Young One With A Manco
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Hi all,
I joined about a week back, but never professionally introduced myself, so here it goes!
First of all, I've been here for just 6 days, but already love it. The strong sense of community, and family while still helping, is amazing. It's like having that know it all uncle who actually knows all...
I'm 14 and from CT. My whole family is very into cars, and I've grown up working on/around cars my whole life! However, I've never been aloud to get anything motorized until now! A couple months back I traded a non running 1968 AMF Homko ride on mower for a mini bike that was running. The mower was actually pretty sweet, 7hp B&S Easy spin motor on a mini mower that weighed all of 100lbs at most. The only reason I was even aloud to trade was that the mini bike was "easier to throw out"... and it was supposed to be slow with the 3hp. The mower was manual (R,1,2,3) and my dad use to let out the clutch to fast (purposely) so he could wheelie it. Some good times on that thing... Annnyyyway, It needed an ignition coil because the mice got to it. I wasn't aloud to throw a dime at it even with my own money (Because, direct quote "That thing is a PIECE!!"). So Craigslist barter section it went. Some guy made a 3hp B&S Mini bike for his son, which ended up being to big for the 7 year old. The minibike was a no name but was geared well, had a disc brake on the sprocket, and some really, really nice paint. I hit 28mph on that thing, and then ran out of room. It probably had 35mph in it. I wish I counted the teeth on the clutch and axle... It had no bog and went very fast. Parents said "I don't want you on two wheels! Too dangerous!!" I wish I could have that thing back but I wouldn't pay how much I got for it, even if I could lol. I think my parents felt bad (Just for the record I am not at all spoiled or anything close to that!), so they compromised and said I could have a Go Kart... I looked for about a month and this one wasn't even to my liking, but at the price it's at, I couldn't resist... and it's growing on me. Not a bad summer, I must say...
Pics below: First two pics are my go kart, Third is the lawn mower, Fourth is the Mini Bike
I joined about a week back, but never professionally introduced myself, so here it goes!
First of all, I've been here for just 6 days, but already love it. The strong sense of community, and family while still helping, is amazing. It's like having that know it all uncle who actually knows all...
I'm 14 and from CT. My whole family is very into cars, and I've grown up working on/around cars my whole life! However, I've never been aloud to get anything motorized until now! A couple months back I traded a non running 1968 AMF Homko ride on mower for a mini bike that was running. The mower was actually pretty sweet, 7hp B&S Easy spin motor on a mini mower that weighed all of 100lbs at most. The only reason I was even aloud to trade was that the mini bike was "easier to throw out"
... and it was supposed to be slow with the 3hp. The mower was manual (R,1,2,3) and my dad use to let out the clutch to fast (purposely) so he could wheelie it. Some good times on that thing... Annnyyyway, It needed an ignition coil because the mice got to it. I wasn't aloud to throw a dime at it even with my own money (Because, direct quote "That thing is a PIECE!!"). So Craigslist barter section it went. Some guy made a 3hp B&S Mini bike for his son, which ended up being to big for the 7 year old. The minibike was a no name but was geared well, had a disc brake on the sprocket, and some really, really nice paint. I hit 28mph on that thing, and then ran out of room. It probably had 35mph in it. I wish I counted the teeth on the clutch and axle... It had no bog and went very fast. Parents said "I don't want you on two wheels! Too dangerous!!" I wish I could have that thing back but I wouldn't pay how much I got for it, even if I could lol. I think my parents felt bad (Just for the record I am not at all spoiled or anything close to that!), so they compromised and said I could have a Go Kart... I looked for about a month and this one wasn't even to my liking, but at the price it's at, I couldn't resist... and it's growing on me. Not a bad summer, I must say...Pics below: First two pics are my go kart, Third is the lawn mower, Fourth is the Mini Bike
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. So, this is kind of a "for now" go kart that I have. And no, I will not be actually racing them.
To be honest, my grammar and all are pretty awful, I just spend a long time reading and rereading my posts to make sure they're not TO bad. I'm sure you could still find tons of grammar mistakes if you tried.