Kingy said:

Spiny Norman said:

Michael V said:

So much better than cables and rods, that’s for sure.

Oh yeah. I could never really get used to the brakes on karts, no feel for me.

There was something wrong with your kart then.

The brakes on race karts are very much touchy-feely.

I once had a go in a kart that some genius had sprayed CRC onto the brake disk. It was like an on&off switch. You either had no brakes or the rear were locked up.

I’ve really only driven kart-track rental karts and so not exactly in the best condition. I did drive one once that was much better – It had a two-speed box in it, you’d just move a small lever and you’d go up or down in gearing. Epicyclic gears I think.
But, as you know I’m not exactly built for tiny little cars.
FWIW on my old racing car, the brake pedal moved about 6mm then went solid, no real movement after that. It ended up being just fine for controlling the stops.