go kart country

[ironman]

well thought it be great to have my sons birthday at kart country.i mean you got games, food, putt putt and the largest go kart track there is 1 1/2 mile long sounds great right.

not................. you would think with 9 h.p. honda motors these things would fly. we must have been doing like a max of 25 mph.i mean my slowest kart at home goes faster than these.my son was like dang dad these are slow lets get our karts and bring them up here and have some real fun. a course they said no. 5.00 a ride isnt cheap .

but at least you could drift with them. that is if you could see from all the rubber coming off the tires. would be fun for people who have never rode a kart but for my peeps and family we give it a big thumbs down!!!!!
have any one else been to a local track and felt this way too.

 

[newrider3]

Yeah, they always put some kind of electronic governor on concession karts. You can always see the employees switch 'em off when they move the karts. Sometimes you can get lucky and find a kart that is governed higher, that's what happened the last time I rode one, smoked everyone.

 

[kibble]

Yeah, we have a place in town called "Golf 'n Stuff" where they have karts. That was the very first place where I got to ride a kart and I wanted one after that! Going back now, they seem like trying to coast uphill on a molasses covered wagon without wheels. I had never ridden anything faster than that, so when I got mine done I was tripping out at the speed!

 

[AutoMX]

lol i always see that place by the 101 but i never stopped by. AFAIK theres http://www.jimhallkartracing.com/ near you, long ago i called them up and asked about taking a custom made kart on there, they aid i could rent the track for about $40 a day when nothing is scheduled.

 

[redcali]

how long is a ride


the gokarts here are $1 per minute.
speeds of 25-30 km/h

 

[kibble]

lol i always see that place by the 101 but i never stopped by. AFAIK theres http://www.jimhallkartracing.com/ near you, long ago i called them up and asked about taking a custom made kart on there, they aid i could rent the track for about $40 a day when nothing is scheduled.

Hey, I was wondering about that. I remember seeing a track somewhere and I am familiar with that name. I'm gonna have to look into that!

@redcali,

where I'm at, you buy a ticket for like $5 and then you go on it and they let you ride for a certain amount of time and then they divert you to go back to the starting point.

 

[adriang]

i lapped all the people there because one of the employee's didn't know one of the electric governors was shorted out.

 

[Aryukei]

well thought it be great to have my sons birthday at kart country.i mean you got games, food, putt putt and the largest go kart track there is 1 1/2 mile long sounds great right.

not................. you would think with 9 h.p. honda motors these things would fly. we must have been doing like a max of 25 mph.i mean my slowest kart at home goes faster than these.my son was like dang dad these are slow lets get our karts and bring them up here and have some real fun. a course they said no. 5.00 a ride isnt cheap .

but at least you could drift with them. that is if you could see from all the rubber coming off the tires. would be fun for people who have never rode a kart but for my peeps and family we give it a big thumbs down!!!!!
have any one else been to a local track and felt this way too.

Rofl yeah. It's friggin' horrile I swear. Their karts do 15Mph..XD

 

[2or3wheels]

They suck, i went to "procart indoors" go like 40 with a T/C like clutch set up, was running 25 second laps on a track about a 1/4 mile(guessing length).

 

[go kart mozart]

we got this place in boston called F1 boston. its indor electric karts that do like 50mph. but its like $30 for 4 laps.
and if u skid or bump or ne thing they kik u out. they has tournaments and stuff. u have to wear a full race suit with neck rest. and the hole nine yards MAD strict tho.

I gives it a thumbs down

 

[jr dragster T]

^Same here. We did that when we where in Las Vegas, Nevada Those things would smoke the tires anytime.

 

[Justin]

they have a kart track in charleston wv too... it has a indoor slick track. they put ungovenored 5hp hondas on their karts... its a very short track but most of the time your mad drifting and burnin out... its pretty sweet... 7 min turns for $4 pretty good imo.

 

[trails]

around my place we have Gator Golf. which everyone around considers fun because of the gokart track. Not many people in my area are big into karting, a couple of my buds have karts the run 5hp and 6.5 motors but the gokarts at gator golf look identical to pro shifter karts and look really fast. they run engines that look to be somewhere in the range of 100 to 150cc but top out around 15 or 20 mph! ridiculous. you ride for 5 minutes and pay like 6 to 7 bux. ill stick with my trails!

 

[Jerryburger]

...too bad there isn't a road course where you can "Run What You Brung" around it. The closest we came was a Golf Course at Johnson Ranch, behind our house. It was a twisting cement cart path about 8' wide that went through the hills, etc for a total length of about 3 miles. My son and I used to buzz around this at night (after closing) on the LowRider and the Blue Stand-Up trike. Then they posted security people, but we could easily outrun them (they were chasing us in golf carts). Pretty soon, through the process of elimination, they figured out where we lived. Ooops.
Then we did laps around Anthony's school! Lots of fun.

 

[r_chez_08]

Rofl yeah. It's friggin' horrile I swear. Their karts do 15Mph..XD

all the karting places here, the 16yr olds+cart is 70mph (400cc)
and the one lower does 35mph
mind u its about £10 for 10mins!!!