Kevin Johnston wears a lot of hats at the races. He's a racer, of course, taking the Utility Unlimited Championship a few years back and then contending for wins in the 4x4 Lites class while helping develop product for Kymco. On the side, he has created a new contingency and support program for GBC tires and has even…
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Canadian Jeffery Pillon is the 2008 GNCC 35+ C bike Champion. Sounds like he had a good year, right? Well, not quite. While training for his 2008 run last January, Jeff woke up one morning in an Arizona retirement village to find his bike stolen. Luckily, his compassionate wife sent him money to buy a brand new bike…
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GNCC bike racer Charkie Huegel has an interesting story to tell. After a few years racing the B and A classes in our series, he decided to take a year off and move to Sweden with his girlfriend. But Charkie couldn't shake the racing bug, of course, so he bought a bike and found some GNCC-type off-road races to compete…
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Big personalities come and go, but no one can match the character of William Yokley in the Can-Am Grand National Cross Country Series. Still one of the top ATV pro racers, he has built a legend around his rebellious "Hell Yeah" attitude. But behind his Kentucky boy rep lies a calculated rider who understands the…
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Big Nutz Racing. Sound good? Team BNR is a group of privateer ATV racers that understands what GNCC Racing is all about. They race and ride hard in their classes, but they do it as a team, because this series is about friendship and camaraderie as much as it is results. BNR Team Manager Ryan Smith put together these…
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Former racer Scot Harden held a management position for a long-time at KTM, but a few months ago he made a switch over Husqvarna to become their National Sales and Marketing Manager. He comes as part of Husky's rebirth under its new parent company, BMW. Even in a down economy, Husky is looking to expand, through…
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Tom Wright has an appetite for adventure. He's the new GNCC Senior A (40+) ATV Champion, and he's looking to turn pro for next year. In between, he ran the Baja 1000 and nearly won it, and wants to find some riding partners to take on long endurance races all over the world. That's more than enough to make him the…
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Sometimes kids just can't make up their mind, and that's the case for 10-year-old Charlie Welch. Charlie is already a solid ATV racer, but this year he started racing a bike, too. The result? Second in his ATV class, and top-ten on the bike. And today's Tuesday Toolbox.
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He's the man. He's the legend. He may be the best to ever do what he does. He's Bill Ballance, and he's now a nine-time GNCC Champion. How does Bill do it year after year? How does he keep the fire burning? And when will it ever stop? We sat down with the champ at the season-finale at the Ironman to get some insight.
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Steve Hatch was a staple at the front of the GNCC bike pack until he retired at the end of the 2004 season. But Steve, notoriously one of the hardest workin riders in the sport, couldn't just put the sport away. Today's he's a trainer to both Nathan Kanney and Kailub Russell, and after their double wins at the Ironman…
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It's over. David Knight is about to leave the GNCC racing series behind after dominating his way to two championships. He also decided to end his run by racing an ATV at the Ironman. He's also switching teams next year and may run some GNCCs just to get in some testing. For the 2008 GNCC Champ, change is good.
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Honestly, no other class in GNCC Racing seems to offer the competitive balance that we see in the Women's ATV Class. Year after year the title goes down to the wire, and this year is no exception. Traci Cecco and Angel Atwell are basically tied in points coming down to the finale this weekend at the Klotz Ironman…
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With new champion Thad DuVall moving out of the XC2 class, the door was open for someone new at Power Line Park. Turned out the someone new was someone who has been around, Monster Energy Kawasaki's Scott Watkins.
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Score one for the amateurs. At last weekend's Can-Am Unadilla GNCC, 200 C Schoolboy competitor Morgan Moss broke through to win the morning race bike overall. That's the first overall win by a non-sportsman class rider all year. Now Moss has the 200 C title locked up, so he's headed to the B class. Find out how this…
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Let's put it simply: Chris Bithell is back. After a tough first season with the Warnert Racing Can-Am team, the young Pennsylvanian got back on track with a big overall ATV win at Unadilla over the weekend. To say the least, Chris is relieved. We called him today for an update.
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Where has Walker Fowler been this year? After becoming the first ever rider to win both Bike and ATV GNCC Overall Youth Titles, Walker was hoping for big things this season jumping onto bigger equipment. Riding Four-Stroke A Lites in bikes on a WR250F for the Am-Pro Yamaha team, and the Schoolboy ATV class on a GT…
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Adam McGill roared back into victory lane with a big win at the Moose Racing Snowshoe GNCC in his native West Virginia over the weekend. Unfortunately for Adam�s title hopes, the win followed some sub-par finishes at the last few rounds, which have put him way back in points. But the 21-year-old has learned a lot…
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Tim Farr is the man behind KTM's ATV project, as the four-time ATVA Grand National Champion spearheads the racing and development for the Austrian company. Farr just returned from the Pont du Vaux 12 Hour ATV endurance race in France, taking second overall along with Adam McGill and Taylor Kiser. Today Tim tells us…
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Johnny Gallagher lives, sleeps, eats and breathes GNCC Racing. He comes from a GNCC Racing family, he works in the GNCC industry, and he's also one of the top riders in the ATV XC1 Pro Class. But in the past, it seems like Johnny G spent as much time helping friends race as he did help himself. This year, though, he's…
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Things have not gone to plan for Warnert Racing Can-Am's first-year GNCC effort in the XC1 ATV Class. With the much-hyped Can-Am DS450 to race and proven winners in Chris Jenks and Chris Bithell on board, the team should have been firing off wins and podiums all season. Instead, they're just trying to finish the…
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