I was acquainted with a guy who got another 17-18 HP out of his 490 by porting it, modifying the exhaust pipe, putting another carb on it and a couple of other things I can't remember. I rode it once for about 10 minutes. It went like a bat out of hell. Scared the piss out of me the first couple of minutes, but it ended up being a lot of fun.

Maico still exist today. The Brand is owned by Otto Maischs Granddaughter and small amounts of Bikes are still produced untill today.

Macio killed Bultaco

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And Bulltoco where great bikes. I have one built by Gary Nixon and it's a blast to ride...

Thanks for sharing. Motocross (and BMX) were also a huge part of my youth, and like you, I wouldn't trade that time for anything.

This post made this entire video worth posting. Awesome memories for sure.

Yes I too raced MX in Florida in the 80s, racing on weekends is what we did, the only thing we did. It to was my funnest years of my life. I started off racing 80s and 125s, then made the crossover to ATCs racing 200Xs and then 250Rs until I couldn't race them anymore because of them being banned.

@@mr.naughtypants7069okay naughty pants, why the ban? I gotta know.

​@@lastlogicallibatc 3 wheelers got banned in America years ago. They were deemed to dangerous by the feds.

Hell, that story isn't even unusual for the German car industry at the time. There used to be looaads more German manufacturers of cars and motorcycles and each loss stings to this day. Borgward, Glas, NSU, Zündapp, Hercules, Kreidler, Horex... Not to mention the East-German manufacturers that built amazing products under their circumstances but were coldly liquidated after reunification: Sachsenring and Wartburg, MZ and Simson. Even if some of the names still exist in some form or other, they're just empty badges slapped onto something from China that didn't want to build its own brand. :/

its happening where i work, i do granite this little thing will give you an example of whats going on since old man richard gave the business to his two sons. they hire nothing but dumb teens that dont last. i seen that the reinforcement rods we put into the slabs was cut less than a inch from the edge instead of like 4 inches farther in it does nothing on the edge. i said why are we cutting this on the edge now i get told that boss man told them to do EVERY PIECE like that becuase since they cant get it right just do it like this instead THE WRONG WAY. basically they just said keep doing it wrong like you have been since you cant learn to do it right. WTF everything is turning into this no matter what i stay the same what i touch gets done right. my name is on the line not just the business the contractors are seeing it too they are coming to me personally and asking me to do their jobs BUT I CANT DO THEM ALL lol its contagious too cause good workers are doing crap work now cause they are like if they dont have to do things right and not get penalized then why do i have too.

@@petejones6827 Yeah, that's pretty sad.

I seen the same thing happen in a industrial painting company

I love capitalism , but huge portions means little profit . Quality products deter from future sails , trained to fail is the order of the day , even when it comes to the baby boomers kids , they're parents didn't even realize they had been programmed via they're military training to undermine they're own children . Some of us were smart enough to absorb the positives and deflect the negative lessons and traits we got basted with like thanx backstabbing turkeys ... Troll as they may , I ain't wrong ... My mom s second husband died riding with me on a 79 Husky 490 board over as he was a small engines instructor at Clover Park voc school Tacoma WA

Copy that! Had a 250 great bike.

Now you can buy MAICO again ! They restarted production

Typical German craftsmanship that's why I've been collecting antique BMWs for 45 years

@@kennethmartindale8771 wonderful! My friend just had send me a pic from his round the world tour of an old R80 with character of touring . One of my friends did round the world in 8 years 280.000 km with his R100 .

I had early 80s 490 in late 90s with no kickstart and it had so much compression I'd push it down a concrete hill to bomb it 3 or 4 times before I got it lol

I had a Maico 250 radial head . Handled like a dream. Didn’t have the greatest power but handled fantastic. Had a Yamaha IT. It hand a lot of power but could not get out of its own way.

I am wondering how Maico got the drum brakes to work so well. Takes no time at all to get up to speed, start braking half way to the next turn, to slow the WITCH back down

Yeah, sold my 440, got yz465, all those tracks in so cal deserts are mine! Have to get wheels rebuilt with better rims and spokes.

@@user-vd1uz3dj8l Nice buy, I'm a Yamaha guy myself. Love my Yamaha two strokes.

You mean until they break a hub and leave you paralyzed in the desert?

