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Fritz The Cat
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« on: November 22, 2011, 10:52:14 AM »

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klb
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« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2011, 11:40:06 AM »

A big fart would be like hitting the nitrous switch !!!!
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aslondon
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« Reply #2 on: November 22, 2011, 01:37:35 PM »

Some people have WAY too much time on their hands! Cool

Al
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98valk
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« Reply #3 on: November 22, 2011, 04:10:00 PM »

all go NO STOP. there is no front brake and probably just a tire scrub brake.
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1973 Duster 340 4-speed rare A/C, 2001 F250 4x4 7.3L, 6sp

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BonS
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« Reply #4 on: November 22, 2011, 09:08:01 PM »

all go NO STOP. there is no front brake and probably just a tire scrub brake.
I see a hydraulic master cylinder on the right hand brake - that's a good sign.

Now about that seat . . . Shocked

Needs a wheelie bar for sure!
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CajunRider
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« Reply #5 on: November 22, 2011, 11:20:26 PM »

Ever saw the GSXR-Kart??  (Maybe labeled gixxer-kart... I don't remember)

Yeah... someone strapped a Suzuki GSXR engine to a Go-Kart...

180 mph on the straights (race track) and still spinning the tires!!  The tires lasted 2 laps and blew out... made for one impressive spin out at about 80 mph!!! 
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98valk
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« Reply #6 on: November 23, 2011, 08:13:15 AM »

all go NO STOP. there is no front brake and probably just a tire scrub brake.
I see a hydraulic master cylinder on the right hand brake - that's a good sign.

Now about that seat . . . Shocked

Needs a wheelie bar for sure!

good catch I didn't even see that.

looks like a wide golf cart tire on the back.
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1998 Std/Tourer, 2007 DR200SE, 1981 CB900C  10speed
1973 Duster 340 4-speed rare A/C, 2001 F250 4x4 7.3L, 6sp

"Our Constitution was made only for a Moral and Religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the goverment of any other."
John Adams 10/11/1798
FryeVRCCDS0067
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« Reply #7 on: November 24, 2011, 05:30:25 PM »

That's cool.

When I was a kid a local used to bring a Rupp mini-bike with a Hodaka super rat motor to the local "hill climb" area. The toughest hill there was called the wall, it started just 30 feet or so from a strip pit so there wasn't much room for a run at it. The hill/spill bank was at least 75 yards tall and too steep to walk up. Even the better riders usually crashed 1 out of 3 tries.

I saw the Rupp with the Hodaka motor make it a time or two although it usually spun out and and came  back down separately from the rider. The mine closed off that area and bulldozed it after some people died in a jeep there. Sad

Until then, many riders and spectators spent their weekends there. It was way off the beaten path and involved a lot of setting on hoods, beer drinking, crashes and insanity.

Alas, it was long before the age of lawsuits.
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