GT4Brody
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Had a go on my mates rotax max 125 the other day at a track in sittingbourne, was awesome 0-60 in 2.5 secs...top spped of 90 ish, and arse is about and inch off the floor!!
just wondering if anyone has any tips or advice when buying a go kart (prob be used)
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Ry_B
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Location: Solihull, W Mids Drives: 45BHP beast!
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Karts feel so fast because you're so close to the ground...although obviously I'm not doubting they are fast!
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GT4Brody
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Originally posted by Ry_B
Karts feel so fast because you're so close to the ground...although obviously I'm not doubting they are fast!
yeah, but thats half the fun, is a cheap form of motorsport, and that is no exageration 0-60 time as its basicly a tuned 125 motorcross engine...
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Ry_B
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My mates into it, his engine gets rebuilt every few races and I know it isn't cheap, fastest kart I drove was a 50cc one and that was quite rapid
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Brett
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I've been to Three Sisters in Wigan a few times and raced the twin-engined karts. Was good fun do 720 degree spins in the wet 
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Tom
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Mates (brothers) are looking at getting back into it properely doing nationals. Decent 2 yr old rotax your looking at a grand then you need trailor or van etc. They both used to race in nationals at school and were pretty good. Never had a go of a rotax had a go of a few though and fuck me they're quick
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Tom
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Originally posted by loafofbrett
I've been to Three Sisters in Wigan a few times and raced the twin-engined karts. Was good fun do 720 degree spins in the wet
Was up there end of last summer, went out in cockermouth 
Tis a decent track that now, never got a go tho 
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Brett
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Originally posted by Tom
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Originally posted by loafofbrett
I've been to Three Sisters in Wigan a few times and raced the twin-engined karts. Was good fun do 720 degree spins in the wet
Was up there end of last summer, went out in cockermouth
Tis a decent track that now, never got a go tho
There was a guy goin round it in a Porsche 911 when I went once. Now that looked ace 
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Tom
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Tis a tight track aswell 
Seen moped racing there.
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GT4Brody
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Originally posted by Tom
Mates (brothers) are looking at getting back into it properely doing nationals. Decent 2 yr old rotax your looking at a grand then you need trailor or van etc. They both used to race in nationals at school and were pretty good. Never had a go of a rotax had a go of a few though and fuck me they're quick
This is more or less what i was expecting after looking on the bay etc, gonna go with my mate once more, and decdie for definate then.
wont be competing or anything, well just be for track days..
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Brett
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Originally posted by Tom
Tis a tight track aswell
That's what I mean, lol
There was this 911 raggin it round this thin twisty track. Must've been the boss/owner or somethin 
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Tom
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Gotta be worth a bit of fun
Although if you aren't tied to rotax closed box regulations why not get an r1 engined one
Speak to jr or half pint seem to remember they knew about these
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Half Pint
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check for logbok on rotax, look for servicing records and intervals, find out when it was last rebuilt, does the engine have tags on? does it come with spares, what condition is the kart in, chassis and engine, you can generally tell when looking at them if they have had a hard life.
Rotax can be bought for £600 - £2000 so look about.
Sittingbourne is my fav track used to love endurance races there
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Half Pint
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i drive a: http://www.bizkarts.com/karts_race_jk1r_thunder_kart.html
look on http://www.karting.co.uk for more information and also karts for sale
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Corsa Sport Gav
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Location: Durham, County Durham Drives: A6 Allroad
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quote:
Originally posted by GT4Brody
Had a go on my mates rotax max 125 the other day at a track in sittingbourne, was awesome 0-60 in 2.5 secs...top spped of 90 ish, and arse is about and inch off the floor!!
just wondering if anyone has any tips or advice when buying a go kart (prob be used)
my gf's dads got one with the same engine and they are gr8 fun, had a go of his the other week
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jr
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Registered: 20th May 02
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buy my 100cc national Wright with a BME engine
its very erm fast 
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Half Pint
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you can't sell it James...
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Marc
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I went twin engine karting at the weekend
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Mase
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i went to three sisters a few weeks with me mate who races TKM extreme an it was ace. Didn't have a go on anything though, cos i hadn't got a racing licence....
Mase
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