In the early 70's, when i was about 10, I got to ride my Dad's friends' Maico 501. Talk about power to weight..😅 RIP Norman Holloway.

I just saw a video of a brand new maico 700 two stroke. Enduro ish. Thing looked mean. Anyway they might still be making bikes

​@@TugIronChief😂😂😂really???

​@@TugIronChief the Japanese really have the entire world beat with how impressive their engineering is. Any mechanic who knows what they're talking about will tell you the easiest engines to work on all come from Japan, not to mention their ridiculously cheap parts cost.

Ever notice. Things before their time, never last.

Exactly, just like the Yamaha MX 125 and 250 that did not change in a decade because it was right from the start. Maico made the mistake of joining the pack by having a uni shock rear suspension!

@@TugIronChief Maybe but I like to think that a (PROUDLY NOT MADE IN JAPAN) sticker would help.

@@fredsnowden5375 Right, Drz 400 also comes to mind.

The mega e 490?

Magoo chandler loved it.

Macio? Maico?

@@jaycoppola4324 Macchiato.

@@shira_yone WOW!!!....THAT'S THE FUNNIEST THING THAT I'VE EVER HEARD,IN MY WHOLE LIFE! 🤔

@@jaycoppola4324 unfortunate.

@@shira_yone ??? You must be a full-time professional grocery bagger.

FYI this was passed down to the German descendants in America. Amazing how many farms and businesses are destroyed by greedy siblings.

Sometimes I find the _"prioritize family first, never sever ties"_ culture I grew up with to be a tad burdensome, but I'm glad it's nothing like... What you've described.

You ever seen blacks ?🤣🤣

If it works, leave it alone and don't change what's been proven to work. Great looking bike!

I raced enduro in the late 70’s early 80’s and remember a guy lining up on an 81’ Maico 490 we were all like wow look at that monster as I sat on my IT175(which I dearly loved) ride till ya can’t walk 🐾✌️🇺🇸

​​@@stoveboltlvr3798thats why i love the yamaha yz250 and laugh at all the ktm fanboys "but it has a cable clutch, and no electric start".. and blah blah blah, none of them can shake me on a yz250 thats IF they can pass me in the first place, they always break down when i keep on going too, new isn't always better if it aint broke don't fix it.

@@MDM1992 ....BS

I bought mine rebuilt from racer's father rebuilt, they worked. The parts were expensive & hard to get before the internet. Great bike for the time, new bikes are really state of the art, flat shifting shooting out rostertails of dirt. The controls were on xidfferent sides. Great times.

When I was a kid I had the opportunity to ride a cr490. I had a Bultaco 250 at the time. The guy said if I could start it I could ride it. Well, that didn't go so well. The Kickstarter kicked back so hard it dang near torn the sole off my shoe on the wat to my ankle bone then slapped the back side of my knee. I was over wanting to ride that cursed red monster. I'm 53 now and would love to have that bike. Not to ride , just to admire.

I have (still) an 82 YZ 490, and would drool over the Maico. There were very few dealers and they were so expensive!!!

I rode an 84 or 85 CR500 when I was a kid, what a beast. I might've been a 145lbs dripping wet, but I nailed the trottle & hung on. Didn't like jumping it though, felt like I was getting sucked back into the earth. Jumped back on my 125 with renewed confidence & wrung everything I could out of it with a new confidence, felt more like a toy after a few laps on the 500.

"when the kids took over" was the decade of the 1970s - That decade was Maico's golden era and in 1981 "the kids" delivered what many say was the greatest dirt bike ever - the twinshock Mega 490. As someone who owned an '82 at the time I still think the '82 and '83 bikes were even better.

Sometimes and in this case "the kids" took a steaming crap on the desk of their forefathers and took the company, to places that pops, could only have ever dreamed.

ukposts.info/have/v-deo/so-CnoCxpWicqZs.html Luxembourg August 1982: Twelve 490s in this GP. No shocks collapsed. No hubs or gearboxes "blew up". What's wrong with this picture?

You are only as good as the people working for you. You have to keep your employees happy and focused. This includes rewards for exemplary performance. As soon as any of that begins to erode it doesn’t take long for everything to crumble. Nowadays, the leadership makes it all about themselves and the workers routinely sabotage their supposed company. We have lost so much in recent decades.

