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Re: Pointless Discussion
Posted by 'SimonS' on 11 Nov 2013 @ 16:03

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Most newbies do get answered with exactly the same passion and politeness that permeates this thread.

One notes for example that Itpro regularly gets called an idiot for not understanding what someone else has to say, but he doesn't throw his hands up in horror, he treats it as something to be ignored.

Some newbies ask questions that could be answered by looking through the archives, searching back with no time limit.

Sure, it takes a while, but off hand there are a set of standard and detailed descriptions of:

How best to start karting.
The 'best' class in which to compete.
How to set up and calculate your weight distribution.
What tyre pressure to put in your tyres and how much to alter it.
How to carry out a practice programme.
What toe in, caster and camber do.
Whether to buy the latest in gadgets or graphics.
Whether painting one's helmet makes one go faster.
and some strong debate on kerbriding.

Regrettably this site does not allow us to write a Frequently Answered Questions section, possibly because some of the answers are directly contradictory.

Nor is there a section advising newbies of useful information to include with their post.

So a question like "What sort or wheels should I put on my kart?" is going to get the inevitable answer "Round ones". Someone will think that is a humorous answer, expecting the newby to understand that there is a lot of information needed in order to get a useful answer.

If that question has been posed on the same day as another thread "What wheels should I fit on my kart?", then the answers might become a little more acerbic; like RTFB1 (an acronym meaning use the search facility first, please).

The main point of this thread has been to determine that itpro has a point, namely that we have to define carefully what is meant or understood by any term, and the experience of the person using it. After all, when he started karting, two horsepower meant eight hooves and cutting someone off shortened them by about 18 inches!

And though you are correct that each person is responsible for setting up their own kart, it isn't their understanding of the problem that matters when they are asking questions. Over the weekend we had someone recently off novice plates complaining that he felt the back end was loose. Lots of advice followed about torsion bars,track widths and tyre pressures.

What he meant was that the chassis had cracked and the back end was, indeed, loose.

Message Thread:

Release... by 'Hi99' (09 Nov 2013 @ 9:43)

Release Itpro continued... by 'Hi99' (09 Nov 2013 @ 11:17)

Re: Release... by 'd-i-y71' (09 Nov 2013 @ 17:38)

Re: Release...so what have we got Now. by 'd-i-y71' (09 Nov 2013 @ 18:11)

Re: Release...so what have we got Now. by 'NikG' (09 Nov 2013 @ 19:50)

Re: Release...so what have we got Now. by 'd-i-y71' (09 Nov 2013 @ 20:31)

Re: Release...so what have we got Now. by 'itpro' (10 Nov 2013 @ 18:43)

Re: Release...so what have we got Now. by 'Liam' (10 Nov 2013 @ 21:53)

Re: Release...so what have we got Now. by 'itpro' (10 Nov 2013 @ 23:19)

Re: Release...so what have we got Now. by 'd-i-y71' (11 Nov 2013 @ 9:44)

Re: Release...so what have we got Now. by 'itpro' (11 Nov 2013 @ 9:53)

Re: Release? How about rate of lift? by 'Cannar' (11 Nov 2013 @ 13:00)

Re: Release? How about rate of lift? by 'itpro' (11 Nov 2013 @ 13:26)

Pointless Discussion by 'vizard' (11 Nov 2013 @ 14:09)

Re: Pointless Discussion by 'itpro' (11 Nov 2013 @ 15:12)

Re: Pointless Discussion by 'SimonS' << You are here!

Delving. by 'd-i-y71' (13 Nov 2013 @ 12:01)

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