taiyangfeng Rubber Co.,Ltd was selected as they have an annual production turnover in excess of USD$8.5 million dollars and have very advanced in house technical engineering, mould production and compound research and development laboratories.