Now this is a good racer

Started by Klackamas, August 18, 2018, 10:01:26 PM

Klackamas

Tough times breed strong people; Strong people create good times; Good times breed weak people; Weak people create tough times.

r0tor

As sweet as shifter karts are, the gearing is fairly pointless... it's either continually in the wrong gear or not having a hand on the wheel

Single speed or two speed with a clutch (not centrifugal) would be sweet IMO
2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee No Speed -- 2004 Mazda RX8 6 speed -- 2018 Alfa Romeo Giulia All Speed

MX793

Quote from: r0tor on August 19, 2018, 12:42:13 PM
As sweet as shifter karts are, the gearing is fairly pointless... it's either continually in the wrong gear or not having a hand on the wheel

Single speed or two speed with a clutch (not centrifugal) would be sweet IMO

A friend of mine runs one as his auto-x car.  He let me drive it once.  Those motors are so high strung that the powerband is only about 1500 RPM wide, which isn't much when you're talking about a motor that revs to 14000 RPM.  These things make roughly 50 hp from a 125cc 2-stroke.  For reference, a 250cc 2-stroke MX bike makes about 45 hp from the factory.

It was a hell of a handful on an auto-x course.  If you lift off the throttle, you need to downshift once.  Touch the brakes?  Plan on dropping 3 gears.  Between all of the steering between slaloms and gates and trying to keep it in the right gear, it's extremely taxing.  Plus they're just really twitchy and can snap into a spin in a heartbeat.

Oh, and no seatbelt, no suspension, and the seat is basically a fiberglass bucket with no padding.
Needs more Jiggawatts

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Klackamas

Tough times breed strong people; Strong people create good times; Good times breed weak people; Weak people create tough times.