On Thursday 27 May 2010, Mark Wendt wrote: >On 05/26/2010 05:52 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Yup, gimme a 2 stroke, and if its built good, I'll give you something in >> the 2hp/ci for giddyup. I figure my last go cart, with its 13.5 cid >> deflector head water cooled engine, was making a good 25hp, cuz 100 mph >> was not a dream if the sprocket was right. The tracks I ran it on were >> slower than that, so the 15/78 I was running made about 90, but it could >> do 80 from 25 in 75 feet. Mind you this was an elderly Gopher cart that >> scaled at well over 100 lbs without me! Make that 60 feet if the tank >> was full of booze instead of gas. I was an equal opportunity annoyer. >> >> I firmly believe that anyone applying for a drivers license must first >> goto the local cart track, and spend a few days trying to break the track >> record, and will only qualify for a road test in daddy's Lexus if they >> came within 1/2 second of it. >> >> Then, and only then, will they have an inkling of how to handle a dicey >> situation on the street, after all that practice of its getting out of >> line, doing a spinout or whatever, all without mussing up the form and >> paint on daddies $36k chair car. Enough time on the cart that when >> things go tits up in traffic, they do what they need to do completely >> from muscle memory. >> >> We could cut the traffic deaths by 90% or more with just that change. > >One of the bennies of growing up in farm country were big, wide open >fields that farmers let go fallow for a year or so, and what we used to >call "field cars." Dad would get us an old clunker, drop it off in the >field, and let us have at it. We'd spin donuts out there, get into >intentional skids and actually learn how to control and drive a car >rather than letting the car control us. > >Mark
Yippers. Too bad these kids today all think milk comes in neat cartons or blow molded jugs. Gee, would watching a cow get milked gross them out. ;-) Heck, I can recall when I could fill a 5 gallon bucket under one big Gurnsey we had in about 5 minutes, by hand. She could make milk, but it didn't test as high as the jerseys did, she only tested at about 31.5 pounds, where they made 34 pounds easy. Yeah, 65 years ago. My arthritis would make that a 15 minute job now. :( -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) May your Tongue stick to the Roof of your Mouth with the Force of a Thousand Caramels. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
