A little different - Motocross bike, go kart and 2 quads

[stabbed rat]

Just thought I would share a few pictures of my other "toys"

My go kart - I actually have 2 of them but one is out of action from a broken brake cable

Nice set of elevenses


Up close


The quads...These are the most dangerous of everything I own! I was racign my Dad one night and he cornered a little too hard and broke 2 ribs, his shoulder blade and his collar bone. I dont think i have used them since.


The fastest of them all: the motorbike, its a Honda CRF150R with a little bit of tweaking



Then there is my daily driver

[soad]

Go kart and bike, plus quads = epic fun fun fun

[stabbed rat]

Ooohhh yes! I was out on the go kart and bike earlier and thought I should share the fun

[y2blade]

great stuff

[stabbed rat]

Im really wanting to put an engine similar to the one from my bike into the go kart...5 speed and much more powerful

The kart could do with front suspension thought as it is prone to turning over under high speed cornering so I might give this a miss

[hbwold]

stabbed rat said:

Im really wanting to put an engine similar to the one from my bike into the go kart...5 speed and much more powerful

The kart could do with front suspension thought as it is prone to turning over under high speed cornering so I might give this a miss

Go for it! That would be great fun. I had a kart similar to yours but had no suspension, after 10 minutes you'd feel pretty sick and short of breath from getting bumped about so much. Great fun even with 5.5bhp!

Edited by hbwold on Sunday 9th January 22:41

[stabbed rat]

hbwold said:

stabbed rat said:

Im really wanting to put an engine similar to the one from my bike into the go kart...5 speed and much more powerful

The kart could do with front suspension thought as it is prone to turning over under high speed cornering so I might give this a miss

Go for it! That would be great fun. I had a kart similar to yours but had no suspension, after 10 minutes you'd feel pretty sick and short of breath from getting bumped about so much. Great fun even with 5.5bhp!

Edited by hbwold on Sunday 9th January 22:41

Mine is currently 9hp but has a centrifugal clutch so takes a bit of getting going, i think the biggest problem would be sourcing a decent reliable four stroke engine for not a lot of money.

I also think if I did manage to get hold of an engine it would go into a tarmac track kart. but then again I suppose being hold on by 4 bolts could mean it was interchangeable if I could find a way of having "clip on" or hook type throttle linkages (or even just simple to change over)...

Ohhhhh the power of dreaming!!

[stabbed rat]

A few new pictures and a video or 2 from today:








Yes, that is tri-podding the back right wheel














and a few videos (most of the same corner of the track):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kT5BmmBO9g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t4m4rXtBB4&fea...

trying a wheelie (I'm on the bike not the attempt on the underpowered quad )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdqNEjWgxiQ&fea...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h3X11yaSwM

Edited by stabbed rat on Sunday 17th April 01:57

Edited by stabbed rat on Tuesday 25th October 15:36

[wackojacko]

collection you have Ben...... hopefully add a track car to that soon

[stabbed rat]

Thanks mate, yeah hoping so something RWD and slidey!

[gareth.e]

looks like fun!

[skene]

I was going to say I thought the CRF150 was a bit underpowered, but fking hell! That's an impressive wheelie mate! Did one similar on my Pit-Bike and broke my arm

[stabbed rat]

skene said:

I was going to say I thought the CRF150 was a bit underpowered, but fking hell! That's an impressive wheelie mate! Did one similar on my Pit-Bike and broke my arm

Thanks

I have never felt it lacking power, it will wheelie in 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th with a push. It tops out around 70mph too. I hve only tested this by racing the cars on the road along the bottom of the field... It will tear past them and it's a NSL road where most drive at 70+ mph

[StudentMike]

stabbed rat said:

Im really wanting to put an engine similar to the one from my bike into the go kart...5 speed and much more powerful

The kart could do with front suspension thought as it is prone to turning over under high speed cornering so I might give this a miss

Kind of busy doing this myself - I'm just out of uni and whist i was there i was involved with something called 'formula student' - currently building my own unrestricted version of this type of car - on it's own thread 'custom build project - FS style car build' if you're interested.
Also, check out some of the university cars on youtube - search 'formula student eats supercar' they make an M5 look like a tractor and blitz an AMG. Mine's gonna weigh about 250kg and have over 100bhp. there's a shortcut to a fresh grave there if you look hard enough. . . . haha

Man's Driving machine.

[I Am Milk]

Ben, that Bentley in the background, not your aunts is it?...

[stabbed rat]

No, it's my dads... and no i'm not allowed to roll around on the bonnet

[stabbed rat]

A few new videos to add

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ6JMh2LIns

FAILED WHEELIE!

Only a small jump, I'm not allowed to dig big jumps into the field because of the gyroplane so have to make do with small and movable ones

[nickg123]

Was going to say you desperately need some jumps but fun all the same! At least you've got quads and a kart to play with, i can see it gets a bit boring when it's just one of you tearing around a field on your own...

Great fun though, I don't think people realise how quick an MX bike actually is until they ride one - I had a play on a mates Suzuki 250 4-Stroke and that was brutal, goes through the gears so quickly but you were carrying some speed in no time! Great fun!

[stabbed rat]

nickg123 said:

Was going to say you desperately need some jumps but fun all the same! At least you've got quads and a kart to play with, i can see it gets a bit boring when it's just one of you tearing around a field on your own...

Great fun though, I don't think people realise how quick an MX bike actually is until they ride one - I had a play on a mates Suzuki 250 4-Stroke and that was brutal, goes through the gears so quickly but you were carrying some speed in no time! Great fun!

Yeah it's great when we have all 5 vehicles out and blasting round the track. I have the itch to make bigger jumps at the moment... In fact, I have just had an idea so watch this space!

[Ben Jk]

Awesome. Nice riding mate.