Dave Chin's Page

"the age groups for Cadets and Rookies are combined here (and many other places in Asia) into Cadets which goes until the age of 13, when they move into Juniors.  They run unrestricted air-cooled 60cc mini TaG engines.  There are 3 or 4…"

"see the second bullet point from http://www.karting.net.au/outcomes-from-national-karting-council-conference not definitive, but specifications for tender finalised... "

"Thanks, Damian.  i should point out that i do have a relatively vested interest, as we will be moving back to oz sometime in the next 1 1/2 to 3 years.   "

"from an outsider who doesn't have the hands on previous experience with yamaha, i cant comment on what it is like to either want to keep or get rid of those powerplants.  but i have seen many complaints about discrepancies in…"

"i just received another helmet cooling pad from them last friday. btw i think they've changed the supplier for the phase change sheet for the pad because it's plumper and doesn't keep cool nearly as long as the old ones did."

"My son wears both compression shorts and a sweat-wicking undershirt (like under armour headgear) i always wear the undershirt as well).  this works extremely well for singapore and malaysia weather  (36 degrees++ and high humidity).…"

"it's bad that we have plenty of numbers here in Asia for them to continue, yet Europe couldnt field enough.  I suspect there are plenty of KF2 and KZ numbers that would have done CIK, it's just the lack of bodies in the new KF1…"

"There was an announcement 2 weeks ago regarding going to tender for new engines...  but not much else.  i was hoping they'd publish what is in the spec/doc"

"banning the blueprinting and having an engine which  reduces the rebuilding would go a long way to ease people into it and keep a lot of them in longer.  obviously the 'engine builders' miss out on a big revenue stream, which i…"

"we love ours - no issues and great parity.  oh we hope they are chosen... or at least mini 60 TaG's in general including IAME and LKE  "

"like Nicky Hayden.  he's special because he rides bikes not karts... "

"is the tender draft somewhere for review?"

"wow sounds great - too bad we're OS... :-("

"it depends which moto brace - there are some that the position/angle  of the front 'table' can prevent the helmet from tipping forward enough to see the steering wheel.  Most of the GPX ones are adjustable and are similar to the…"

"we just had a great test of the brace last saturday.  Thanks to an adult kart pushing Kalen off the track, he hit the tyrewall and was thrown from kart over the wall - striking it with his helmet.  Although a few tears came out due to him…"

"David - yes it does. we also use 720 @ 60fps "