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Hay Thanks! see it works. I made a comment on the forums and comments were posted about my comments. I don’t know about the rest of yall, but I like reading new posts when I come here.
Being vocal, some like to call it bashing, is just a method of getting things tweaked. If we all voted with our feet instead of our mouth you wouldn’t have any idea of what to tweak.
Asking questions I think is what this forum is for. It benifits many people when questions are answered on here and only one person when questions are discussed with private phone calls.The biggest change from last year I have heard about is that Jr1 animals and Mod Briggs “might” be included in CSC once again. Does any one think I can count on that not working out like last year?
If I decide to run stock moto this year will stock ICC’s be allowed in the class next year?
If a novice125 runs as fast as the pro 125’s are they not as good as a pro?
Then if a pro runs slower than a novice are they really a pro?
Does the air spin in the tires? :loony:Shutting up and not talking about our sport of karting will yeild even less racers to race.
If we wanted to have a sick community in any sport, just post the schedual, the classes, and don’t post any rules to choose from and follow.
Then post free give aways for people if they sign up to follow the rules that aren’t there to follow. I am not bashing or ranting at my fellow karters. Only trying to decide what I can do with my hobby.
The more posts I can read, being good or bad, the easier it is for me to speculate upon which direction to go. Too much information to me is much better than no information.
I vote for more postings rather than fewer postings.
Mark, stupid question here, but what does IOW stand for?Nice discription Doug. As a briggs racer trying out the shifter stuff last year I found myself even with out a streering wheel in my hands a few times while I was trying to “go faster” threw the corners. I’ve had them Briggs karts on two tires plenty of times, but I didn’t really like being on one front tire when my rookie left foot late breaking would knock the wheel out of my hand while down shifting.
At one time I thought the talk of front brakes for Tags was more directed towards heavy only classes?
Good Luck, have fun and don’t be burning your bridges behind ya.
A lack of experience always makes the job cheaper and easier to do.
See ya at the races. 😉
The fewture is once again here, I am sitting here looking just like I have had to for 24 other years to choose the class of kart racing that may work for me. I can’t beleave we have a sign up sheet to the CSC with a signiture required to follow the rules yet no rules to follow.
Define the sport of karting.
Define what the grass roots of the sport are that we are promoting.
It just seems to me that we are too concerned with promoting where we race rather than promoting what we race.You might look into the method you are using to get a clean plug reading, or ditch reading your plug and read the piston more. The lean condition can be in most of your running rpms and your rich plug reading is just while performing your “clean cut off.”
A cool day is great for making power unless your jetting is still set for a warm race day and 100 octane may work fine untill you run into a cool day with better air.Thanks for posting some pic’s Craig. I did keep looking back and coasting through the corners, wondering when the others were going to start racing.
Rich, That’s my ufological cryo’ed pet kennel. It keeps my animals crap contained and cooled for post race excretion examinations.
I have a nieghbor that wreaked his 500 summit. I think I should convert it into a go kart.Well it was sort of fun, short, sweet, easy and cold, just like my sex life.
Thanks to Rockhead Team sports and my other sponsor’s, My Wife,
Mr. Billfold and Mr. Elboy Greese, I spanked all of the other dedicated karters in Colorado that particapated to more karting seen by the Motorsports enthusiast.
Once again I was dissapointed with my fellow Colorado karters not stepping up to the plate with an open oppertunity we had for the third year to show off karting side by side with our competing sport of bikes and quads. Seems like a lot of Colorado karters will always just be talkers about promoting the sport and blind to all the small ways of doing it.
OK maybe I’m not playing with a full deck, but it wouldn’t take much for us to get a full field of old or new karts ready to put on a once a year show that is all ready established, orginized and advertized and very cheep to participate in. I wouldn’t think that I am the only Colorado Karter in this #1 state of winter time activities with ideas of utilizing my weekly out dated investment in the sport for only a few months out of the year and setting back seat to the spot light our state has for winter time fun.
Doesn’t a road coarse naturally made every winter by mother nature make any sence to yall? Or do you need a red carpet to a $50,000 asphalt track before it’s fun for you? Maybe I am dreaming yet I see shifter’s, Tags, and a lot of the old karts setting in people’s garages on a pond having fun during our great Colorao winter’s.
Sorry for my babbleing, yet I hope some Mr. big bucks promoting karting will see the oppertunity this state has. I see a lighted pond near the bars of some busy ski resort with rentals and races, but maybe that’s why I am Mr. Little buck racing on thin ice.
Any one want to get togather in Rainbow Falls sometime? Evergreen Lake would be just right too, yet it would probably take $50,000 to bribe that community to allow having too much fun on thier pond. I really need to try out My Rock Team Sports sponsored $12.00 Carlisle snow hogs on my old shifter sometime before I build one of them 1100cc quads. :loony:Thanks Russ, I did get my kart to a pond and did a little practice. Man I don’t know if I am down on power, old fuel, or just spoiled from running that shifter last year. I don’t like it when you can flatfoot and not use any brakes.
Guess I’ll have to take off the summer of racing so I can build a real open 4 stroke for next winter. I hope I find a few more pony’s and rpm’s when I run it at the event center as it is 5,000 feet lower than my practice pond.
If anyone has a 97 tooth 35 chain sprocket bring it tonight. I could also use a gallon of none oil mixed nitro and a pint of propylene oxide.I would hope that a few more karters from around here get interested in having some winter time fun with karts on ice. It would be nice to have some local races. I would think with Colorado being the #1 winter vacation spot, there isn’t any reason karts on ice couldn’t be another attraction in places like Winter Park, George town or other vacation areas.
Hay JB, load up them rentals and head west for the winter?
Better than just an oval would be a road coarse. Any one have four 6″X6″ euro spaced rims so I can try out my shifter with these snow hogs?
I was really happy with the results of my $12 tires.yep it’s a speed secret, as it will speed up the process of making my chain longer when my rather large sprockets arrive.
I think it is odd. I would about think the oppisite would be true, as the baking of a chassis should about be part of finishing process of the welds which would envolve normalizing the entire chassis with heat. I don’t know. That said though a non normalized weld really should be more brittel. I wonder if manufacturers even go to the trouble of normalization? If they do whats the recipe and compaired to that whats the temp range used when baking powder coating? I have always thought it was around 400′ F.
I really dought it is the effects of heat from the blasting it’s self unless it’s blasted for extended periods of time with huge PSI.Hay Craig, Just thought I would post here about my tire sponsor gig. Whats up man, I got 4 tires all cooked and cooled, glued and screwed. But when I put them on my kart I found out I need a fifth tire for the Right rear.
I should be fast by time the 20th shows up, as I am getting pretty skinny from all my sponsor’s support.Pat, I am in no way trying to discurage your idea. If it’s a gun show, computer show, or an art show. Nobody just shows up. They show up after reading or seeing an add that there is a show that would interest them to go.
The problem with go-karts is the public doesn’t even know it has an intrest in them to provoke them to go to begin with.
I am sorry I miss understud the $ amount earlier 500 bucks for the hall ant bad. have you priced any advertizing?
JB’s spot is all ready well known by motor heads from years of advertizing and has a much better chance at having people interested in motorsports showing up.
There is an event on the 20th of this month that will have TV and paper adds running soon. These adds will gather over 5,000 motorsport fans to watch an evening of racing. It’s at the Budwiser event center in Loveland.
This is it’s third year of being there. There will be a full house once again. And once again we will be lucky to get 2 local kart racers to show in the show. This would be a great time to have a tag along swap and show in the afternoon, but hay we can’t even get our own racers to an event how are we going to get the public to come too?
