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Marque Remarks => Maico => Topic started by: JC on July 24, 2013, 11:45:16 am

Title: When did Maico go to double cradle-tube frames?
Post by: JC on July 24, 2013, 11:45:16 am

What year did Maico start selling the double downn-tube frames?
Was it 1965?

Title: Re: When did Maico go to double cradle-tube frames?
Post by: firko on July 24, 2013, 12:24:33 pm

John, sorry I didn't get back to you via PM.....According to Frank Ronicke's Maico bible, it looks to me that the centre exhaust 250 and twin downtube frame came out in 1964.
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