Sad news about Kymco in Canada

[Louder North]

As some my know, I've been an avid 'Mad Bastard' Scooter Rally participant for many years - this is a Kymco sponsored event in Ontario Canada (www.madbastardrally.com).  Until recently.  They have just announced that 2019 will be the last year for the Mad Bastard Scooter Rally because BECO Canada, the importer of Kymco products in Canada, will no longer be doing so and failing the sponsorship of Kymco, can no longer keep it going voluntarily.  This news is not yet posted on the Kymco.ca website but it does appear on the Mad Bastard site (https://www.madbastardrally.com/mbsr-latest-news/the-good-the-bad-the-ugly) and on Facebook.  I hope of course that someone else will become the importer into Canada of Kymco products and the same entity or another will pick up the sponsorship of the MBSR.    Here's hoping.

[Louder North]

There is a good story about the history of the Mad Bastard Scooter Rally and about the Canadian distributor of Kymco in Canada (BECO). 

http://www.scoottoronto.com/2019/01/the-last-of-the-bastards-the-mad-bastard-scooter-rally-2019/?fbclid=IwAR3tNS5QXBPSEmBj7gnWLLZkfFCWO8Z4n7a1-GZjNCxaawFLemjbFJPspgI

[JJJoseph]

Can't say it wasn't expected.  There's no dealer within 100km, the last one sold out and got a job driving a bus.  The nearest KYMCO ATV drealer, 100km from here has been trying to sell his last "new" 2013 models for several years. There's no tech support and no parts  for fuel-injected models.  I'm still trundling along with a GY6-powered Kymco Sento, so I can find parts somewhat easily in the USA, and no e-diagnostics are required since it has a Chinese powerplant.  My heart goes out to owners of late-model fuel-injected models.  Servicing them is going to be a real bugger, to say the least.