re: Do kids still ride go karts?

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Back in the day.....We built our own. Somebody in the neighborhood was an auto mechanic and that's how you learned your basic mechanic skills.

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We started off building coaster cars...basically some configuration of 4 wheels and something to sit or lay down on and go down a hill. We sometimes tried to make steering mechanisms but strangely enough I never remember being concerned about brakes. Many's the time I have zoomed down a steep hill laying face down on a 2x4 with 4 wheels attached to it....it was a blast even when you stopped by hitting something which is how you stopped every time.


We moved on to trying to fly out of barns and off rooftops and hills with various forms of "wings" most of which consisted of a piece of plywood we would attach to our bodies somehow. We never flew far but man did we ever have some spectacular landings....

When we figrued out a horizontal shaft engine man forget about it...we could find a way to make one drive a wheel on just about anything. We never paid much attention to steering and paid no attention to braking but going forward at an incredible rate of speed considering what we were riding??? Ain't no engineer in Detroit had anything on us....

I will gurantee you no one under the age of 18 as we speak has ever cut the forks off one bicycle and drove them on the forks of another and made themselves a chopper. I would almost bet no one under 35 has ever done it...

We has a similar one growing up. Was a one wheel drive

We rode that thing for days. Unfortunately someone stole ours.

Ya'll are a bunch of puzzies.

THIS is what a real man rode as a kid:




Kelly Leak level shite....

4 wheelers > Go Carts

Always wanted a Honda Odyssey when I was a kid

Not being a smartass but just do a Google search it should find them in your area.

I am not personally into it and I don't have a big friend circle at all and I know 3 dads that make this a hobby for their sons.