“This post is going to add to the long time debate about the Maico frame, Is it real or just a modified Maico frame with the LTR GP specs.”He should be wiser than to fall for such an easy entrapment, even the audience knows it’s a trap, they scream out, “No, No, stay away, don’t fall for it”
But like a moth to a flame he naively enters the dark forces of another eternal Maico frame debate.Maico had at least 2 types of shock mounts for the 74 LTR model.
One style had pressed style shock mounts with the obligatory weight saving holes in them, these mostly seemed to end up in the USA.
The other style, which you have, is typical of what mostly turned up in Aust.
For the most part what you have looks original, the gussets on the swingarm look right, they even have the little recess to allow the shock to clear the gusset.
The outer shock gussets on the frame look right as well, they even have that little tiny corner gusset at the front of the outer mounts.
But the inner shock mounts on the frame don’t look right.
Yours are flat, and they look thicker than normal.
They usually have 2 bends in them and should be around 2mm thick, yours look more like 3mm thick. The outer mounts look right at around 2mm thick.
Also the rear airbox mount. Normally I have seen them as a piece of angle welded into the top corner of the tubes, yours seems to be a piece of flat welded lower down.
You can just see the end of the angle air box support in front of the shock mount tubes and under the seat rail.
My repair kit for the 74 GP frame, shows the bends in the rear gussets
