I used to race Karts and now my 7 year old wants to start. I started as an adult and finished about 15 years ago so have never got involved with cadet class.

I was looking to get a used Honda class one, and set it up for him, he loves tinkering and making things so he would enjoy working on his own kart....any advice, karts for sale...multi million pound sponsorship deals??

Sorry Zetec, but I can't help. However I do have a 6 year old who can't wait to get started in his karting career!

I'll be keeping an eye on this thread for any hints.

Cheers

Mike

I would suggest a visit to you local karting club and have a look at the size of grids in each class. I believe they are 3 separate cadet classes ATM, so you need to look at which is currently the most popular.

Try looking at www.karting.co.uk.

Regards

Scott

If you want him to drive in F1, don't leave it much longer!

Be prepared to spend a lot of dough if you want to be competitive! I ran a friends son in Junior TKM & subsequently senior TKM. He was pretty quick, but it was almost impossible to break into the top 3 finishers simply due to cost. They would turn up in £100,000 motor homes with half a dozen spare chassis & engines available to them, would bolt on a new set of slicks at the start of the meeting (worth around .3 sec per lap) run the heats on those & then bolt a fresh set on for the final
It was like swimming against the tide, you stood no chance & all this for a crappy little club meeting & first prize of about tuppence.
Don't expect to compete on an even playing field.
On the upside of course even tho' you may not win it is still enormous fun.

russbot is exactly right

youngsters pro karts is a good competitive way into karting there twin gx160 engines still raced and more user friendly than the 2 strokes

and how true all the other people turn up in big 100 grand american motor homes they take it so seriously dont think your gonna have a locost chat with the other dads

I don't know how karting is in the UK but in the Netherlands we have several junior classes.
I bought an old kart with a Comer 60 cc engine and restored it complete. I made the seat higher and moved the pedals more to the rear with a sub frame. At that time he was 4 years but that was a little to early,
I let him play with it, I pushed and he braked and steered.
When he was 5 years we first went to a track special for little kids (4 years and older). After a few times he made a lot of progress.
Then I bought some sticky tyres (like the others) and he could race them, very enjoyable to see. Very nice actions, no fear.... More action than F1 today.
At this moment he is 7 years and I found a competition for him in Germany near to the durch border. It is not a FIA (way too expensive) but there are a lot of drivers (Dutch and German) I bought a Tonykart mini chassis with a Parilla 60 cc (2-stroke) engine with an electric starter. About 6,5 BHP. 22 september he has his first race so we are very curious how he wil drive with other kids (age from 8 - 11 years).
He already met a boy of 11 who had won a few times. Because the Parille engine is much faster then the Comer he could not race but he managed to keep him 5 laps behind him, superfun for my son and for me to watch it.

Well, as an alternative, there's always the grassroots racing, where pretty much everybody can be competitive..

Thanks for the replys, I'll try to keep the post updated if I find any info if anyone else is in the same boat.

My son's just about to move to next class and he's been racing Honda Cadet 4stroke for a couple of years, with lots of success. 1st, 2nd ,3rds on a regular basis.
Easy maintenance no expensive rebuilds,
Cheap running costs.
So.. its up for sale...if interested i'll send u some pics.