Author Topic: When did Maico go to double cradle-tube frames?  (Read 1204 times)

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Offline JC

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When did Maico go to double cradle-tube frames?
« on: July 24, 2013, 11:45:16 am »
What year did Maico start selling the double downn-tube frames?
Was it 1965?

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Re: When did Maico go to double cradle-tube frames?
« Reply #1 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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