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Offline KTM47

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Re: VERY deep pockets for Honda Lovers.
« Reply #60 on: January 25, 2014, 11:10:39 am »
MAICO's RULE
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MAICOS RULE DESPITE THE FOOLS

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Re: VERY deep pockets for Honda Lovers.
« Reply #61 on: January 25, 2014, 11:19:54 am »
Amazing how a Honda bike thread turns into another Maico bashing thread. Haters be hatin'  ;D


Yes that's a great photo Brad but you know what I'm going to say.  All Maicos should be red

Bill now I understand why you are so anti Maico

I actually like Maico as a brand, and the 77 AW and 79 magnum models are in my top ten favorite bikes list  :)
Its all the hype and inflated prices of the 81 490s that i will never understand  :-\ maybe im just pissed off that i took 2 running examples to the scrap yard in 1988  ;D [/quote]

Of course in 1988 no one knew how popular they would become.  I have had two 490s a GS and a MX.  I paid $2,000.00 and $2,500.00 for them.  I've still got the MXers.  It even has a reed valve barrel.

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True story  ::) I was living back in the UK at the time and racing modern and the odd pre 65/ pre 75 sidecar meeting . I took the Maicos in on a deal ( was dealing all sorts back then , wanna buy a Rolex mister  ;D ) my oldest was only a baby and could see no real use for these old Maicos . I probably listed them in the Loot magazine ( trade and exchange type weekly ) and got no response, and I don't think even the bike wrecker wanted them , so they went to Jordans scrap metal in Portsmouth  ::) along with a VW Kombi and some other scrap .
I think one was a 400 and one or 490

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Re: VERY deep pockets for Honda Lovers.
« Reply #62 on: January 25, 2014, 05:55:37 pm »
Bill it one of the things in life, we would all love to have some decisions over again. 

I bet you're not the only one who threw things away that you regret now.

I bought a Road Race bike once (1972 TZ Yamaha I think)  A guy had put a Maico 490 motor in the rolling chassis.  I bought it for the motor and bits of a 2nd engine.  I think I paid about $1,000.00.  Anyway I bought it for the Maico motor and bits.

I sold the rolling chassis for about $500.00.  Really the alloy tank and seat where probably worth twice that.

Also the motor had been ported.  It really was a fast 490.
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Re: VERY deep pockets for Honda Lovers.
« Reply #63 on: January 25, 2014, 09:32:59 pm »
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I bet you're not the only one who threw things away that you regret now
Back in the early 90's I bought a nickel plated frame & mono swingarm at a swapmeet that some doobie had fitted (or tried to fit) a Kawasaki 500 triple into and had failed miserably. I wasn't sure what it was, it'd been to hell and back with both road rash and butcher engineering and everyone I asked had a different opinion. Eventually I swapped it for something or other, I really can't remember but what I do remember is running into the bloke a year later and him telling me it was a genuine Nico Bakker TZ350 frame that he got Laurie Alderton to fix. Apparently he sold it for many, many times what I paid and later got for it.
'68 Yamaha DT1 enduro, '69 Yamaha 'DT1 from Hell' '69 DT1'Dunger from Hell, '69 Cheney Yamaha 360, 70 Maico 350 (2 off), '68 Hindall Ducati 250, Hindall RT2MX, Hindall YZ250a , Cycle Factory RT2MX flat tracker, Yamaha 1T250J, Maico 250 trials, '71, Boyd and Stellings TM400, Shell OW72,750 Yamaha