Thread: Go-cart "for the kids"

Cool mate. Dad got his mate to build one for us kids - think I was about 11 when we got it for xmas. It was a bit bigger though. Was on wide quad bike tyres, about 5-6 inches off the ground and 1.8 metres wide. Full roll cage - which was never required. It had a 600cc Suzuki road bike motor in it, 5 speed box, clutch etc. Brakes were average but it'd spin on the spot if you needed to stop in a hurry. He put a Recaro bucket seat and harness in it to strap us in. The thing was good for 140km'h, which was pretty fast on the beach, in bumpy paddocks etc, we rarely got top speed out of it. I eventually blew the motor up, and he replaced it with a xr250 motor which was a bit more tame, and fitted disc brakes that worked. We sold it for $750 when we "out grew" it. Now I wish we never did, to buy something like that now - $1500-2000 easy. Man we had some fun in it, his idea was that it'd get the "hooning" out of our system before we got cars...