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24 Hours of Grange, Take 2!

MOrons Dirty Sean and T. Trizzle race around the clock this weekend Last year, the mighty men of MO participated in the UMRA’s 24 Hour Endurance Race at beautiful Grange Motor Circuit in Apple Valley, California. Their highly modified but lightly tested Honda Grom carried them to a less-than-stellar finish but yet a satisfying sense of accomplishment.

2013 AIMExpo: Kymco MYROAD700i – Video

Kymco had one of the larger booths at the 2013 American International Motorcycle Expo in Orlando, Fla. and taking up center stage was the largest displacement scooter available in the United States – the MYROAD700i. This maxi-scooter is powered by a 59-horsepower, fuel injected, parallel twin, 699cc engine.

2018 Kymco Xciting 400i Review - First Ride

My fling with a thing Credit: Photos by Michael Spain-Smith We were snuggled into a conference room in the upscale Aloft hotel in Asheville, North Carolina, when PR man Peter Jones kicked off Kymco’s 2018 new-product launch by telling us that scooters in the U.S. market are “such a small thing, they’re not even really a thing… scooters and soccer, they’re just not a part of our culture.” But the lack of scooter culture has made Taiwanese manufacturer Kymco itself a thing. After staying doggedly in the American scooter market for the better part of two decades, Kymco has a coast-to-coast dealer network, a good reputation for reliability and value, and is basically the only purveyor of value-priced, high-performance maxi-scooters.