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For Sale / For Sale--2009 Kymco MXU 375 4 x 4
« on: April 15, 2009, 12:31:58 AM »
2009 Kymco 375 4x4
This quad is in excellent condition. It has 211 miles on it. There are a few minor scratches on the plastic. Everything on it works perfectly. Tires and rims are brand new. They have never been rode on. This machine is also the same model as the Arctic Cat 366. It just has different plastic. The entire design is Arctic Cat. This quad retails for $5500, asking $3700. Can be delivered to any GNCC race or AWRCS race. PM me or call Ken at 740-312-2893

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MXU / MXU500 parts for sale
« on: April 10, 2009, 02:12:21 AM »
I have a assorted inventory of parts for sale.  Feel free to contact me on anything you may need.  Faster shipping than the dealers.  Contact me at qracer213@comcast.net

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Mongoose / HMF Exhaust System for Mongoose 300
« on: April 10, 2009, 02:08:12 AM »
HMF has finally come out with a full exhaust system for the Kymco Mongoose 300.  It si a one piece system from the cylinder to the exhaust tip.  My son tested it last weekend and it works excellent.  Give them a call 1-866-463-7473

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Race Talk / Trackside with Ken at The Geico Mountain Ridge GNCC
« on: July 07, 2008, 02:13:57 AM »
    Well, another race over and it is break time from the GNCC.  Here is how it all went down this
past weekend at the Geico Mountain Ridge GNCC. 
     I arrived early on Friday morning seeing as how it was a Holiday and I didn’t have to work.  We got our pits all set up and then the work begins.  Kevin had some new tires, Dirt Commanders, for me to try out this race so I went to work on breaking down my old ones and getting them mounted up on my beadlocks.  By the time I got them done, Rodney Baker had convinced Kevin to let him run a set of Afterburn tires on his quad.  Four more tires to go.  But these were a real pain in the butt to mount up.  They were on Hiper wheels and getting the tires over the rims on those things is a challenge in itself.  As soon as I was about finished with those, Mr. Holeshot (Jordan), finally decides to show up at the track.  They act like they live a long way away for some reason.  His dad, Kent, brings me over project #3.  It is a rear differential that the bearing went out on.  We spend the next 45 minutes pulling pinions, seals, and replacing bearings.  Soon after that we had a quick photoshoot with GBC Motorsports for their website.  Then its dinner and bedtime.
     Saturday morning, cool and drizzling rain, but looks to be a great day for racing, no dust and no heat.  We fire off the line and there he is again, Mr. Holeshot himself to the left of me.  I wonder if I will ever be able to beat this guy.  Through the turns it is Jordan, myself, and the top two Can-Am riders.  They manage to get around me in some kickers in the field but I hold fourth.  Soon after they out horsepowered Jordan and got around him.  We were heading down a long downhill field section and I could hear a Kymco breathing behind me.  Just then, Kevin comes strolling by me in the kickers.  I just don’t like hitting those things at high speed like that until I get comfortable with the track, for some unknown reason, he doesn’t hold back.  I actually think he has hit his head one to many times.  Now I am in fifth.  We head out into the woods and hit the big rock sections.  Kevin and I are having flashbacks of our quad terrain days with Arctic Cat as we a beating the snot out of these Kymcos on the rocks.  I am not sure but we may have even bumped each other a few times.  Soon after that, Kevin was able to get around Jordan.  I followed him for the longest time and was able to get by him with a quick stealth like maneuver that I have been working on.  Immediately after I see a faint glow of red beneath the mud on my dash, my engine is overheating.  I stop at the end of the rocks and rip the Duct Tape on the grill off that I was using as a shield and take off again.  Soon after in the high speed fields, the light went out.  Into the finish on Lap #1, Kevin and I are rubbing tires in the turns.  These are the kind off races I love.
     We took off on Lap #2 and we start down over the first hill and Kevin pulls over and lets me by.  I am sure it was because he realized that he was only slowing me down not because he ripped off one of his floorboards like he told me.  C’Mon Kev.  Everything was going great into the lap when that darn light came on again, this time it stayed on for the entire lap.  At the finish line, I took goggles and told Jordan’s dad, Kent, of the problem and took off.  I was running well but could smell the engine getting hotter, and towards the middle of lap #4, I knew I was in trouble.   I could feel the power loss in the engine, especially on the uphills.  I was probably about the 8 mile mark when the engine finally started to die out and I pulled over.  Within minutes, Dan, came strolling by with a huge grin on his face.  I continued working on my quad trying to figure out my my fan wasn’t running, but couldn’t find any problems.  I took off my gear and popped the radiator cap.  I dumped the gatorade and water mixture into the radiator and as quick as it went in, it came back out.  It looked like Mt. St. Helens erupting.  Smoke was shooting 8 feet in the air and smoke was also rolling out of the exhaust pipe.  I know what you are thinking, this was a new one for me too.  After about 7-8 minutes I tried starting it and it fired up, I quickly threw on my gear and took off.  Very little power but it was running.  I was able to catch up with Dan who had ripped off an upper a arm after he went by me.  I started up one of the last hill climbs and it started rattling badly and trying to die, I threw it into low range and that seemed to help.  Needless to say, I made it to the finish line and actually was supposed to do one more lap, but had to pull off.  Kevin and Jordan were both sitting there with floorboards ripped off and Dan came strolling in behind me with his front tire barely hanging on.  The only Kymco to come out of the race unscathed was my son’s Mongoose 300.  Back to the shop and we will get rebuilt and ready for the next brutal stop on our tour, Snowshoe, W.Va.
Have a nice break...........See you in September.....................Ken

