Dear Sirs, Please don't let this forum die

[student👍]

Most youth, I'll wager, only have experience with pixel karts a la Mario Kart. Why get on a noisy, smelly kart when you can effortlessly race pixel karts in an endless game, with thrills and spills and multiplayers? Multiplayers in in-real-life karting is quite the proposition unless they go to a fun park but we're not about concession karts here, put private ownership.

lol idk if you have actually tried to play mario kart but it is NOWHERE near the experience of a real kart, i talk to my friends about my kart nd they all relaly like it nd want to ride it, but people seem to think they r super expensive for some reason

 

[student👍]

I see what you mean. Nowadays, parents are helicopter parents and modern kids see "way too much of them" because they're inside all the time, even though most parents both work.

It'd be like, no TV, no internet (except for school), no PORN!, no hell phones until they're 18 but I'd supply bicycles, mini bikes, go karts, dirt bikes maybe, just so they'll learn some mechanical skills have fun, stay out of the house and not turn into a electronic screen zombie.

i think parents started babying hteir kids bodies, afraid they would get kidnapped or smth if thery went outside alone or that they would hurt themselves in a go kart, or something like that, when they should have been worried about mentally frying them with screens, and removing any creativity for life.

 

[student👍]

I never had a cell phone until I left home for college. It seems now a days kids learn to use phones before they can talk.

i didnt get mine till i came to college either, not all parents are lost

 

[Master Hack]

Damn youngn's! I been haulin one of them 'effen cell phooe things around since 1987. My biz needed a new pickup, so we got a new chebby silverado 3/4 ton ($16,xxx.xx) with a phone (mounted on the trans hump $3500) phone service was $35/ month + $0.35/ min. All it did was make phone calls. That was alotta money back then.
Now git off my lawn! Damn kids!

 

[panchothedog]

Damn youngn's! I been haulin one of them 'effen cell phooe things around since 1987. My biz needed a new pickup, so we got a new chebby silverado 3/4 ton ($16,xxx.xx) with a phone (mounted on the trans hump $3500) phone service was $35/ month + $0.35/ min. All it did was make phone calls. That was alotta money back then.
Now git off my lawn! Damn kids!

Being in the home building industry, I got mine about the same time. Mounted on the dash board. You could set it so instead ringing, it would honk the horn repeatedly when you were in the field. That came right after pagers and using pay phones. Modern Man, modern.

 

[panchothedog]

Back to the other subject of how much kids have changed over the last generation or two. Look at how motor sports competition has dwindled. Both in participation and even more so in attendance. Kids ( especially boys ) just aren't interested in cars like they used to be. I read where substantial percent of them don't even get their drivers license until they are much older. I got mine the day that I turned 16. Like E Z said in post # 14. How can you compare playing a screen game to the real thing. It's like comparing watching an X rated movie to actually getting some. It ain't the same thing.

 

[SLM]

Damn youngn's! I been haulin one of them 'effen cell phooe things around since 1987. My biz needed a new pickup, so we got a new chebby silverado 3/4 ton ($16,xxx.xx) with a phone (mounted on the trans hump $3500) phone service was $35/ month + $0.35/ min. All it did was make phone calls. That was alotta money back then.
Now git off my lawn! Damn kids!

they had phones back then? damn

 

[bob58o]

Basic maintenance stuff should be mandatory in schools. I got to take a part my cheap Fire TV and replace LEDs or power boards or sumthing. I know there’s probably videos on how to do it, but everybody should learn to take things apart in school so they gain a familiarity.

New Home Ec should have TV repair, house wiring, toilet wax ring installation, tire changing, oil changing…

 

[SLM]

true true, to be honest that would be more usefull thaan some things we learn

 

[ezcome-ezgo]

"Children, today we are going to disassemble our desks, label and organize all the parts. Tomorrow we will reassemble. Anyone who can reassemble their desk in less than 10 minutes gets an A."

 

[Kartorbust]

When I was in high school from 2007-2011, I took basic electronics class learned how to solder, learned Ohm's Law, had Recreational Engines class, took woodshop, had a home repair class, had two welding classes, did automotive repair, machine shop. Had a lot of fun in those classes.

I never had a go kart growing up. Dad was fine, but my mom always said no. My dad and I were supposed to build one when I was like 10, but I didn't know about Forums back then. Only thing I had was the How to build a Go Kart book from Northern Hydraullics (carbon dating myself with that one, they renamed to Northern Tool and Equipment) and we just never really set the time aside to build a kart.

I think in some ways, YouTube is kind of making them way more popular. We're long past the golden age of go karts, but it is having a Renaissance.

 

[ezcome-ezgo]

And we can thank the Chinese for flooding our shores with cheap small engines that simulate reliable Japanese standards.

 

[Edwin Spangler]

And we can thank the Chinese for flooding our shores with cheap small engines that simulate reliable Japanese standards.

I blame the consumers...................

 

[bob58o]

“intro to tech” and “energy and power” along with woodshop and a CAD class were my shop classes back in HS. Graduated 2001

 

[Kartorbust]

I took CAD as a fine arts class. Fortunately my Welding and Fabrication class was 2 periods and worth 2 fine arts credits, so got my 3 fine arts credits easily.

 

[Master Hack]

I took drafting, we used real mechanical pencils and vellum.
Even had a job drafting for a while.

 

[Denny]

I had 4 years of drafting in 3 years and 2 years of auto shop. Graduated high school, got my diploma on Sunday and started at the Buick dealership on Monday.

 

[ezcome-ezgo]

So began the demise of Buick.

 

[Master Hack]

Doesn't look like things are getting much better @ GM.

GM recalls nearly 600K SUVs, pickups over engine failures

Over the past several years, the automaker identified more than 28,000 field complaints and incidents in the U.S. market potentially related to 6.2L V8 engine issues.

www.automotivedive.com

 

[Kartorbust]

Yeah that's a lot of 6.2L engines affected. They are going to be building a 6th gen V8 assembly plant in New York state apparently. New engines should be starting production sometime in 2027.