Totally cool. Perfect. I seriously like it. He has more ingenuity than most people for sure.
He should start mass producing these and selling them in the USA. It costs him $590 to build and people waiting for their Tesla would gladly pay $999 to own one of these. I bet it gets great mileage.
Agreed! As a kid we built a go-kart out of some old wagon wheels (a really narrow base), 2x4 lumber and a rope for the steering. The second year we had it we actually had the rope around a spool hooked up to an old steering wheel. Had a Briggs and Stratton motor on it and a centrifugal clutch. The motor we got for free from a a neighbor, and my buddy and I went in halvsies on the clutch. (After a few years we dismantled the thing - he kept the clutch, and I never did get any money back. Not that I'm still bitter 45 years later or anything).
He and I were the only ones that could drive it okay - everybody else would tip it over it was so top-heavy.
In the winter I would “tune up” the engine in my basement. Take it apart, clean stuff, and put it back together again. Never could figure out why it ran better with the 1 or 2 bolts/screws that were left over! This would have been 4th - 6th grade I suppose.
Crazy to think my mom let me do that stuff in the basement. “Turn it off!!” I do recall my old-man ragging on me (a little) for not cleaning up his tools and putting them back.
My sister emailed me earlier this year that my “racing partner” passed away. (Hmm - I don't suppose his wife might come across the centrificul clutch?) RIP Mike.
He was the guy that my mom would always blame all the trouble we got into on.
I was the guy that Mike's mom would always blame!