The 77 AW was red, the 76 was polished alloy..
77 Maicos should have red tanks. Brisk Sales also brought in two 125 Road Racers. I loved to know where they are.
I was at Stacker Motorcycles in January 77 when the new shipment arrived and helped uncrate and assemble my new plain alloy tanked, red framed, white plastics MC400. I still have it and would like any of you guys to let me know what was different to the red ones that we also got down here a bit later as I can't see any.Which backs my theory that the white ones were a 76.5 model......but not called that of course ;).
Which backs my theory that the white ones were a 76.5 model......but not called that of course ;).
Maico ID chart says 77 model with no mention of a 76.5 because there was no such model ;)Of course ::). What I meant was that I think that the very first batch of the 77 AW's produced in the second half of 1976 had the white plastic. Another discrepancy I've noticed on some AW's were the rear shocks. I believe that Koni was the original supplier but mine had Bilsteins from new and a mate in the USA reckons his had Corte Cosso's. What did yours have Greg?
Mark, you are probably right about early 77 shipments but that still does not mean that mine is not a true 77 model.I wasn't implying that your AW was anything but a '77. What I was implying was that would have been made in late 76 for you to be assembling in it Stackers shop in January '77 . I've had an oops moment, I said Koni but as soon as you wrote Girling I knew that's what I meant to say. Mine definitely had Bilsteins though, as did the spare frame I bought off the same bloke I'd bought my AW from. They were painted red instead of the traditional yellow.
Just to confuse everyone. Steve New had (still has it) a 1976 400 it was yellow with Alloy tank. Also the 400 I got was part way through the year (I started the year on a KTM 400). Like I said it was all red. However the 125 if I remember correct had a red frame with white guards. I can't remember if the tank was painted.
Kevin