Nice Go Karts

[Phishin]

I have a 3 kids in my house: 12, 11, and 10 years old. I'm thinking of buying a Go Kart (or something similar) as a present for all the kids to share as a Christmas gift.

The only things I see locally are junk/cheap pieces of [censored]. Can you recommend a brand?? Where do I even look??

Does anyone make a decent Go-Kart?

 

[Kawiguy454]

I have seen go carts sold at pep boys auto store if you have one. If this is for off road i would steer you toward a 2 wheeled vehicle. On a small dirt bike a kid learns good balance and physical skills and it is wayyy safer than 4 wheeler's that can flip or roll. Then if they get on a 4 wheeler later they will ride safer understanding the physics better.

 

[JTK]

I've seen Coleman brand go karts and minibikes sold at Walmart. Pretty sure they're Chinese import stuff though.

FWIW, back in ~2008 I mail-ordered a Chinese import kids ATV. 110cc. TaoTao was the brand. It was actually pretty decent once I went through it, blue loctited many of the nuts/bolts and secured the wiring better. My kids used it for 3yrs and I sold it for about half of what I paid for it originally. New cost was ~$650 shipped to my door.

 

[tomcat27]

For what terrain? For smooth tracks a Margay. For anything else I would consider a name brand atv.

 

[aquariuscsm]

I haven't seen a go kart in forever. When I was a kid,there were actually go cart shops. I remember these crazy high performance ones. They'd have either two Comet engines or two McCulloch engines and were about a centimeter off the ground.

 

[BrocLuno]

Here are some:

http://gokartsusa.com/

If you want a real Kart:

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=go+...8&FORM=VIRE

 

[04SE]

Had a Manco cart 22 years ago. I had to have put thousands of miles and hundreds of gallons of gasoline through it on my grandparents farm and our farm. It was a 2 seater with a 5hp B&S. 22 years later the motor still runs great and repowered our roto-tiller.

 

[Dyusik]

Someone out there sure does

https://www.youtube.com/embed/tWKNho0ijnk

 

[shanneba]

Since you are in Indiana, check with Comet Kart Sales in Greenfield Indiana. owned by Mark Dismore (Indy 500 driver) and his family since 1959.

https://cometkartsales.com/home.php

 

[Phishin]

I'm going to look at one of these tonight:

Honda TRX90X

I think I can get it for maybe $2850 OTD. Seems better than an off-road go-kart and wouldn't cost $10k like a side by side.....

 

[aquariuscsm]

Originally Posted By: Dyusik
Someone out there sure does

https://www.youtube.com/embed/tWKNho0ijnk


Man I love it!!

 

[BalticBob]

Originally Posted By: 04SE
Had a Manco cart 22 years ago. I had to have put thousands of miles and hundreds of gallons of gasoline through it on my grandparents farm and our farm. It was a 2 seater with a 5hp B&S. 22 years later the motor still runs great and repowered our roto-tiller.


How funny! Me and my brothers had a mini-bike, after one long summer of riding, the motor cratered, so we pulled the motor from Dad's roto-tiller, it fit perfectly! Dad was NOT amused, but he let us keep it on the mini-bike until fall garden time.