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Earliest shifter karts
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Any input on when motorcycle engines started to be put on karts?  I know the watercooled rotax gp engines started being used in the early 80's, but was wondering if the yamaha rd motorcycle engines saw use as kart power plants in the 70's? I'm sure there were some one offs, but curious when they started to get their own recognized classes.  

Long story but I ended up with an RD 125 engine and was thinking it would be cool to use it on a vintage enduro.
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Earliest shifter karts - by Paul Hail - 03-22-2019, 05:33 PM
RE: Earliest shifter karts - by ted johnson - 03-22-2019, 09:13 PM
RE: Earliest shifter karts - by steve welte - 03-22-2019, 09:22 PM
RE: Earliest shifter karts - by David Luciani - 03-25-2019, 01:58 PM
RE: Earliest shifter karts - by Gary Wlodarsky - 03-26-2019, 08:45 AM
RE: Earliest shifter karts - by ted johnson - 03-26-2019, 09:41 AM
RE: Earliest shifter karts - by steve welte - 03-26-2019, 11:55 AM
RE: Earliest shifter karts - by ted johnson - 03-26-2019, 02:32 PM
RE: Earliest shifter karts - by Paul Hail - 03-27-2019, 05:48 PM

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