| For a long time in America and Europe go karts have | | | | Really little has competed with the go karts these |
| been the most popular motor based child's sport, | | | | companies produced up until the production of the first |
| starting out with the pedal powered Kettler and other | | | | few micro bikes - the first generation of pit bikes. They |
| Karts and progressing all the way up to the petrol | | | | started out really as "monkey bikes" - a title awarded |
| powered go karts you see driving fast around your | | | | after they were often used as entertainment with |
| local go kart track. But the latest trend see's the | | | | specially trained monkeys riding them, but they were |
| introduction of a two wheeled equivalent - the Pit Bike. | | | | quickly picked up as great fun by smaller humans, |
| With the internet helping pit bike popularity rocket and | | | | despite their price tag being somewhat inhibitive. |
| ever decreasing prices pushed down by the larger | | | | From the first few monkey bikes created a slow idea |
| quantities purchased, will the dwarf motorbikes | | | | was spawned, creating replica's of real life motorbikes |
| overtake the 4 wheeled traditional go kart in | | | | in miniture. This first went from the companies |
| popularity? | | | | producing scooters and mopeds creating lower cc |
| As early as there was cars in production there have | | | | bikes that looked like their full blown counterparts, |
| been children wanting to make their own version, little | | | | scooters that looked like superbikes! This idea caught |
| was as popular in America with young wannabe | | | | on fast with the youth who were keen to feel like they |
| racing drivers as the soap box derby, famed for | | | | were riding a bike much beyond their years. Pit bikes |
| bringing fathers and son's together and for producing | | | | was an extension of this - Trails bikes were miniturised |
| some great racing, great karts and ultimately leading to | | | | to provide a younger audience with a new type of |
| the careers of some fantastic racing drivers. But why | | | | excitement. With hints of the monkey bike and the |
| choose a car to recreate - why not a motorbike? well | | | | style and design of a full size trials bike these pit bikes |
| at these early times there was likely to be an | | | | were a huge success and sales have grown ever |
| increasing number of cars being produced as well as it | | | | since. |
| being a brand new invention which probably created a | | | | In fact today some major retailers are still not sure |
| large buzz around it. Whats more a 4 wheeled kart | | | | which is more popular - the go kart or the pit bike, |
| appears much safer and easier to build than a two | | | | some London resellers are swinging towards the pit |
| wheeled motorbike or moped. | | | | bike while another major american reseller continues to |
| So go kart's had deep roots within American culture | | | | promote the go kart, perhaps for now they are on an |
| and were being improved and more massly produced | | | | even plane, but with pit bikes getting ever cheaper it |
| by Japanese motor companies like Honda and Suzuki. | | | | could change at any time! |