Bottom clencher

Originally Posted by Blue_SV650S

Oh and just out of interest ... has anyone else here ever had to be to be resuscitated after a crash?!?!

Anyone else think like this?? I think you need to have just about died to know what I mean!!

Resusitated after a crash, yes, but not on a bike or in a car. Go-kart (off road, racing on a tarmac track, go-kart was seriously over powered for it's weight).

I understand fully what you're talking about with the viewpoint of risk though, and I'm much the same. In my case it's a medical condition that means in a few years (uneducated guesstimate is by the time I'm 40) I'll be lucky if I can sit up, let alone walk (or sit on the bike etc etc).

Why not live life however I want, whilst I'm able to? If I go before I can't walk, personally, bonus, less suffering. The only thing that holds me back is knowing I'd leave people behind who care, and would be upset should the worst happen. I'm also fully insured in the event of death etc because I know I push the limits sometimes.

You don't have to nearly die to understand life/death

i voted "its just a matter of time" i find myself in this situation alot

From a female point of view...this thread is really unappealing, bottom clenching isn't really that attractive is it? As a newb to riding I guess I have all that to look forward to lol...as for my off the other day, I was too surprised to clench altho I have to add, I did NOT have brown trousers afterwards!!

Pretty much every day i have a silly cow in a 4x4 nearly take me out in the back lanes, the other day she was coming round a blinde bend doing 40 and this lane has only room for 1 car! this time i pulled in sharpesh on the bloody gravel n mud and she goes past bout 40 without slowing down straight over a huge puddle and covers me in mud!!!!
every time this happends i think i should go after her but il problly end up in trouble if i do something like that.

What can i do!!! was thinking of a home made stinger trap the police use what u guys think she goes the same route as me every day and she has to learn some way!!????

Originally Posted by wtdafk

What can i do!!! was thinking of a home made stinger trap the police use what u guys think she goes the same route as me every day and she has to learn some way!!????

Causing damage to her vehicle would be a civil offence if not criminal.

Personally, I would make a mental note of the licence plate and report her to the local police (call in the station & do it in person). Vent your spleen. Yes, it's a back road, but if it's so narrow then doing 40mph around a blind bend is dangerous driving IMO.

Yes you could take a different route, however, that may be longer etc. So for every day that you're passed dangerously by this 4x4, pop in the police station & complain. They'll soon get the point, and if you can provide a regular time of day that she's passing, she might just find a marked car ready & waiting for her around that bend. Even if nothing comes of it, it'll give her food for thought.

If plod are dragging their heels, camera solution on your bike & keep handing that in at the desk in the police station until they get the point.

Originally Posted by Baph

Resusitated after a crash, yes, but not on a bike or in a car. Go-kart (off road, racing on a tarmac track, go-kart was seriously over powered for it's weight)...

I am just getting into karts meseln vroom vroom!!

Originally Posted by LouLou

From a female point of view...this thread is really unappealing, bottom clenching isn't really that attractive is it? As a newb to riding I guess I have all that to look forward to lol...as for my off the other day, I was too surprised to clench altho I have to add, I did NOT have brown trousers afterwards!!

It depends who's bottom it is ....

as a noob I'd have thought that you get them pretty frequently ... you know everything being a bit 'new' and all

Blue, that's a fairly decent kart, but are you still on 50/125cc engines with watered down juice? That kart definitely looks like a small engine.

Probably the best indoor kart I had the pleasure of driving was a 250cc twin (as in it had 2 engines!!).

The kind of karting I got heavily into was this sort of thing:


Imagine that, with a Ford Seirra engine shoe-horned in the rear (framework suitable modified, and front weighted down slightly) with 4WD thrown in. Those things don't half shift!!

Bottom clecher is down to about 1 per 750- 1000 miles nowdays.
When I first got the bike it was more like 1 per 75 - 100 miles.

Some of the improvement is due to my riding improving.
Some is due to things that were clenchers now being common place.


The improvement would be greated but average speed has also increased significantly!

Originally Posted by Baph

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I consider that more of a 'buggy' than a kart?!!? Either way, cool I drove one of them on a stag doo (not with a sierra engine in it mind!! )

Although a world apart from the sort of thing you would hire at a kart track, my kart is pretty shoddy as these things go (compared to the £'000s karts that reside in the paddock!! ) The one you drove sounds like a 'pro kart'... here's a pro-kart http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/HONDA-PRO-KART...QQcmdZViewItem ... good fun I am sure, but not really in the same league as what I have got/into. Looking at the auction and the numbers on the side of the engines, looks like they are 5.5hp each motor … so 11hp all in. Mine is ~22-24hp and only 1 light 2-smoke to haul about ... not 2 phat 4-smokes ...

Basically mine is a tuned 100cc 2-smoke, with the right gearing it'll do 100mph ... that isn't BS either (don't worry, I kinda sniggered at the person when I was first told that too ) ... anyway I currently have mine geared for 85mph (done the maths) as that is about right for the track I go to, and it pulls that easily, so with appropriate gearing 100mph I can now see is probably not an unrealistic figure ... and with your botty virtually scraping the floor, that does seem quick!!

Here is a vid of my kart with its old engine ... it was geared for about 80 and although it doesn’t look like it, you can hear it was flat out, therefore would be doing that sort of speed just before the chicane.

Here it is in Blue_ action http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyH7a9bPv1k

The kart I chase in the 2nd part of the vid is a Rotax 125cc Liquid cooled job ... my new engine is about 20% more powerful than the one I was using in the vid, and I can just about keep with them in a straight line now The Rotax's are wider and have better brakes, so can get me into the corners mind


I am going karting this weekend if anyone lives near Andover and wants a gander at what it is all about, I underestimated just how nutty it was!!!!

Yea, that looks a lot like the kart I had a few blasts in, though it looks to be a 160cc twin (5.5hp each side as you said)??

I see a lot of two foot action (revs stay high whilst you're braking) in that video, something that a lot of racers (and almost every noob) doesn't think about. Pro-karts have an automatic gearbox so why not abuse the clutch & keep revs high?

The thing I remember most about that type of kart was loving the semi-auto gearboxes. A lever near the fuel tank (usually in a god awful place to get to) that slides to the side briefly to change up/down gear on the sequential box), most people used to leave them alone to do their job, but I always preferred driving with one hand & changing gear when I wanted to for that extra bit of an edge.

Until you get into it & start sliding sideways with your ar*e on the floor you don't appreciate just how nuts the sport is. I assume you've seen Gixxer-kart? I so want to make one with a 'Busa engine Don't forget Gixxer-kart vs Dodge Viper too!!