VERY deep pockets for Honda Lovers.

[KTM47]

MAICO's RULE

[TM BILL]

Amazing how a Honda bike thread turns into another Maico bashing thread. Haters be hatin' 

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  [/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.

Kevin
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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  ) 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

[KTM47]

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.

[firko]

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.