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I'm very curious as to what you thought of that 84 SC500 if you got ride it.

Stan there are two bikes I've owned over the years that I really regret selling, one was a Champion framed SC500 Yamaha flat tracker and the other was the Maico SC500 (It's a weird coincidence that they're both SC500's and that I sold 'em to the same bloke 15 years apart.)

The Maico was/is an absolute rocket, probably the best Maico I ever rode. I found it to be quite a different bike to ride to the '81 490 because of the different engine characteristics. The '81 models chain primary and the '84 models geared primary produce totally different engine dynamics to the point that even though they're both the same capacity Maicos, you'd swear they came from different factories. I reckon the '84 is an easier bike to ride despite a strong tendency to wheelie. The single shock rear end worked great as they'd fixed the linkage ratio problems that marred the '82 model. If Maico had released this bike in '82 it would have killed the opposition and Maico might not have gone to the wall.

What Firko said, I've had 2 of them they lived up to the maico breako tag,  but where a great ride. As good as, if not better than any Jap pre '85 big bore.

This forums Slakewell had a guest ride on the '84 (Big Red as we named her) at the last Amaroo Park vintage meeting and he raved about the bike at the time. He was pissed at me for selling it .