re: Do kids still ride go karts?

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It was a lot of money back then and if I remember correctly, the guy built them from scratch.

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Maybe they had a kit? My grandfather built us one that looked exactly like that. Funny enough, my younger brother did flip it and it caught on fire and that was finally the end of that one. But that was maybe 10 years after we got it because I was already driving by that point.

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We still have a go kart in the neighborhood but it’s mostly golf carts

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pretty much, still have 4 wheelers and go karts but mainly golf carts

Not in our neighborhood. I wish i lived in an area where my kids could enjoy one. I loved mine. My parents would never get me one, but I ended up winning a SHASTA go cart from our local grocery store raffle. It had a fiber glass car top on it. It was a single seater and a 8HP governed way down to like a 3. A friend and I took that shitty top off, built a seat for it, removed the governor/throttle thing. That go cart was f'n fast. Put some big tires on the back and we rode that thing everywhere around my house. Man those were good times.

Used to have a 3.5hp two seater. My uncle rigged up an accelerator cable that bypassed the governor, easily did 35 mph.

We used to build them as kids, some were pretty good. One was out of basically 2x4s and nails with a "borrowed" mower engine that was in the farm shed. We should have called it "Death Trap".

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That's a lot of bike for a 13 yo. Were your parents irresponsible

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I used to love riding go karts around the neighborhood growing up. All I see now are kids riding golf carts or four wheelers around the neighborhood.

In 8th grade I flipped a 2-seater. I don't recall the circumstances, I came-to face down with the go cart on top of me in a ditch and my friends pulling it off me. I was unscathed. Thank you Lord Jesus Christ.

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Nah. The boomers are the ones that let their kids play on go karts. And stay out until the lights came on. They did t give a frick. It’s the next generation that stopped it.

Hence the thread asking if they STILL ride go karts. Boomers were fine with it. The next generation pays for K1

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My wife and I are in our late 50s and have a 13 year old still at home (we had a neighbor who was really good looking the bastard...just kidding). We pretty much let her walk anywhere she wants to. The parents of her school mates are shocked and completely put off by this....they are convinced she is going to be sold into slavery any day now. She stays after school for band and student council 3 days a week and walks to a waffle house afterwards because they will not allow her to stay on school property and there is a 15 minute difference between when we can get there after work and when she gets finished. The school and other parents are absolutely terrified that she is going to be kidnapped. The distance is about 1/4 of a mile and the entire distance has sidewalks and is in front of a high school that is busy as hell with people at that time of day and cops eerywhere...but somehow a 13 year old who is about as street wise as a 13 year old can be in 2023 is in danger walking 1500 feet on a sidewalk in front of a high school....folks have lost their damned minds. What really pisses off the other parents is their kids asking to do the same thing LOL...the parents do not have a good reason for why they can't do it that does not sound as insane as it is...she now has 3-5 other kids doing the same thing. They walk together and they are about as safe as kids can be...but some parents are terrified that they are going to kidnapped any minute LOL...