Will be covered live on youtube.
Here are the betting money lines:
Burpo doesnt even actually show up to the race: +200
Hastings straightaways the field: +500
Burpo and Hastings crash each other going for a tiny plastic trophy: -200
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Any of those outcomes would be entertaining!
I’m curious about how this compares to the Compkart 3.0 4R if you are willing to share your thoughts!
lol, I forgot about that one!
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Burpo faster so far. Raining harder.
Duel on slicks please thank you.
Also this is kinda cool to have two or more drivers on the forums kinda duke it out.
We should have this a more tracks.
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Dried out for the final. Got tight with 3 to go. @fatboy1dh got the best of me today.
The cool thing about meaningless rivalries are the ups and downs and how it brings out the best in us sometimes. It’s entirely possible that you are both faster egging each other on.
Of course the opposite could also apply! 
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Those fastest lap times, tho.
We were glued together until 3 to go. Was a fun race.
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I know if does look like much, but there was alot of welding, grinding, painting, and fitment activities today. I think I had the seat, motor, and axles on and off more than twice today.
And I’m still not done. Tomorrow is another day . . .
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It’s like chicken-math for karters! 
What’s chicken-math?
He seems to be a sucker for strays.
Housing chickens in your back yard in suburbia has become a thing over the last decade. It usually starts with 2 or 3, but quickly expands to a dozen or more. This phenomenon has been coined “chicken-math”.
My wife grew up in a semi-rural area and being born of immigrants, grew up with chickens, goats, rabbits and who knows what else in her back yard. Fast forward a couple of decades and there we were living in suburban Dallas, TX when I come home one day to find a pile of white feathers on the side of my house. Something had killed a loose chicken. Later we see another loose chicken wandering the neighborhood. A week or so later, I come home and see this wandering bird near the side gate to my back yard. I go into the house and find some bird feed my wife has and start spreading it on the grass leading to and through my side gate. It works and the chicken wanders into the yard. Not wanting the same fate to befall this animal, we now own a chicken.
Chickens are social creatures and usually do not do well on their own. My wife convinced me to add to the flock with a few baby chicks from the local hardware store. A week later we came home with 3 new baby chicks. Here I am thinking our toddler would learn about how things grow and mature, but instead my wife kept finding more birds from neighbors or by hatching fertilized eggs she bought off another nearby chicken hoarder. My wife is a sucker for Strays too! We have had as many as 18 at one point, but through illness have lost many and now we are down to around 9 or so.
Her excuse is she sells the eggs, but the reality is that after a two or three years their egg production drops significantly and now we are just an old folks home for aging birds. She is too chicken-shit to cull any of them, so we are left with 3 producers and 6 tenants. Two of which are from the first three chicks we bought. Fresh eggs do taste better, but what does it matter if you are not allowed to eat them because they are for sale?
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Thank you for the explainer! Hee-hee. Sounds pretty fun, actually. My cousin Andy and his spouse did the same up in Vermont. Throw in some barefoot marathoning and you get the NE flavor of the same thing!
There’s a farm here in Princeton that has been around forever called Terhune’s Orchards that features really terrific cider and has all sorts of animals for the kids (and adults) to interact with.
One of my favorite things were the Guinea hens. There was a big pack of them that ran around the stable/roost area. Operating as a unit, they were funny to watch… the sprint karters of the really-dimitted flightless bird world.
I am told that they eat alot of pest insects and the like and are a good thing to have around. I wouldn’t mind, TBH.
It was pre practice testing today for my kosmic /rok kart . Everything went all right, except a broken bolt at the back bumper. But it’s better to broke near home and fix it. Than shit happens at the race track and waste time from practice
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The real truth is they are a menace in a suburban environment! They are noisy, The poop everywhere which actually attracts tons of flys. My back patio is constantly covered in bird shit! They scratch at the ground killing my already heat stressed grass making it nearly impossible to recover. You can’t walk through the grass without stepping in bird poop. The entire family has back yard shoes just for this purpose. Also the feed attracts other unwanted critters such as mice and rats.
I would rather buy fresh eggs than house another chicken for the rest of my life!!! Maybe if I had enough land that I didn’t have deal with all of those things I would reconsider.
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A friend is interested in karting and so i let him try it my kart. He drove really well. Unfortunately, the throttle cable got stuck and he ended up off track and the kart is covered in dust. The dust has caked on to areas that had any oil/grease.
I started the process of cleaning the kart. I took the engine off the kart. Cleaned around the right rear bearing. Will continue cleaning one step at a time.
Any tips on cleaning would be greatly appreciated.
I’ve read of people pressure washing and I think that might be easier but I’m not sure how the wheel bearings will fare.
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