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Title: RM125 go cart. There are worse ways to die.
Post by: Monsterlover on December 27, 2018, 12:36:50 PM
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YOgNBn9edg8
Title: Re: RM125 go cart. There are worse ways to die.
Post by: Speedbag on December 27, 2018, 12:51:54 PM
Giggity.

Reminds me of a contraption a buddy built years ago and almost died piloting. Ported and polished Yamaha GPX 338 snowmobile engine with zoomie header, slapped onto a kart frame.

On its inaugural voyage on a deserted country blacktop, he took off. At a fairly high rate of speed the thing came into its powerband hard and wheelied, then blew over like you see on top fuel dragster footage. Luckily he was wearing a helmet (shocking, given our ages at the time) or he'd probably be dead, he had severe road rash from shoulder to wrist and got to wear long sleeve shirts for a good part of that summer.

It came apart and got squirreled away into the rafters after that, and there were no more suicide karts afterward.....
Title: Re: RM125 go cart. There are worse ways to die.
Post by: Monsterlover on December 27, 2018, 12:53:13 PM
Some things have to be learned the hard way [laugh]
Title: Re: RM125 go cart. There are worse ways to die.
Post by: Speedbag on December 27, 2018, 01:01:23 PM
Yep.  [laugh]
Title: Re: RM125 go cart. There are worse ways to die.
Post by: Speeddog on December 28, 2018, 12:36:23 PM
Poor guy, building it from scratch and piloting it for the video at great personal risk.

Everyone that watches the video only sees the dog.  [laugh]  [bang]