Hello,
I'm doing a "entrepreneur's aim" (dunno if the term is right - a summary of a business idea, with all aspects discussed, tables, graphs etc.) for my bachelor thesis and the business I'm planning is a GoKart race track. There is information I could not find on the net niether get it from an operator of an already existing racetrack, but it's vital for the planning part of my work...

The question is> How much do Kart tyres wear (i guess it's best to fit the hardest tyres for public use)? How often do they need replacing (front/rear)? How much does the ordinary maintenance of a kart cost (like replacing the clutch, brakepads, etc)?

Please does any of you know? I'll be grateful for any input... Thanks!

What kind of kart are you talking about? Professional or Leisure?

A lot of things will affect the tyre wear, but the surface will make the biggest difference. Tarmac will wear more than painted concrete for example.

leisure kart, public use... 15 minute ride, for some $$$
the surface will depend on how much a painted one costs... a tarmac area is available in the begining...

Cool Thesis! I have no idea how the wear/tear is though. Perhaps it would be an idea to kindly ask some of the employees at a kart-center near you?

On hire karts wire and tear is pretty easy going, there is a reason them things weigh so much compared to there racing counter parts .

Those Honda engines will run forever in a day so no need to worry much about them. Usually hire karts have (forgot the name of the material) special toe rods on the front that will just absorb the impact and spring back to shape. Maybe chains would be the part most often changed, but again usually hire karts have pretty heavy duty chains and are just run till they break.

Only thing I'm not hugely sure of is clutches as you often get the people who seem to press both pedals at the same time. Can still smell the burning from my local kart tracks open day last year where they gave free shots of the pro-karts

A local indoor karting place near us, they have just moved to a new place and they've laid this very grippy surface which they are regretting. They are just chewing tyres up compared to their old painted tarmac floor.

formula A tyre YJB's they last maybe 2 to 3 heats , super soft compound

I've just got myself a summer job as kart mechanic at our local track. i've only done one week due to uni so not sure about tyre life etc, but in my first week i had six bent axles to replace! and that week was a quiet one, apparently it gets a lot worse in the summer. all of them were bent through someone spinning and then getting hit by another kart on the rear corner.

sorry i cant be more helpful but just another thing to think about

thanks for the input guys!