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I'm building a kart with rear simple rear suspension, but cannot decide where to put the engine. Info - its based around a 250 6speed bike engine and will be only used off road. I can either: Mount the engine on the frame and try to line up the pivot point with the centre of the output...

I'm building a fairly sizeable kart with a 250cc 6 speed manual bike engine. It will have independent suspension up front and either solid or partly sprung rear end. I want to make this kart wide and low however I'm struggling to find a rear axle wide enough. I'm after a 30mm axle thats at...

I'm going to be building a kart over the summer and am currently sourcing all the parts. I've found an axle and hubs and am now on the hunt for rear wheels. I want to use a set of wide knobbly quad wheels however the problem is my hubs are 4" Pcd and nearly all wheels are 4" 1/2 or 110mm pcd...

Hi, I've just built a minibike, it currently has no brakes and could do with one. Its a 5.5hp with a 12 to 1 to give it heaps of power for towing mountain bikes and stuff. It works really well at the mo but would be great to have some stopping power. It doesnt need anything too fancy. I am...

Hi I was wondering whether anyone has ever used a manual motorbike clutch, or anyother sort of manual clutch on either a go kart or a mini bike? I've nackered one cheapish centrifugal clutch and dont want to spend big bucks on a torqe converter. thanks for any help. bill

Hi, ive recently built a minibike from scratch (photos comming soon). Its got a 5.5hp engine and a 12:72 ratio on it, the clutch im using atm is a max torque stanard centrifugal clutch. The only problem is its just suddenly started slipping loads. Ive stopped using the bike because of it. Ive...