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Cycle kart wanted
By: Matty902 Date: October 5, 2024, 1:33 pm
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Good evening,
New to the world of cycle kart startrd looking into them a year
or so ago but attended Newark kit car show and saw them in the
flesh. I really want one now. Have previously done gravity
racing. Does anyone have one for sale complete or part built.
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Re: Cycle kart wanted
By: Matty902 Date: December 9, 2024, 3:35 pm
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Still looking anyone thinking of selling.
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Re: Cycle kart wanted
By: TomFDS Date: December 10, 2024, 5:22 am
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New options for building are now available, Mark has opened a
store selling his chassis and running gear parts. There’s also
more local build groups appearing.
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Re: Cycle kart wanted
By: Matty902 Date: December 10, 2024, 12:05 pm
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Thanks for reply. I am happy to construct the chassis upto
rolling and driving stage this is something we'll within my
current mechaical ability my concern is doing it justice with a
body. I do not believe there is currently anyone that supplies
the bodies. This is.the reason for wanting to buy a complete
one.
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Re: Cycle kart wanted
By: TomFDS Date: December 10, 2024, 2:27 pm
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The bodies of nearly all these early cars were made from wood,
steel and aluminium with very basic tools, especially the race
cars. There are also multiple ways to make a Cyclekart body, you
can make a first attempt then as your skill builds you can re
body the car. Many period race vehicles were rebodied during
their careers after accidents or if the owner fancied a change.
I would advise you to build a chassis and start with a simpler
prototype shape and give it a go. Also each car in the favoured
period was fairly unique, as they were bespoke items. Very few
body panels from even the same coach builder were
interchangeable and the finish would be best described as
“adequate” if you were to impose modern show car standards on
them! For this reason alone I would say it s highly unlikely
anyone would produce a body as an item, it’s not really in the
spirit f the original vehicles or Cyclekarts.
I have about 25 years in full scale car body restoration behind
me and if I had worried about getting my first build to the
standards of some of the bodies on the club pages I might never
have started. Have you seen this excellent video series?
HTML https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPFd4QWjK2yIXKKTeeOZZI0_IQNipY1FP&si=BB2pTMj98_XPcuKv
The body was the simplest part and looked great, followed the
prototype and didn’t cost the earth.
My shell is likely to be pretty basic compared to some on here,
despite my experience I have never made a whole body! Give it a
go, happy to share my limited knowledge and all the people I
have met IRL so far have been really helpful answering my
foolish questions.
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Re: Cycle kart wanted
By: NewbieNick Date: December 10, 2024, 11:24 pm
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Hi Matty,If you have the skills to build a drivable rolling
chassis you are more than 1/2 way there. Building a body is not
as complicated as you might think, lots of different material
choices, my MG & Ian langs beautiful Alvis firebird are both
made from plywood & flexibly.
Careful choice of inspiration car can simplify the amount of
work involved. I personally don’t want to see kit Cyclekarts .
Give it a try you will get a lot more satisfaction with
something you have built yourself.
Regards Nick
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Re: Cycle kart wanted
By: RhysN Date: December 11, 2024, 12:49 am
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Matty, there is one for sale on the Facebook page.
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Re: Cycle kart wanted
By: Jimr1999 Date: December 11, 2024, 1:34 am
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[quote author=RhysN link=topic=1545.msg12100#msg12100
date=1733899772]
Matty, there is one for sale on the Facebook page.
[/quote]
Rhys, do you know more about the advert as the vendor's profile
seems to be American? He is not a CKGB Member, that seems to be
his first post on the CKGB facebook page, I have not seen that
CycleKart at a meeting and he gives no indication of location.
Please share any information to verify that this is a genuine
sale.
JimR
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Re: Cycle kart wanted
By: jim Date: December 11, 2024, 1:51 am
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Jim, The kart for sale on facebook has its build on here. The
owner changed his name on here to guest274. It's the one made
from a ladder.
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Re: Cycle kart wanted
By: Jimr1999 Date: December 11, 2024, 2:00 am
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Found the build journal, he was offering the complete cyclekart
for £1000 at one point, still, a brand new profile and a first
post offering a sale is a dodgy thing on Facebook as we cannot
verify ownership. I would want to see the goods in person and
have a receipt if I could not verify ownership, hence my
question to Rhys, as he may know him.
As always with Facebook, buyer beware.
Here is the build journal...
HTML https://cyclekartsgb.createaforum.com/build-journals/old-number-one/30/
JimR
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