Wasn't that left leg kick fun...? I had a Penton/KTM that had same thing. It was just odd.

That tiny front brake was probably one of the reasons you went so fast! 🤘

I had the 250 same year. Loved it. I had a yz250 prior. The Macio made the Yamaha feel like tinkertoy.

Once I was in my garage with all my buddy's and had just serviced my 81 490 for the day's ride. We were going to leave at 4 in the morning and head up to Phelan, in the High Desert of SoCal. All packed and loaded except me...but no biggie cuz it was still daylight and plenty of fun to still be had that night. I stood on a crate to get leverage on the left side of my Maico, choked , then "tickled" that huge Bing carb. Slowly pre-loaded the kick starter to max stroke... then rose up to give it one fully powerful & committed kick. The kick back was powerful, it threw me on top of my workbench 3 feet to my side, put my knee into my mouth causing a tooth come thru 1/2 inch below my bottom lip, and damn near knocked me out. The bike was being held up with tie downs that were coming down from the rafters, to the bars...the only reason the bike itself remained secured in an upright position. After getting my head clear, and everyone laughing are butts off for a long time I looked at the Maico. The kick-starter was gone. Which got everyone cracking up again, uncontrollably. Looking around as thoroughly as we could with that many beers in us...nobody could find it. It was gone. "That's impossible, it's gotta be here somewhere" a friend said while I was holding ice from the cooler to my face and bleeding like a stuck pig...while laughing. My friend Bill was on all fours between my bike and the workbench thinking it shot under there...when he noticed a a spot of daylight on the concrete. He looked up and dropped the "F-Bomp"..."No Fu£!n' way" he said. None of us got it. "Guy's, c'mere and look at this." We did...he pointed down to show us the spot of light, then up to a hole in my old shop roof...with my kickstarter punched thru it. Granted...it was an old, very old roof. Built in 1910 and very brittle from the SoCal heat over the years...but Jeeeeezuz. We got a ladder and pulled it out easily. Put it back on my bike, the tack welded it it in two spots. Never had that to worry about again. From that point on...I bump started it every chance I had. 3rd gear, a few steps, easily done. 1st gear...no way,

@@ragtie6177 👍cool story

Cant get a girl with missing teeth and broken neck. Sometimes we gotta know when to quit while ahead. Buy it ride it a while and sell it before it blows up.

The compression release save my life on multiple occasions !:👇🤠

The Maico 400 had insane power.

Mate had a 80’s 500 probably the 490, left hand kicker. The kick back was a b1tch, proper leg breaker. 😂

hahaha yea those bikes were some dangerous kickbacks !

thank you for watching it

I heard they will build you whatever bike you want

@@BornAGoon as long as its a 500, 620 or 700....no more 250,320,380..parts are drying up

They can readily build all the way down to the 440 I believe, and you can get replacement/maintenance parts for the smaller ones. But no complete smallbore bikes.

I used to do this at our old family farm.

With a legal maximum speed of 55mph, did the people on the highway know they were involved in a race with your brother ?

@@CaptHollister of course they did.

Ha-ha-ha-haha.... imagine doing that with an old BMW 500 cc[R-51/3] from '52.... a 30 yrs old at time bike.... and playing them around just like the scenes from some movie we saw on the video... years after I had a chance to even talk to them about it... lol, time had passed so it was ok..... never a dull moment on a bike...

Don't forget, today it is almost impossible to learn history accurately.

@@karlwithak. You sound vaccinated.

Remember the ktm 495?

@@timhoovermusicman the maico 490 looked bad ass

Ha! Was just going to post the same exact story. I had a CR-125 and a CR-250. My buddy had a Maico and that thing was a beast. It was scary as hell. I was comfortable on my 250 and would rip it up on any day of the week. I rode that Maico for all of 10 minutes and decided I like my Honda ;)

@@timhoovermusicman I've never ridden on any KTMs everyone tells me they're great bikes. my dad was a Honda and Suzuki guy that's all we ever had. The 490 I rode belonged to my cousin. I loved my old CR 250 and my dad had a CR 500 I rode a lot both were 1986 models if I remember correctly. I don't have any bikes now but the last bike I had was a 2004 crf 450. We never did any formal racing but that CR 500 was king of the beach for a few summers drag racing out at Appalachia Bay at keystone lake in Oklahoma. Nobody out there had a faster bike for a long time.

