Brian S's Journal

Here in the States, we refer to the 'Boot'as the 'Trunk'. Your kart brings back theoriginal meaning quite vividly Brian. Looks like a fun cruiser. Hope you canfind some nice back roads. Now don'tforget to wear your 'duster' and goggles.Denny GrahamSandwich, IL

She looks great, Mike!What kind of gear ratios have you used?I'm so interested to hear how you guys make out on the wild frontier!

Oh, sorry. I should have read back. 6:1 gears. I think if I did one for this purpose I would gear it really low. I learnt my lesson on that Tieton hillclimb. Had my opponent by 3 or 4 lengths until it got steep. Then had to watch him go plodding past to win!

Brian here Dave. Thanks for your comments. I Live on the side of a hill with some quite steep roads around so i had a mate sit beside me to see just how she would go up the hills. With the two of us aboard she seemed to climb, no trouble at all. With the right gearing these little motors are quite torquey .. Ps. Mike Thorpe has built a kart also and we are going on this adventure together.

Hello, Brian! Better and better! Excellent design and proportions, but details, too. Without driver seating there - it could look as original DeDion Bouton! Happy and lucky adventure. Would like to be there, at least in public - following you in "emergency" ordinary car... Ciao, Zoran

Greetings Zoran. Thankyou for your kind comments. We are looking forward to our adventure and seeing how the kart performs. We would love to have you with us. Perhaps one day it might be possible you never know what life has in it's plans for us. And if it does happen we would love to have you come stay with us. All the best my friend.. Brian.

All the best for two of you (Brian and Mike) with your crews across beautiful New Zealand, during 2019 Great Adventure! As Stu, my old Internet friend from Australia likes to say: "You never knows where the harpoon (of destiny) would go!"... I know that I had well-prepared many plans, started serious projects, based on realistic ideas or possible day-dreams - and most of them failed... In the same time, some non-expected or unreal appeared suddenly and finished well - as my arriving here to Swiss almost a decade ago (never planned or wanted)... So, maybe one of the Great Adventures in New Zealand (from 2020 further) would see me and my motorised horseless carriage present there (probably replica of some racer form period of the turn of the centuries)... I wish my internet-friends a successful, funny and jolly voyage through the nice countryside of "Switzerland of Oceania" - New Zealand. Regards, Zoran, from Switzerland - "New Zealand under the Alps, without Ocean"!