What would motor sports be without the thrill of speed? If you want to experience this sense of intoxication close up, you can savor the realistic racing atmosphere of an indoor go-kart track, where recreational drivers put a huge load on the gears as they fight it out in their small, four-wheeled vehicles. The gears have to fit into a very small space and be designed to withstand high speeds and high breakdown torques. The gears in the electric karts manufactured by RIMO – a company which has been operating in this area for twenty years now from its base in the Sauerland region north-east of Cologne – are no exception. Georg Roters, Head of Production, invited WITTENSTEIN to a field trial. The SP⁺ HIGH SPEED gearbox took pole position with ease.

RIMO Germany is a go-kart manufacturer with the ability to produce in-house. RIMO karts are exported all over the world. The portfolio also includes electric karts equipped with 2 x 2.8 kW motors and separately actuated rear wheels.

The SP⁺ HIGH SPEED planetary gearbox is a genuine all-rounder that can be tailored to each customer’s individual requirements. Since the disk brake and wheels of RIMO’s electric go-karts are mounted directly on the output shaft, a special shaft had to be developed by WITTENSTEIN for this purpose. The gearbox version selected by the customer was simultaneously manufactured to handle very high speeds. WITTENSTEIN gearboxes have a nominal input speed of 4500 rpm; the RIMO gearbox was tested at 6300 rpm – for three hours solid at no load with the kart jacked up.