Haha true, but i also need to get a toebar fitted to my car and a trailer !!, 

When it comes to shaping Aluminium i fount that it is not that tricky, i watched a bunch of youtube videos, then brought a few sheets of ally from my local scrap metal yard , im a big fan of making my own tools too, so a log with a dish cut into it i built a small english wheel out of scrap metal from the scrap metal yard , buy a few old hammers , wooden domed malets, i was able to form some good shapes, i subsequently brought a shrinker stretcher and built a louver cutter , if you dont have a tig welder then riveting panels is the way to go, but use solid rivets rather than pop rivets, i made a rivet squasher out of a pair of bolt cropers.
          When shaping metal dont over work it, between anealing cycles, and take your time, with aluminium if you bend it out of shape it is easy to shrink it back to the shape you want, and if your metal work is less than perfect then a little filler and a paint job will hide any imperfections, i find it is much better to shape a flat sheet into the shape you want rather than trying to find a preformed bit of metal ie a lampshade and trying to get it to fit your bodywork without it looking like a cut up lampshade riveted to your kart !!!.
           But thats just my experance in shaping metal to build the body on my Austin seven, i would say get some scrap metal and have a go at shaping it, but have a watch of some youtube videos..

Well the use of a gy6 engine dose not really affect the ethos of a cyclekart, and seeing as it is acceptable to lightly tune the honda engine upto 10 hp which would make it faster than a gy6 engine, , its a perfect setup if your building a three wheeler. For me the ethos and spirit of cyclekarts is keeping the dimensions similar and the asthetics right.

Yes my back is not great too so my seat really helps take out the worst of the bumps .

Hi all so i have built my cyclekart and instaled a gy6 125cc engine which is fitted to most cheap chineese mopeds, purely because i had the engine !, it had its complications instaling it, but it works, i managed a top speed of 36 mph on dirt tracks, and its quite quick of the mark it wont spin the wheels but not far off from doing so . I have not driven a kart with a gx200 engine but i think the gy6 engine is an equal match !!!?.
            The only issue i have is that running over rough ground the engine starts to splutter and smoke a bit due i think to the float shaking about causing the engine to run very rich , dose the honda engine have a float bowl and have the same problem ??.

Hi all so i got my kart out for its first test run and the steering is very lively !!, i just wondered what angles people are running on there karts, i'll have another play tomorrow to see if i can dial it in a bit .
            Its good to finaly get my kart running..

Arr ok that would explain that, thanks.