Sure I can agree with this statement, but you clearly understand what we meant. We work mostly with 3 link racecars, and with the suspension the term rear steer becomes valid vs yaw, so that's just our common terminology. I personally will continue to use the term rear steer on the karts over the term yaw because it just makes more sense to me
@@TurnLeftMotorsports it isn't rear steer, I also deal with a 4 link on a super latemodel. All it does is change the offset of the rear tires tracking to the fronts. It's wrong terminology to say rear steer on a kart, I also worked for a major chassis manufacturer for 14 years
@@jamietwigg5152Rear Steer per Google "when the rear end of a car changes position relative to the steer axis, and can be caused by suspension movement or acceleration." So your trailing arm angles, as your rear suspension changes, change the position of the rear end relative to the steering axis, hence rear steer. I won't argue against the correctness of the terminology on the karts since there is no suspension, although one could argue the karts have chassis flex that acts as suspension, but in a 3 link (4 link probably too, but I haven't done much with them) they have rear steer per definition. The panhard bar angle is what actively changes the "offset"
What would soap do exactly? I know of calcium chloride, but I don't work with much money and it can promote oxidation on metals it comes in contact with.
The modern day singles you're talking about are called DTX bikes, dirt track cross. You use a bike not meant for flat track and convert it to flat track while using the stock frame. The bike I'm riding in this video is a sr500 with a stock frame, so it is technically also a DTX bike :)
Thank you! The karts are a mix of older road course racing karts, and offset dirt oval karts. We run the Harbor freight 6.5hp engines, stock just a governor removed
Thanks for putting this on! Had an absolute blast and can’t wait to do it again! Not gonna lie I’m Pretty proud of 3rd place in my debut. Might have to get back into making RU-vid videos of karting adventures on my Maverick Motorsports channel.
Thank you! Interesting idea, what kind of stuff would you like to see in a video like that? This bike is a stock frame that has been deraked. Motor has been punched out to 540cc and I'm sure it has a few other things done to it. I don't own this bike, I race it once a year at Wauseon for Boyd Racing.
@@travismiller8058 I'll try to put something like that together next time I'm around the bike, might be a year from now though unfortunately. But I do have a bmw f800 flat track bike here I might do the style video you're suggesting at some point.
That was a fun night, perfect weather, Geo Roeder did a hell of a job keeping the dust down and the stands were full. We need more flat track races like that in Ohio.
Move in your wheels as far as you can, try to get your overall width as narrow as the frame allows. Get an oval wheel set. Dial in some RF camber if possible. Those should help, but ultimately a road course kart is never going to be as good as an offset kart on dirt oval.
I know what a Tourist Trophy is, I've personally raced on them many times in flat track, but being it's go karts, it's built off of an oval, I chose to coin the term Droval, Dirt Road Oval.
That's what it looks like on the starting lineup but not 100% sure. I'm not local to Anderson so I really didn't know anyone in this class. I just thought they were cool cars and wanted to film this particular race.
Not too far off what we run down here in Australia, this vid sums it up pretty well ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cuVNZLHJ-dI.htmlsi=0Yq6E1rGdPK2F4kH
We ran some practice, but not a race yet. Hopefully later this summer. It's a riot, you can really hustle an offset kart ok on it. There isn't much passing opportunities is my only worry. We did create an option lane to alleviate it.
Bike sounds great. That lead rider had some skills, looked like you were gonna pull close to him there a couple of times. Thanks for posting. Stay gold.
