Two Stroke Motocross
Two Stroke Motocross Forum => Photos & Videos => Topic started by: ford832 on February 15, 2011, 03:59:10 AM
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...and had to have a Maico(for some odd reason),I like this.My first street bike was a Kawi triple so I expect bottom end in tight woods would be nothing great but once you got it wound up-woo,hoo 8)
Kawamaico (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkLopRCnQWU#)
Part 2
Kawamaico2 0002 wmf (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma0sN_vjSGw#)
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Now thats Frankenstein's monster
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WFT??!! Thats nutz!!!
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Somewhere in the world there is a flat track just crying out for that bike. :P
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Having ridden Kaw triples as a kid I can imagine the noise and vibration of that machine would be pretty intense.
I can see that efforts to Maicoize Ford are slowly starting to bear fruit. ;D
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Don't get too excited,I could fire a Kawi triple engine in a wheelbarrow chassis and still have fun with it-and probably go faster and handle better than that one too :D
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Yeah, I don't suspect that one would handle so well. Although it's in the excellent 1981 frame (despite a few other styling cues which make it look much older) the Maicos were really dependent on their engines for handling. I've read that people tried putting Japanese engines in their Maico frames, thinking they'd create something amazing, and found that their handling was all shot. Maico engines were just so different from the others (I believe they spun backwards, until 1983 if I'm remembering correctly) that the rest of the bike was built around the engine doing the things it did. It'd be like if you put a small-block in the back of a 911, I suspect it would be radically different to drive (beyond the obvious weight and power issues) simply because of the dynamics of the engine-chassis interaction.
That said, I pity the fool that challenges this thing in the quarter-mile, especially if it's tuned properly.
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I noticed the builder of the bike adheres to Jetz's principle on exhaust silencing. :-X