Anthony Fordham

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Take soapbox racing to the next level with a motorcycle engine

Embrace the art of CycleKart

An excerpt. The full piece is live at the link below.

For the DIY petrol head, the ultimate project is building a kit car. The downside? It takes serious cash, and serious time. Similarly, restoring a classic car means following someone else’s rules, go-karting is fast but so very serious, and soapbox racers are for kids and wind-tunnel-equipped university engineering departments.

What’s a gearhead with a small garage and only $2000-$3000 in spending money to do? There is an answer: it’s called a CycleKart.

Popular Science (popsci.com)25 July 20192019
A CycleKart styled after a 1927 Nash Legion racer
Mr gambrinus, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

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