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Photos & Videos / Re: Ron Lechien with a 2dope on his ass!
« on: April 02, 2010, 04:44:40 PM »
Ran out of time? Were you on Monster Garage? 
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General Two Stroke Talk / Re: What is your favorite Dirtbike?
« on: April 02, 2010, 12:08:14 AM »
Really? The 82 I thought was too heavy and it was the first year water cooling. The 81 isnt water cooling so its eligible for evo class.
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General Two Stroke Talk / Re: What is your favorite Dirtbike?
« on: April 01, 2010, 09:53:54 PM »
Surprising, a lot of people actually liked the 1981 YZ250, its quite popular and wanted bike for vintage racing. The 81 is the 'wanted' year because there were apparently some changes to the thing.
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General Two Stroke Talk / Re: Honda Maico Holy Cow!
« on: April 01, 2010, 09:49:56 PM »
Haha, well, April Fools?
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General Two Stroke Talk / Honda Maico Holy Cow!
« on: April 01, 2010, 05:39:47 PM »
American Honda Acquires Small German Factory
March 30, 2010
American Honda formally announces the recent acquisition of Koestler-Maico Motorcycles, a small motorcycle factory in Germany. Koestler-Maico is owned and operated by Axel Koestler since 1999 and produces fifty motorcycles yearly. The company produces enduro, motocross and supermoto machinery out of their factory in Leverkusen, Germany. The brand has a long heritige in Germany which dates back to the 1930s. The original company Maicowerk AG filed for bankruptcy in the 1980s. American Honda is tight lipped on how the acquisition will affect future motorcycle production of Koestler-Maico.
About Honda
American Honda Motor Co., Inc. is the sole distributor of Honda motorcycles, scooters, ATVs and personal watercraft in the U.S. American Honda's Motorcycle Division conducts the sales, marketing, and operational activities for these products through authorized Honda dealers. For more information on Honda products, go to www.powersports.honda.com
Honda Powersports News
March 30, 2010
American Honda formally announces the recent acquisition of Koestler-Maico Motorcycles, a small motorcycle factory in Germany. Koestler-Maico is owned and operated by Axel Koestler since 1999 and produces fifty motorcycles yearly. The company produces enduro, motocross and supermoto machinery out of their factory in Leverkusen, Germany. The brand has a long heritige in Germany which dates back to the 1930s. The original company Maicowerk AG filed for bankruptcy in the 1980s. American Honda is tight lipped on how the acquisition will affect future motorcycle production of Koestler-Maico.
About Honda
American Honda Motor Co., Inc. is the sole distributor of Honda motorcycles, scooters, ATVs and personal watercraft in the U.S. American Honda's Motorcycle Division conducts the sales, marketing, and operational activities for these products through authorized Honda dealers. For more information on Honda products, go to www.powersports.honda.com
Honda Powersports News
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General Two Stroke Talk / Re: Project Two 50 Updates...
« on: March 31, 2010, 06:48:11 PM »MAICO - RIDE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!
I've ridden newer bikes, some of the suspenion is rather awkard really, kinda like riding on stilts. They make the bikes completely flat on top like a table, feels like you're going to go over the handle bars, then going over bumps it's like you are all over the place. Maybe not all bikes are like that but some are.
And all the new bikes, aside from the new Maico, look like utter shit. I'd never own one just because they don't have any kind of feel to them (with exception to the new Maico). I don't even find them flashy, I find them quite dull and the same. They all look like they were cloned out of the same mold and are ugly as hell. They have to put tons of stickers on them to make them look good at all. And sorry but AF frames look like utter crap to me, I hate that ugly ass piece of frame on the side.
Looking back at the older bikes, those bikes looked AWESOME. I mean the old huskies? The old Maicos? The old Hondas? The 80s Hondas were actually some of the best looking bikes! Then in the 90s, they said skrew it, here's some crappy ass looking machinery. They all lost character.
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General Two Stroke Talk / What is your favorite Dirtbike?
« on: March 31, 2010, 12:34:30 PM »What is your favorite dirtbike?
What is your favorite dirtbike? Post a comment and a picture, doesn't have to be one from the video nor one you own, just search online for a picture of it. Mine if the 1983 Maico 490 and there's already a picture of mine in the video.
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General Two Stroke Talk / Re: Racing and Engine Displacement
« on: March 31, 2010, 11:45:13 AM »"Expansion chambers were first designed by East German Walter KaadenWalter KaadenWalter Kaaden was a German engineer who improved the performance of two-stroke engines by understanding the role of resonance waves in the exhaust system. Working for the MZ Motorrad- und Zweiradwerk part of the Industrieverband Fahrzeugbau , he laid the foundations of the modern two-stroke engine during the cold warCold WarThe Cold War was the continuing state of political conflict, military tension, and economic competition existing after World War II , primarily between the USSR and its satellite states, and the powers of the Western world, including the United States.
They first appeared in the west on Japanese motorcycles after East German motorcycle racer Ernst Degner. Ernst Degner was a German Grand Prix motorcycle road racer defected to the west while racing for MZ (MZ Motorrad- und Zweiradwerk GmbH, a German motorcycle manufacturer) in the 1961 Swedish Grand Prix. He hid the blueprints under his racing leathers and defected during the race by riding off the track and claiming asylum. He did not finish the race. He later provided the blueprints to Japan's Suzuki."