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Race Talk / Trackside with Ken at The Yadkin Valley Stomp
« on: June 22, 2008, 03:12:32 PM »
     I arrived at midnight, tired and beaten down, crawled into the back of Kev's trailer for a much needed 6 1/2 hours sleep before he started yelling it was time to get up.  My day started by tearing into the top half of Kevin's engine to reset valve clearances and check for proper timing.  All went well and we had him back up and running by the end of the kids race.  It was beginning to get warm and was threatening rain a little, but man was it dusty.
     I got up to the start late and was the last one on the line, 3 can-ams, 1 polaris, and 4 Kynco's.  I got the worst spot of the bunch.  FLag drops and off we go.  Super fast Jordan gets the holeshot and I am in dead last.  Even though I am the one with the big engine parts, I had to pull out off a hole that I was down in.  More or less, I got smoked of the line.  Iwas last into the woods behind the Polaris.  Within seconds of being in the woods, this guy finds out why Yadkinville sucks.  It is the tightest race of the year and he peels a tree a full speed and goes flying off the quad.  I got around him pretty easily I would say.  I take off and catch up with the third Can-Am of the group, I push him for about a mile until he makes a bad line decision and I quickly get around him.  The rest of the pack is out of sight now and I try to get into a zone as I am dodging all the trees.  One bad hit here and you are done for the day.  I see Dan up ahead and I am not sure if he pulled over when he heard me coming or I got around him.  I pass him and catch up with Kevin.  We are cruising throught the woods in sight of the other three, when there sits Mr. Holeshot, Jordan.  I am not sure what happened next but it looked like he was trying to get around another quad and got hung up in the trees.  When he saw us he quickly got moving, the next thing I know, he spins sideways and Kevin T-bones him.  From the back this is very comical and I am actually laughing under my helmet while Kevin is screaming at him.  He takes off and Kevin and I are in the chase now.  Shortly after that, within a couple of miles,  Kevin gets his taste of bark.  Having steering problems after hittin Mr. Holsshot,  he caught his right front wheel on a tree and snapped the end off of his ball joint.  He was not a happy camper as you can imagine.  The day was over for him, we were to far from the pit for him to get it back.  I get to take of again and go reel Jordan in.  He was running well and towards the end of the lap I caught site of him.  I pushing him for a couple of minutes and then he swung wide on a corner and I took and inside line and got by him.  I started to settle into a good groove now and was running well.
     The course was very tight, some mud in the lower section by the creek, but nothing to wory about.  The big problem was the fields.  The dust was so thick that at times (and this is no exageration at all)  I couldn't see my front bumper.   I would almost come to a complete stop because I couldn't see a thing.  I only had one dust mishap where I misjudged how close I was to the woods and went off a dropoff and almost crashed.  But I was lucky.  On lap three I started getting a headache and feeling quite sick from all the dust.  I was drinking alot but it really wasn't helping much.  I pushed along as hard as I could.  AT lap three I get the 5 lap card, great, I still have two more to go.  I am trying to set a goods pace, but with all the crashes that are happening and all the dust it was quite hard.  I finish the day with a quad that is in perfect condition still, engine running great anf front end still straight with a 95th overall and third for the day.  It was a good day for once.

