I love karting....

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First time in a go-kart tonight and it was awesome!

I managed the fastest lap time but only managed second (i was robbed,i should have won) but in fairness the bloke who come first was a good driver.

https://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x13/fronterapics/karting/DSC00134.jpg

https://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x13/fronterapics/karting/DSC00133.jpg

We were told not to overtake if it meant knocking someone off the track,so i hung back behind the slower drivers until i could get a safe place,but while i was doing that the other bloke flew past hitting the slower driver and got away with it!

Even still it was great fun and credit where it's due he was the quickest driver on the day.

Cant wait until next week when i go back.

Just thought i'd share this as i'm still buzzing from it


(This was at Karting north east
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[cal91]

Its good ain't it

But sunderland? Why not middlesbrough, the track at middlesbrough is the 2nd biggest indoor track in europe.

As long as you dont support sunderland, its okay

Cal.
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[Steve-D]

Oh really??
I've got a reason to visit my grandparents now.

Karting is great fun, even if it is a rip off.
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Tristan The said 'Dunno what my pace will be like, fastish slow puncture on the rear and if I go too fast I risk my 'keys' falling out'

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[cal91]

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Well i'll be getting some practise in for now then.

It's only £40 quid at sunderland,which isn't all that bad really.(although i can see this getting quite expensive for me )
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[EddyJones]

I would be up for that as I live in boro, where is the indoor track thought?

Ive only been to teesside autodrome

[cal91]

[Graham88]

I love Karting, got right into it towards the end of last year until it was too slippy to be enjoyable. Gets expensive though at £50 a pop for half hour

[D O G]

That outdoor track at Warden Law is sweet, particularly like the bit where you go through the bus-stop chicane, then flat out round the long right hander before last minute braking into the right hairpin. Great stuff.

Indoor karting is shit in comparison - so little grip.

There is(was?) a fantastic outdoor track down in Smoggsville, which I went to once, but I have heard rumours that it may have closed. If not, get down there, it's top stuff.

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Everytime I go it makes me want to get my own kart and do some race meetings.

I came third by the way. They put my name down as Declon . Those times were at Rayleigh Karting. Qualified 6th and just stayed average and consistent. It's like £45 for 20 Practicse Laps, 15 Qualifying and 45 Race Laps. Isn't much for ~30 second laps.

[st3v3]

I'm a serious lover of Karting, we tried to organise it but everybody has to pull out for various reasons, and I didn't know when the BCF one was, when I could afford it I'd travel about to get invovled in a good session.
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[bEN_]

I wish they wouldn't use those shitty GX160 engines, but i suppose a 2 stroke would cost them more.
if you like it start doing it properly it's cheaper than you think depending on what class you enter into
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[Graham88]

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Oh look, Graham is above Luke

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[Method]

I absolutely love go karting.

I havent been in what feels like an eternity!

Normally pretty good, last time i went i had a realy hard race against my sisters boyfriend. Over an 80 lap race the gap between 2nd place and 3rd place was 6 laps.

The difference between me and him, 1st and 2nd, was 8 seconds!

That was a seriously fun few hours!

Would love to do it again, but its so expensive.

We've just had a local one open up here, so it means i dont have to do a 80 mile ish round trip any more, but its still £1 a minute.

To me, thats a lota cash.
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[EddyJones]

I went to the one at southbank a couple of months back for someones birthday, was a really good day out and they have a larger tracks for bikes and cars lol!

Cal 91- I thought the same! Me and m_hill are both from acklam and always do the whitby run on a thurs in the summer if you fancy coming along? What do you ride?

[Blue_SV650S]

To be fair, you can get low-end 2nd hand 2-stroke DD (direct drive) kart for ~£250 ... at the tracks I go to (outdoor) its £30/day ...

Karting is so popular it is 'sessioned' so its not like you get a full 8rs or anything!! But £/min has to be at least double with hire karts ... so you don't have to go too many times before you get your initial outlay covered .. (and its still worth £250 to sell!!)


Also the power to weight is far greater on the 2-stokes, so they are more exhilarating ... with the correct gearing, they are good for ~80mph (with your 4ss quite literally scraping on the floor!!) ... I doubt the indoor ones do more than 30mph????

Here's a vid on my old kart ... it cost me £240

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLUHo_2RnR8&fmt=18

I've got a 2nd one now, same idea, just a bit newer and 'better' chassis .. kept this one too and take it as a 'spare' in case the new one has a problem

Seriously if you love karting, you need to consider getting an aircooled 100cc DD kart ....

If you have a larger budget, a 125cc liquid cooled Rotax Max is the way forward ... low end 2nd hand are ~£1k though!!
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if you can afford it, a 125cc/250cc kart with gears is what you want

i won a few championships in the 100cc's and 2nd last year in a lincolnshire championship, i would've won but the gear linkage broke on a race i was leading.


if you're interested in those, check out one of the gearbox kart races
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKbkKsN7L2U&feature=related

i'm no.2
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Damn.

Just checked the lap records on their website and the best is 59.33!!
Surely that cant be on the same karts we were using?.

I would consider buying my own kart,but i tend to go through phases like this and move onto something else within a few weeks so i'll wait until i know i want to keep at it.
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[cal91]