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Photos & Videos / Re: Here is one
« on: March 29, 2010, 11:33:53 PM »
Forgetting just the powerband and even the gearing being slightly higher, the bike is 500 pounds heavier and 3 feet wider than the maico. You have the water cooling bullshit which adds it to be even more weight and wider. It would be a lot harder to balance the thing on that ledge, actually probably wouldn't have fit on that ledge. Plus harder to pull it up a wall like I did the Maico. Riding a CR500 you kind of realize you have a lot more limitations verse riding a Maico as the Maico can go anywhere, which is why I tried it in the first place.
Haha, I don't have a monopoly, JasonMcColi has like over doulbe the people watching his videos than I do. I don't have a husky to show tho
Haha, I don't have a monopoly, JasonMcColi has like over doulbe the people watching his videos than I do. I don't have a husky to show tho
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Photos & Videos / Re: Here is one
« on: March 29, 2010, 09:23:18 PM »1983 Maico 490 vs. 1992 Maico 500 vs. 1999 Maico 500
Maico Test
It should be stated that the displacement of the Maico physically did change to actual 500cc in the 1990s, before such time they were called "500" with the same displacement as the 1983 Maico 490.
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I will trade any Maicos for a Service Honda Big-Bore anytime! Even If Maico comes up with the coolest 500Cc ever with up to date alu spare frame, EFI...
Not me, I've got 3 Maico 490s and a 86 CR500 and a friend of mine has the last year (2001) CR 500. Have to say, Maico all the way the power is just so usable and the bike goes so good. Would never even want a service honda, the CR has a light switch power band essentially while the maico has a dial and you can turn that dial as fast or as slow as you want, you are in control. If I get stuck in the middle of a hill with a CR500, you got to start from the bottom because the tire just spins. With a Maico, you can just roll on the throttle and put put right up.
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General Two Stroke Talk / Re: Project Two 50 Updates...
« on: March 29, 2010, 09:13:26 PM »
If you want to go C2H6O2 Cooling, you can always bump up to a 84-86 MStar/Maico 250, essentially same thing as the 83 engine.
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General Two Stroke Talk / Re: I can feel a lawsuit comin' on
« on: March 29, 2010, 09:03:21 PM »
And this was sent out yesterday, my reply to this thing was essentially:
Ya, no relationship, infact that page looks like crap. It was registered in Feb 2009, and the page makes absolutely no sense. The wording is abosolutely terrible. "Quality is not an option" is their solgan?
"Maico Manufacturing & Port City Cycle a division of Maico"
These are chinese dirt bikes, even tho they say "made in the USA" on the page, they mean assembled.
That's the "zongshen" logo on their page, chinese dirt bikes.
If you go to "http://portcitycycle.com/" it's a "Divison of Maico Mfg". If you go to "Maico mfg. it's a divsion of Maico" but you can't find Maico.
I mean check out this sentence:
"THE MAICO LINE OF MINI MX DIRT BIKES ARE PURPOSE BUILT KIDS MINI DIRT BIKES OF A BETTER QUALITY THEN JUST SOME THROWN TOGETHER OVERSPRUNG RATTEL TRAP OF AN OIL LEAKIN' , NO STARTIN' PILE OF JUNK THAT COMES FROM SOME PIT OF A FACTORY IN WHO KNOWS WHERE."
If they are saying that, that is pretty much what they are actually making, oversprung rattel trap oil leaking no starting pile of junks made in a PIT factory from who knows where!
Looks like they are mixing in some Kawasaki and Honda parts onto their bikes as well, so nothing is made in the USA.
I also like this:
"00
FOR
OVER
25
YEARS.
MAICO
Kawasaki
MOTORCYCLE ACCESSORIES,
PERFORMANCE MOTORCYCLES,
&
PERFORMANCE PARTS FOR THE MOTORCYCLE ENTHUSIAST."
They are doing 00 for over 25 years, got to trust them!
Ya, no relationship, infact that page looks like crap. It was registered in Feb 2009, and the page makes absolutely no sense. The wording is abosolutely terrible. "Quality is not an option" is their solgan?
"Maico Manufacturing & Port City Cycle a division of Maico"
These are chinese dirt bikes, even tho they say "made in the USA" on the page, they mean assembled.
That's the "zongshen" logo on their page, chinese dirt bikes.
If you go to "http://portcitycycle.com/" it's a "Divison of Maico Mfg". If you go to "Maico mfg. it's a divsion of Maico" but you can't find Maico.
I mean check out this sentence:
"THE MAICO LINE OF MINI MX DIRT BIKES ARE PURPOSE BUILT KIDS MINI DIRT BIKES OF A BETTER QUALITY THEN JUST SOME THROWN TOGETHER OVERSPRUNG RATTEL TRAP OF AN OIL LEAKIN' , NO STARTIN' PILE OF JUNK THAT COMES FROM SOME PIT OF A FACTORY IN WHO KNOWS WHERE."
If they are saying that, that is pretty much what they are actually making, oversprung rattel trap oil leaking no starting pile of junks made in a PIT factory from who knows where!
Looks like they are mixing in some Kawasaki and Honda parts onto their bikes as well, so nothing is made in the USA.
I also like this:
"00
FOR
OVER
25
YEARS.
MAICO
Kawasaki
MOTORCYCLE ACCESSORIES,
PERFORMANCE MOTORCYCLES,
&
PERFORMANCE PARTS FOR THE MOTORCYCLE ENTHUSIAST."
They are doing 00 for over 25 years, got to trust them!