Well, the KR250 is now mine. I know, I know, I wasn't going to buy any more bikes until I cleared up the project backlog and sold off a few bikes but this is one of those bikes that only come along once or twice in a lifetime. The KR250 would be right up there as probably the rarest of all race Maicos. It's an early Christmas pressy to myself
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. Not much has been written about them (
in English anyway) but what I do know is that they were originally built for European Motoball in the late 50's/early 60's and that somebody in the US figured that the geometry would make them a pretty good little short tracker so, with a few changes the KR short tracker was born. It's not known exactly how many got to be built for flat track but with only a couple of hundred being built in total (and one would presume the majority were the Motoball model), the seller and I reckon it'd be less than twenty. This bike was bought by the sellers son as a project in 1976 and used briefly before going into storage until last week. The engine and frame numbers are matching (Frame vin# 240065 Motor No.# 240065) and it's all there except for the original pipe and carby. It should be a fairly straightforward restoration and I've got my contact in Sweden already on the lookout for a pipe, decent tank and whatever parts he can find.
Ironically despite my current Yamha fetish and vow not to buy any more bikes for a while, I'd been sniffing around a couple of 501 Maicos that had been uncovered but the owner unfortunately thinks he's sitting on a gold mine and knocked back my generous offer. This Maico more than makes up for the disappointment of not getting the 501's. I'd been quietly looking for a Sonic rigid frame for one of my DT1 engines but this bikes frame is so close to the Sonic style I won't need to build a DT1 to get my rigid frame jollies off now
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