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Race Talk / Re: Trackside with Ken on The Loretta Lynn's GNCC
« on: April 27, 2008, 09:13:16 PM »
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Race Talk / Re: Trackside with Ken on The Loretta Lynn's GNCC
« on: April 27, 2008, 09:12:43 PM »
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Race Talk / Re: Trackside with Ken on The Loretta Lynn's GNCC
« on: April 27, 2008, 09:12:15 PM »
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Race Talk / Trackside with Ken on The Loretta Lynn's GNCC
« on: April 27, 2008, 09:11:44 PM »
   It rained all night again and was a swamp as usual.  On the line, I picked the farthest line out to get out of the mud.  I was repositioning my quad while they were firing off the lines in front of us.  I put it into reverse backed into my spot and then back into high.  I shut down the motor and fired it again when the next line took off.  I blipped the throttle and went backwards, not good, the indictor light still said "R" but the shifter was in "H".  I quickly ripped off the side panel and the shifter linkage bolt and nut had seperated.  Can't find the nut so I left the linkage hang and shifted it into "H" by hand.  I just hoped we wouldn't need reverse that often. 
   We roared off the line and as I can acrossed the field "The Rookie" was in the lead.  The turns were all full of mud and he took his time and negotiated them perfectly.  I, on the other hand had a heck of a time steering in all the mess.  Kevin spun out a couple of times in front of me and recovered quickly.  I managed to pass the other Can-Am rider in the last straight away and it was Jordan, CLiff, Kevin, Dan, and then me entering the woods.  On the very first uphill, only 1/10 of a mile into the woods, going up a big uphill with waterbreaks in it, Dan comes to a stop in front of me and I quickly shoot around him.  As soon as I straighten out, Kevin's quad comes to a stop and I manuever around him.  I am about 50 feet behind Cliff when I see trouble ahead.  A wolverine is stuck between the trees and there are two quads behind him.  I start looking for a place to duck into the woods and before I can react, this guy on the Can AM, throws it in reverse and pegs the throttle. His reverse limiter was disconnected and he hit me at full speed in reverse alonf with my 30 mph of forward motion.  It crushed the right side of my frame and shove the upper a-arm in over top of the differential.  I didn't even look at it, I yelled a few things to him and off I went.  I knew it was steering hard but I was concentrating on catching the other two guys.  I was having a really hard time getting through the woods but I pressed onward.
   I hit the motocross track and shot off the tabletop and I could see Jordan up ahead, CLiff had already gottne around him.  I landed and hit a couple of hard turns and felt the engine stumble.  I knew something was wrong.  I kept it pinned and roared down past the pit and that is when I knew something was wrong.  Ryan, our pit guy was standing there pointing at the right side of my quad as I went by.  At the next hard right I leaned over and looked at it.  The top of it was leaning in about 6 inches.  I knew it was going to be a long race like this but was up for the challenge.  I pushed through 3 more field turns and the engine finally let loose about 50 feet from where Kevin's quad was sittin dead with no transmission.  I turned around after pulling my helmet off and there was Dan, he couldn't make it up the big hill because he broke the yoke that the rear u-joint goes into.  I continued taking off my chest protector and the niext thing I know an Can-AM pulls in behind me with his front end a mess, he was the last rider in our class and was out of the race also.  I just happened to be sitting in front of his pit.  With 4 of us out of the race in 1 lap.  Jordan had the rest of the day to himself.  I really liked the fact that I only had to do 1 lap to claim third place and he had to do all the laps to get second.  Congrats Jordan.
   I did get to see my son, Doug, come roaring by on his Mongoose 300.  We put his engine kit from PowRoll in last weekend and it was working perfectly.  He was in 9th place, this was his best showing all season.  I got pulled back to the pits quickly and waited on him to come by to cheer him on but he never showed.  I talked with Cliff (Can AM) when he stopped at his pit up from us and he told me he was fine and that he was broke down.  He hit a tree and turned his right side tierod into a boomerang.  I tried straightening it this morning with a sledgehammer but it won't budge.  He must have been really moving when he caught that one.  Better luck on the next one for the Kymco Team!!!

