Do kids still ride go karts?

I had a Thunder Cart as a kid. Some great memories cruising our neighborhood and cane fields with that thing

No. They graduated to golf carts in my neighborhood.

Get with the times, pops.

We lived in the country and my dad bushogged the neighbor’s property who had a scrap yard full of junk so the guy told him he could use whatever he wanted to build us a gocart.

He built us a 2 seater and we rode it for years. Back then in Stonewall we could ride it up and down Burford Road all we wanted.

I wish kids these days could enjoy a childhood like that.

Had a single seater. As it got older we had to jerry rig it.

Had to put the back in a cinder block to crank it cause as soon was it kicked over it took off. Had a bare wire to touch to the top of the spark plug to kill the engine.

Still at my parents but it’s in a pile of crap my dad hordes

Now it’s atv’s or side x sides

I bought a used riding mower from this country guy last year, and his probably 12-13 yo son came hauling arse around the corner on a go-kart. Probably going 55 at one point. They’d built it themselves.

So much of the shite I thought had gone extinct still exists in the country.

"I can already hear all the neighborhood boomers whining and calling the cops if my son had one"
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Not this Boomer. Grew up with gocarts and minibikes.

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and a dirt bike again.

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Now your tugging on the memories. Suzuki RM125 when I was 13. Damn, those were so much fun.

Back in my day we just rode… your mom.