price rise in the states /maico 490

[paul]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Maico-490-Vintage-Motocross-AHRMA_W0QQitemZ120499295245QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_motorcycles?hash=item1c0e51540d

[paul]

mick check your email

[Mick D]

mick check your email

[oldfart]

Paul, storm season is just around the corner .....then you will be all cashed up 

[paul]

it,s here already   but i wont be spending it on that
http://ozvmx.com/community/index.php?topic=10765.0

[firko]

That's the first American Maico I've seen with a Yamaha rod conversion. I've been using Yamaha rod and big end bearing for 20 years and so have most of the old time Maico guys. The Yanks are slow to catch on.

[East Coast Maico]

Hi, Its a friends bike..Make a offer..
Bill

[motomaniac]

That's the first American Maico I've seen with a Yamaha rod conversion. I've been using Yamaha rod and big end bearing for 20 years and so have most of the old time Maico guys. The Yanks are slow to catch on.

Whats the benefit of the yz rod? I heard of cr rods being used also.

[firko]

It's not so much that the rod is better, it's that the big end bearing being much, much better. The rod is 2mm wider and 1mm longer (on a 250, I haven't done a 490). You need to machine 1mm from the inner flange of each flywheel and use a thicker base gasket to allow for the different rod dimensions. The Yamaha YZ J rod kit is also shitloads cheaper, or at least it was back in the 90s when I last did the conversion. Because of the machining of the flywheels, you can't go back to a Maico rod later on. You're stuck with a Yammy rod for life but so what? The Yamaha rod/big end in my 350 lasted from 1992 to 2009...not bad.

[Marc.com]

Cool black rims and alloy swingarm, just the way God intended them.

[maicoman]

Does the YZ rod kit only fit the 81 490 era or will it fit other models as mine is a 84 model