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Race Talk / Re: Trackside with Ken on The Big Buck GNCC
« on: April 18, 2008, 02:05:12 AM »
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Race Talk / Trackside with Ken on The Big Buck GNCC
« on: April 18, 2008, 01:46:13 AM »
It all started out very well with and excellent holeshot with the rookie.  I got boxed out on turn 2 and was in 5th when we went through the start/finish line.  We took off down the first straight away and everyone was going to the left.  I had the quad pinned and was looking at the trail to the right when Dan decided to change his course and pull in front of me.  I took one for the team as to keep from hitting him and taking us both out, I went headfirst into a large tree, hitting my helmet on it as I went over the bars.  I got back up and going in last and found our Rookie stuck in a clump of trees.  I passed him and went around the next corner and slid off the trail in the mud into a row of small pines.  The Rookie went wizzing by chuckling I am sure.  I am not sure where I passed a few people but I managed to get up into about the 5th position by the end of lap 1.  At the beginning of lap 2 ,I noticed the rear of my quad not responding well.  I had broken my rear axle in half and only the left rear tire was was functional.  I threw it into 4wd and continued onward at a much slower pace.  Near the end of the lap I lost control coming down a steep embankment and slammed into my second large tree of the day.  This one made my newly made front bumper a permanent fixture to my radiator and fan.  It also was touching my left wheel not allowing me to turn right.  I managed to make it in the last 500 yds or so to the finish line and the Rookies Dad was there to take charge of my situation.  He sprinted like the wind back to his trailer as I tailed him.  He started with a large hammer and ended up cutting the ends of my bumper off with a hack saw. I am Really glad he was there to help me.  I took back off and now the red light is on and we are overheating.  I pushed my way through the third lap to the big hill climb.   I tried to make it up, but no luck.  I almost rolled the quad over getting it down.  Alot of spectators were there and thats all they were doing, spectating.  I pulled the gearshift into reverse and backed up the big hillclimb with both front wheels digging.  Trust me,  this is not as easy as it sounds.  I managed to get through lap 3 and into lap 4.  The engine is really hot at this point, and it is pouring down the rain, but we keep going.  I know one thing about the Kymco 500.  It has to be one of the toughest motors I have ever raced on a quad.  I took out my radiator in the third turn at Millfield last year and completed 5, 11 mile laps at 94 degrees with absolutely no antifreeze and that engine purred like a kitten.  If this had been my Kawasaki Prairie 700, my race would have been over in less than a mile.  The engines on these quads are almost indestructable. I stand by that, they are now race proven.  At the end of my day I managed to finish in 5th place.  Not bad for all that happened to me.  On a better note, my son, Doug, who is in the schoolboy class finished his race in the 15th position.  What we didn't know until later was that I finished 159th overall and he finished 160th.  He was just 15 seconds behind me on the last lap of the race.  His eyes lit up when he saw that he almost beat me.  I may have to retire before I allow my son to beat me outright in a race.  I am not sure if I could handle the long ride home if this happens.
Congrats to the entire Kymco Race Team.  Out of 10 machines racing that day, we only had one miniquad that didn't finish every lap of the race.  We are getting better every race and our riders, parents, and pit crews are doing a hell of a job to keep us up and running.  Thanks alot!!!!!

