F.1 Factory engine option, as new Era dawns for Maico.

[Maico International]

As a new era dawns in the life of Maico, rigorous testing has been carried out on a wide selection of hand made products already hotly tipped to make it onto the spec sheet for the 2011 M.M.X.http://dirtywheelsmedia.co.uk/interactive/index.php?topic=131.0

[JETZcorp]

F1 factory engine, eh?  I hope that doesn't mean the new Maico will have a 24,000 RPM four-stroke in it. 

[Maico International]

F1 factory engine, eh?  I hope that doesn't mean the new Maico will have a 24,000 RPM four-stroke in it. 

Most definetly not.All we can say at the moment is that the factory engines will produce more horsepower and be lighter than the production motor.All the parts used in the factroy engine will fit the production model and be a permanantly available aftermarket purchase. 

[JETZcorp]

Sounds good to me.  Any idea what the F1 engine option would cost, or is that classified at this time?

[Maico International]

Sounds good to me.  Any idea what the F1 engine option would cost, or is that classified at this time?

Sorry jetz cannot release that information at this time, rest assured when we can, we will.

[miedosoracing]

Hope you guys get on the Direct Injection someday soon. 

[Maico International]

Hope you guys get on the Direct Injection someday soon. 

Hi,
   This is something we are keeping a close eye on,and we would certainly not exclude it from the future plans.

[eprovenzano]

How soon before we see them at a dealer's location? I know there is a lot of hoops to jump through, and red tape to unwind, but inquiring minds would like to know when they will be available...

[Maico International]

How soon before we see them at a dealer's location? I know there is a lot of hoops to jump through, and red tape to unwind, but inquiring minds would like to know when they will be available...

Thanks for the interest,it has been a very long and drawn out process and their is nobody dragging their heels on this one, it simply takes the time it takes for the American Government to do what they have to do.Its a three part process which has already been apporoved, we have official confirmation from the U.S.A. department that our distributor has been accepted but their are still two more parts to the process which are proceding.

[eprovenzano]

Thanks for the reply.  I'm sure it a long complicated process for import into the US.  Please keep us informed as to the status.

Again, thanks for the update.

[burn1986]

Yep, I think everyone is anticipating any info on these bikes, especially photos and race tests.

[ACMX]

I'm so stoked!

[Maico International]

As I am sure you can appreciate we are as enthusiastic to get the 2011 M.M.X. out into the public domain as you guys are.We have a verbal arrangement with the U.K.'s leading off road publictaion to provide them with excluisve pictures of the new bikes and we are planning our timing of the release of these pictures very carefully.

There are quite a few things we can mention but some we cannot, more news will be published very soon.

 

[2T Institute]

So what are the special bits and pieces I can buy? Cyinders? Ignition? Pipe? Crank? A tall first gear?

[opfermanmotors]

A tall first gear?

They have a tall first gear and primary ratio, at least the Open Class bikes have since 1985.  

Check out the bottom, the 1986 gear ratio and 2010 are high for the 500.  The 250s are generally same gearing but with different primary ratio.

http://www.vmxmag.com.au/03_news_events/vmx_Maico_490.html

I would like an option for enduro to lower primary ratio and 1st gear (mostly just lower 1st and 2nd ratios and keep the upper ratios higher for enduro)! since even they are still quite tall, at least from what I know of the 1986.
(i.e., Sand Spider is 2.36 1st gear ratio, but now the 1st gar ratio is 2.28 and with the sand spider the primary drive ratio was lower (2.13) than it is now, which is at 1.96 now.)