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I'll be buying copies of these.

 

looks like it's scraping the nose in the first pic, too..

 

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it is.

the kart had to run 5" tyres due to a shortage on 6".

the side pods and the front nose cone dragged across the entire course.

 

those karts definatly have some grippy tires, try jamming your finger nail into one after a couple runs and you might not get it back. And I dont think lifting a drive wheel matters so much when you have a solid axle.

 

Lifting the inside rear tire actually frees a kart up, turning it in more quickly. It counters the inherent understeer of the solid rear axle (and lack of differential effect).

We bought US-made knock-offs of an Italian design (Tony I think) and they worked pretty good the first year. The second year and beyond they became dogs and were slower even with blueprinted KT100s replacing the box-stock** versions. Problem was that the tubing appeared to be stressing past its yield point, softening up the chassis. They were awful - inconsistent, snap oversteering...yuck.

Kirk

** Interesting point: When you buy an "stock" Yamaha from one of the big retailers, you will discover that it has already been unboxed - and might even have been disassembled. They cherry pick the best of the crop from their stock, to turn into their higher-doller blueprinted versions.