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Clubroom => VMX Sidecars => Topic started by: 090 on January 15, 2008, 02:27:31 pm
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3 Wheels aren't really my thing but this thing is cool as!
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Had to put third photo here (too big) (to bad i never have that problem ::) )
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theres some good stuff on that site brad hey
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the wheelbase on that is is huge, is it a grasstracker or an MXer? i bet its a grunty forker
whats the links guys
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hoony it in here but it in a forign langwich lol
http://www.maicomas.net/
scroll down the left side in there some were
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Oh how double sweet it is,,, two angry Maicos........SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
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Thanks for the link; anyone into Maicos should scroll through the photos on this French site.
I'll try to upload a couple of the lairy looking ones.
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Those Maicos where made very quickly after we released the double 2 x YZ 250 Engine in 89 .
Because the YZ pokes out to the left it could only be used in left hand sidecars and the Maicos where better for the German and Dutch right hand sidecars. (because the poke out to the right)But when the FIM droped the CC from 1000 to 750 cc all the advantages from those engines where gone . I did bring one back to Australia . It sounds sweet ( like a very big Banjee) and they go OK .After all , it was alot of R+D for nothing .(Thank you FIM, now you inreased the limit again to 1000) We always joked about selling the the connector castings as Memorial Ashtrays.LOL
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walter have you got a twin engine maico side car
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I did have until last year , and then sold it to Europe. I will send you a pic of it
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i take it would be rare , walter how many were produced that a good one for a maico collector
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They only made 200 of those engines. about 80 of them went into car cross and 120 into sidecars.
There are only 12 still alive today.
But I also have the water cooled version , they made 50 of and there are 7 ,I still know are alive and preserved.
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what would some thing like that be worth walter/and which one are you takeing to cd5
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Well ,hard to say , but the watercooled I would not let it go .
But because it is watercooled 85 , I can not bring it to CD , you cant have a rule for solos and another for sidecars. But I will bring my 112 Decibel 1000 Wasp and the Metisse .
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YSS, perhaps your water cooled '85 Maico could remain on the trailer at CD5.
Picture it bathed in a low lux uplight as a suitable back drop for the evenings gathered drinking crowd.
A rare water cooled Maico would attract the sort of awe usually associated with Michelangelos 'David'... or the Kevlar girls!
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Perhaps I can race the Kevlar Girls off with that .
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Walter, you're welcome to park it in the Kevlar Kompound at CD5. And that monster Yamaha Metisse of yours. They'll fit in with the Kevlar theme for this year. We owe you a Margarita too after the stuff up at CD4. ........The shocks are on the way too by the way.
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A pic of the watercooled in action. Two stroke twin , 142 BHP . Some call it beautyfull power and some could never come to grips with that power . The feeling is like riding a very very big Yamaha Banjee.
Endless power if you combine the head with your wrist.If not , you just sit there and spin.
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these are pretty wild machines. they remind me of a few pics of hill climb solo bikes ive seen. they use 2X 500/550 KTM engines linked together but instead of side by side they have one behind the other. they look amazing. ive also seen a CR 1000 which is 2 CR 500 engines linked togther. those americans are crazy! plus they got all the road bike engine powered hill climb bikes too.
i had to get a nice 750 Triumph Wasp going last week, i should of took some photos of it for on here. i reckon i would have some in some archives somewhere though. theres a photo of it a ADB magazine in around 94 if anyone wants to go hunting.
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walter this topic is very interesting why dont you start a thread of your raceing and bike history ,i for one love reading and seeing pics of the side cars you own and have raced im sure you have many pic tucked away
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Check this one out , Tom Van Heugten with that at the Austrian GP in Feldkirch 86 2x KTM350 V
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30 years is a long topic and I am sure would bore the rest of the soloriders.
PS And when you done the promised laps at CD 5 , you might reconsider LOLwalter this topic is very interesting why dont you start a thread of your raceing and bike history ,i for one love reading and seeing pics of the side cars you own and have raced im sure you have many pic tucked away
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well you have probably experience raceing ;D stuff allot off us only dream of so
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Yes there many good things to remember . But lets keep some stories for CD 5. to tell on the campfire.
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not the sports bar again ;)
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I did have until last year , and then sold it to Europe. I will send you a pic of it
Wasp, any idea if Crazy kept his air cooled EML Jumbo ? and if memory serves me correctly didn't they use Suzuki RM 465 or 500 pistons?
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When the german sidecar riders came out to Australia at Warrnambool sidecar meeting only, their was two bikes with 750cc single engine in them, these engines where specially built for sidecar racing in Europe. l was amazed of the the size, at the time, he told me that they cost 10,000 dollars, and their is a fellow in South Australia that racers one.