scannon Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 (edited) If you haven't seen this new toy on the market check out or search YouTube for "crazy cart". After watching a few of these videos a friend and I each came to the conclusion that we needed one. Never mind that the manufacturer puts a weight limit of 140 lbs on it (both of us are in the 190 lb range), we figured we would ride it until it broke and fix it and ride some more. We went to a Toys R Us store to check one out and put it on the floor and sat on it to see if we could fit. It was a very tight fit and we couldn't drive it since it didn't have a battery in the floor model. We had a coupon for a 20% discount and the clerk offered another 15% if one of us signed up for a Toys R Us credit card. This brought the price down from $400 to about $275 and we split it between us. The first test rides were in my shop so space was limited but it didn't take many minutes of riding to get very uncomfortable. Once I crashed head on into the lift tower and put a dent in the front of the chassis. Worse than that the family jewels crashed into the two bars supporting the steering column. Some modifications were in order. You can see the modifications I made to the car here: http://s1261.photobucket.com/user/scannon929/library/Crazy%20Cart Edited November 21, 2013 by scannon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xcarguy Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 LOL!!!!!! Leave it to a 'car guy' to buy a brand new car, get it home and then modify but right away. Now that is Crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xcarguy Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 Stupid spell check . . . modify IT right away. And you can't edit from an iPad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scannon Posted November 21, 2013 Author Share Posted November 21, 2013 LOL!!!!!! Leave it to a 'car guy' to buy a brand new car, get it home and then modify IT right away. Now that is Crazy. Just another instance of CLIS (Can't Leave It Stock). Its been a long time since I bought a car and didn't make some modification immediately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Croc Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 Skip I am just pissing myself laughing of the image of you going head on into your lift tower! Your workshop is plenty big enough in the other direction! :rofl: I think I want one of these for Christmas :drool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scannon Posted November 23, 2013 Author Share Posted November 23, 2013 Skip I am just pissing myself laughing of the image of you going head on into your lift tower! Your workshop is plenty big enough in the other direction! :rofl: I think I want one of these for Christmas :drool: I WAS going the other direction, things just got bit out of control and there are no brakes on a Crazy Cart. Fortunately due to the shortness of the shop the cart cannot get up to its top speed of 12 mph. That might have had a permanent effect on the jewels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scannon Posted November 27, 2013 Author Share Posted November 27, 2013 Here are a few clips of some friends and I having fun with the modified Crazy Cart in my shop. Not much space so the cart cannot get up to full speed before running out of room. It was too dark and too cold to take it out on the street, I made some more mods because the moving of the seat and battery towards the rear along with our having more upper body mass made the car susceptible to tipping over or even doing reverse wheelies with a loss of traction and steering control. I moved the battery and controller to the front of the cart and added wheels under the old battery tray at the back to make a wheelie bar. The cart is more controllable. Darrell and Daryl in the first two videos have never been on the cart before that evening. They did pretty well considering the number of margaritas we had at dinner. http://s1261.photobucket.com/user/scannon929/library/Crazy%20Cart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy325 Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 Your workshop is plenty big enough in the other direction! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Croc Posted November 28, 2013 Share Posted November 28, 2013 They did pretty well considering the number of margaritas we had at dinner. :rofl: And you wonder why you have been hitting things! Please invite me next time - that looks great fun! :seeya: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scannon Posted November 28, 2013 Author Share Posted November 28, 2013 :rofl: And you wonder why you have been hitting things! Please invite me next time - that looks great fun! :seeya: Before we started I pronounced death by dismemberment to anyone who hit the Caterham, I didn't care about the lawn tractor (2 hits), the shop vac (1 hit), the garbage can (3 hits), the tool cabinets (2 hits) or the lift tower (1 hit). Any time you or anyone else is in the area we can get it out and have some fun. Its fun even if you aren't drinking margaritas. If the weather is bad we can run it in the shop again. Jimmy325: The way we were going was the long dimension of the shop. There is a Caterham and a 4 x 8' trailer on the other side and a lawn tractor in the middle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hettric Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 http://www.gizmag.com/razor-crazy-cart-xl/34516/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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