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My other hobby

Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 6:48 pm
by Kart Racer
Maybe more expensive than saltwater fish.

Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 6:50 pm
by Kart Racer
Another

Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 7:16 pm
by Scott
I never would have guessed it :lol: . That's pretty cool. How fast to those things go? one of my teachers in vocational school raced carts. His son said they would go more than 60 mph.

Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 7:23 pm
by Kart Racer
It all depends on the size of the track as to how you can gear it. I would say anywhere from 40 mph on smaller tracks to 80-85 mph on the larger tracks. What did you study in vocational school?

Jeff

Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 8:33 pm
by Scott
Auto mechanics. I think that was the biggest waste of 18 months that I have ever seen.

Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 12:16 pm
by Kart Racer
Dont like auto mechanics? I went to southwest for refrigeration but all they did was residential so I had to learn alot of what I do now on the job. And with ammonia there isnt a lot of room for error.

Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 1:07 pm
by Scott
I went to Southwest too. I think I would have done better (i.e. made more $ in the long run) with something else. With 12 years experience it's now too hard to change now.

Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 3:54 pm
by Kart Racer
I wonder about that at times myself. But I did get to travel the southeast doing refrigeration work. Although some of the places really werent worth going to.

Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 8:42 am
by ShagMan
Karts on dirt?? I was under the stupid assumption that Karts were used for autocrossing... I always wanted to get on a good autocrossing track with a kart, looks fun! you running 125cc I assume?

Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 10:12 am
by Kart Racer
There isnt much asphalt racing around this area. Around here dirt is for racing and asphalt is for getting there. And no not 125cc, we run 5hp briggs. They do race 2-strokes but around here it is all 4 cycles.

Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 10:16 am
by ShagMan
oh, my bad! Those look almost identical to the 2 stroke shifter karts... the shifter karts are what I wanna drive, those things have gotta be FAST :)

Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 11:10 am
by Kart Racer
Yeah I would like to try those myself. But mostly shifter racing is out west. Everything we race is single speed and then track size and engine class determines how fast you go.