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Y'all ever see a go-cart with an engine on each wheel?
Posted on 2/17/21 at 4:16 pm
Posted on 2/17/21 at 4:16 pm
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Posted on 2/17/21 at 4:41 pm to finchmeister08
This right here is why I’ll be dead quickly if I win the lottery
Posted on 2/17/21 at 4:46 pm to finchmeister08
I had a 5hp and my cuzan had a 3.5 and we would race them suckers and flip the shite out of them. We always said we were going to save our grass cutting money and get another motor and mount it for a two motor cart!!!
Man good thing YouTube wasn’t around we would have went for 4
Man good thing YouTube wasn’t around we would have went for 4
Posted on 2/17/21 at 4:46 pm to finchmeister08
frickin rednecks. 
Posted on 2/17/21 at 5:45 pm to jdavid1
Back in the day -
I bought my kids a used early Honda Odyssey with the 250cc engine, roll cage and five point harness. That sucker was rolled so many times that it didn't know which way it was supposed to be.
Took it or a spin one time through the chopped corn stubble and when it flooded and died a quarter mile away, I did the usual fix for the flooding. Unscrew the slide valve and yank the rope to fire it up, then hit the kill switch.
Trouble was, the cornstalks had disonnected the kill switch wire underneath the engine. She took off like a bat out of heil with me trying to hang onto it and hit the kill again. Those knobbies ripped up my tee shirt and left me with a set of racing stripes on my belly, ribs and underarm that took a long and painful time to heal.
The Odyssey ripped off across the field, dove into the road ditch and went airborne. leaped clear across the road and slammed into the opposite ditch bank before springing backward and re- launching itself up the ditch bank and heading diagonally across the neighbor's standing bean field and directly toward their feedlot full of cattle.
Fortunately there was an old hogtite fence with two barb wires in between. The Odyssey dove through the fence but managed to get the broken bottom barb wire wrapped around it's left rear axle and that in turn caused it to turn in a half-circle and run into a tree in the fence line where it proceeded to bounce up and down running at full throttle (with no throttle valve) until I came up and pulled the plug wire. Had it not caught that wire it would have been in the feedyard in another 100 yards and all heill would have really have broken out.
I bought my kids a used early Honda Odyssey with the 250cc engine, roll cage and five point harness. That sucker was rolled so many times that it didn't know which way it was supposed to be.
Took it or a spin one time through the chopped corn stubble and when it flooded and died a quarter mile away, I did the usual fix for the flooding. Unscrew the slide valve and yank the rope to fire it up, then hit the kill switch.
Trouble was, the cornstalks had disonnected the kill switch wire underneath the engine. She took off like a bat out of heil with me trying to hang onto it and hit the kill again. Those knobbies ripped up my tee shirt and left me with a set of racing stripes on my belly, ribs and underarm that took a long and painful time to heal.
The Odyssey ripped off across the field, dove into the road ditch and went airborne. leaped clear across the road and slammed into the opposite ditch bank before springing backward and re- launching itself up the ditch bank and heading diagonally across the neighbor's standing bean field and directly toward their feedlot full of cattle.
Fortunately there was an old hogtite fence with two barb wires in between. The Odyssey dove through the fence but managed to get the broken bottom barb wire wrapped around it's left rear axle and that in turn caused it to turn in a half-circle and run into a tree in the fence line where it proceeded to bounce up and down running at full throttle (with no throttle valve) until I came up and pulled the plug wire. Had it not caught that wire it would have been in the feedyard in another 100 yards and all heill would have really have broken out.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 5:53 pm to ImaObserver
We rigged up my cousins old go cart (1980’s). No roll cage just a brake, gas, steering wheel, seat, and motor.
We had to put the rear end up on cinder blokes to start it (pull rope) cause as soon as u cranked it the damn thing would go full throttle
You’d have to crank it, get on it, then shake it till it fell off the bricks. When you were done riding me dad had a piece of wire going from somewhere sticking up that we’d touch to something else that would kill the engine.
If was fun if more than one person was there but trying to crank it and ride with just you was an adventure
We had to put the rear end up on cinder blokes to start it (pull rope) cause as soon as u cranked it the damn thing would go full throttle
You’d have to crank it, get on it, then shake it till it fell off the bricks. When you were done riding me dad had a piece of wire going from somewhere sticking up that we’d touch to something else that would kill the engine.
If was fun if more than one person was there but trying to crank it and ride with just you was an adventure
Posted on 2/17/21 at 5:53 pm to ImaObserver
You were probably able to fix it right there and ride it back to the house though.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 6:16 pm to auggie
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You were probably able to fix it right there and ride it back to the house though.
Yup, That I did, but a lot more slowly because I hurt like Heill and my side was a bloody mess.
Kids still tease me about it today when the subject of four wheelers etc. comes up.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 6:52 pm to ImaObserver
Posted on 2/17/21 at 6:55 pm to finchmeister08
Really good youtube channel if you are into small engines and doing stupid shite.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 7:22 pm to ImaObserver
That was an excellent story. Felt like I was there.
My children have a go cart. The two youngest girls (9&11) ride it a lot. No brakes, throttle sticks, gotta be ready to drive when you start it (pull start) and hit kill switch to stop. I’m pretty proud one of them will start it while the other sits in the drivers seat, then the driver will make a loop and come back and pick up the one who started it, with an in-motion entrance to the passenger seat required.
My children have a go cart. The two youngest girls (9&11) ride it a lot. No brakes, throttle sticks, gotta be ready to drive when you start it (pull start) and hit kill switch to stop. I’m pretty proud one of them will start it while the other sits in the drivers seat, then the driver will make a loop and come back and pick up the one who started it, with an in-motion entrance to the passenger seat required.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 8:32 pm to finchmeister08
My old 3.5 Tecumseh could out run that pos!
Posted on 2/17/21 at 8:42 pm to finchmeister08
I'd be covered in burns if I got anywhere near that thing
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