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Race Talk / Re: NC GNCC RACE- My take on the mudfest
« on: March 31, 2008, 09:54:49 PM »
1 206 CLIFTON A BEASLEY CHAPEL HILL, TN CAN 4 02:02:13
2 212 JERIME K DUDDING DANIELS, WV CAN 4 02:10:50
3 258 KEN C ROBEY MARTINS FERRY, OH KYM 4 02:19:03
4 602 JORDAN PHILLIPS GREEN MOUNTAIN, NC KYM 3 02:16:43
5 411 KEVIN M JOHNSTON MAIDEN, NC KYM 1 00:34:37
DNF 310 CALEB G JONES MARTINSVILLE, IN CAN 0 00:00:00
DNF 363 DAN G MCCONNAUGHEY HOLLY, MI KYM 0 00:00:00
 

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Race Talk / NC GNCC RACE- My take on the mudfest
« on: March 31, 2008, 01:06:10 AM »
Well, it all started out great when I talked to Dan on Friday afternoon and he told me that everything on the other side of the mountain was 80 degrees and sunny.  As I approached the race on Saturday morning, I could see that the weather he told me wouldn't be in this area anytime soon.  As We (Rowdy, Doug and Ken) drove up the front side of the mountain it got as dark as could be and started raining.  Great day for a race.
When we lined up it wasn't raining hardly at all, but everything was saturated.  We started in row one.  First of the line.  10 seconds and were off.  I hit my start button and everyone else leaves the line but me.  Great!  It fires up and I am a couple of seconds behind.  Turns 1,2,3,4, Jordan and Kevin decide to spin out while holding hands and I go around them.  3 Can- Am's Dan, myself head into the woods.  The woods are tight in the beginning and then all of the sudden Dan comes to a sudden stop, I hit him in the rear, Kevin hits me and Jordan hits him.  Kymco pile up in the woods.  What a great start we are having.  Kevin pulled around me and took off and I trailed behind him.  We caught the first Can Am in a mile or so and were both pushing him through the woods.  There was a sharp left hand turn and all of the sudden this guy just goes straight over the edge of the hill and crashes.  I guess all of the pressure from Kevin and I scared him to death.  We were running well until the first huge muddy uphill.  Kevin started spinning and I went along side of him to keep from hitting him and started to slow down myself.  I hit my 4WD button and started to throw some mud and climb up the hill.  Kevin was stuck, his axles had been removed a couple of races earlier, so no 4Wd for him.  I just started pushing as hard as I could but the elements were holding me back.  There was just so much mud on the track that you couldn't control the quad in the turns and the fields were so sloppy that it was hard to find a line that you could open the quad up in.  The track got really beat up quickly.  With all of the mud on me and the quad, my suspension wasn't working as good as it should have been.  I could feel it bottoming out alot and my back was starting to get sore from the constant beating.  I stopped sometime during the second lap and turned down my steering stabilizer one notch to make it easier to steer.  This helped a little. The creek section was loaded with spectators as usual.  I hit the creek as hard as possible and the engine never fluttered a bit (unlike Ga. where it sucked water in and seized the rings on the piston.  I made a cover between my airbox and gas tank that worked perfectly)  I powered through the water and was on my way.  The course just kept getting rougher and I could feel the mud piling up on my helmet making iit very heavy in the front.  I stopped for goggles and ice cream on Lap 2, but they wouldn't give me the ice cream.  Not knowing where anyone else was on the team, and not knowing what place I was in for sure because of the new scoring system that doesn't work quick enough,  I pushed onward.  I was tiring at the end of lap 3.  On lap 4 I encountered a huge bottleneck in the woods.  There were at least 75 quads sitting in a line waitnt to go.  The bottleneck was a giant ravine that you had to go down into that was an off camber also.  Four quads had flipped over going down the hill and were piled up so noone could get through.  Using my 4WD button once more, I was able to climb up and over a tree that had fallen over.  It was about 2 feet round.  I dropped onto the trail around all the quads that were sitting in line and went down the hill.  They were uprighting their quads and two of them started to go. I was following one of the guys on a Honda up the giant hill when he filipped over backwards and started rolling towards me.  I quickly turned off the trail just in time to see them flip by me.  I made it up the hill with a sigh of relief.  About 5 miles to go to the finish line and I was home free.  I pushed my trusty Kymco as hard as I could and finished 3rd in the class and 55th overall for the day.  What a race!   Ken

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MXU / Re: Secondary spring change- MXU500
« on: March 27, 2008, 12:46:10 AM »
Won't be there until Sat. Morning.  Can't get off work Friday.  See you guys on the starting line.

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MXU / Re: Secondary spring change- MXU500
« on: March 26, 2008, 01:13:22 AM »
Don't you usually get to do what YOU want on YOUR birthday????   See you at Steele Creek.

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