The bike reminds me of the bike my old mate Legless Rob built in Yakapari, near Mackay, North Queensland 15 years ago. He started with a basket case '75 250 with a blown gearbox and a T120 650 Triumph engine. Back then in the era prior to the introduction of the pre '78 and Evo classes a '75 Maico was worth virtually nothing as very few of the parts could be used on a pre '75 bike. Rob had been beach racing both a stripped down Triumph Bonneville and his pre '75 VMX Maicos so in a beer infused brainwave formulated in the bar of the Leap Hotel, he decided to build the 'Trico' by fitting the Trumpy engine to the Maico frame. It took a fair bit of cutting, shutting and welding, (
some of which I did while on holiday up there in the tropics), but in the end the bike proved to be a formidable weapon on the beach flats and dirt tracks of FNQ. Rob subsequently lost a leg in a road accident which prevented any further racing on the bike. It was sold and disappeared from sight until it was photographed at a NSW bush dirt track meeting a couple of years ago. As plug ugly and politically incorrect as the bike may be, I'm glad it still exists.