@@blitzzbob5643 my friend had a CR500 late 80's... They were mighty machines for sure.

Thank you very much Glad you took the tie to watch it

I also grew up with those Maicos. My friend was a sponsored Maico 250 racer in the 70’s. He would win his race and pull a long celebratory wheely after he crossed the finish line like the stud he was that was amazing at the time! That’s why I still love riding today!

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Same here. Carlos Serrano was a factory rider for Maico in the early 80’s and of course he was highly talented, but when he was in town he would lap the local pros on his bike. At the time I thought the RM’s CRs YZ’s and KX ‘s had supremacy over the European bikes as locally you never saw anyone on anything else but the big four.

@@PauloBerni699 Maico was mostly an open class bike. Their 400 and 450 were the popular bikes. I don't think I ever saw a 250 and although they made a 125 I never saw one outside of the dealership. I never understood why the 250 wasn't popular.

the works Maico team were the first to put the shocks half way down the swingarm to get more travel the Japanese were watching

@@timmayeaux2743 We were copying the Maico style and moving our shocks up on whatever we had. It worked too. I had a DKW Hornet at the time.

Baby boomers ruined everything

@@johnnybgood774 Johnny Be Good now. :)

@@johnnybgood774 still at it, today

@@wvadventurer all in fun my friend. Have a good day.

When I was racing a 1973 SC 500 Yamaha ( light switch) we called the 501 the clod flogger.

I did too Bruce. I rode a Maico 250 and an Elsinore 125.

Those places were legendary for the sport. I remember reading about them in TN. Thanks for your spirit and loyalty to the sport and commenting.

Brad Lackey and Larry Roeseler, My two motorcycle heroes. I grew up in southern and then northern Ca. I remember watching Larry as a kid wheelieing all the way down Tangelo Ave and back in Bloomington, Ca. I knew then that he was gonna be great.

Bad Brad, my favorite open classer. Also the first to win the championship with the Simons inverted fork, I believe.

Yeah, I remember reading an article about all the mods he and his mechanic had to do to the Suzuki in order to win the championship. It was no longer a true factory Suzuki, kinda a bastard itself. Ha Ha. @@BastardX13

thanks for taking the time to watch the video and comment

Welcome aboard!

Earlier in my MX days of 1960's-70's, the CZ was the bike to have... never heard much about Maico except for magazine ads... CZ World Champion Joel Robert was eventually bought away by Suzuki... #1 Robert on CZ and #2 John Banks on BSA rode in TransAm here at the Delta, N.W. Ohio, USA MX track... that track was also faked into the TransAm movie... just a Delta, Ohio sign stuck into a desert somewhere with Rocky Mountains in background... LOL! When Cycle Magazine started dynoing motorcycles around 1970 and we discovered a hundred old brands like Bultaco didn't make any power, that killed them off... I test rode a Yamaha 250 but decided I wanted a tad more, was used to a 350cc 4 gears minibike, and waited and bought one of the first Yamaha 360's in Summer 1970... sold it fall '70 to an Army Captain just returned from Vietnam and then flew off to Vietnam myself... later got a Honda 175 Scrambler... '74 Ducati 450 Scrambler... Ducati 750... Yamaha 650... Honda 305 Scrambler... Kawa 440... Suzuki 805 Intruder... (earlier a Cushman Eagle, 125cc Sachs, and Suzuki 250 X6 Hustler)

And Jim west

Don't forget Jim west.

​@@BuzzLOLOLWow, interesting life so far! My older brother bought a used Sears(!) 250 around '70, always with the jokes his friends were, but I believe it was actually a Sachs or maybe a Puch with Sears badging, you might know, huh? Awkward riding position and funky controls, but it ran pretty good, haha. Cheers 🛵

@@carlsaganlives5112 - Likely a Puch 'twingle' with one oval piston on two connecting rods...

Buddy had one, he would break out at keg parties. It would bite the brave , every time.

Was what they called the 440 magnum that bike was brutal ha ha !!!

@@jerrywatt6813 It was pretty much how You’d imagine sticking dynamite down your trousers might go. I can’t honestly remember exactly what year it was, but either ‘74 or’77 springs to mind. Twin shock, drum front & rear, unpainted aluminium coffin shaped tank, 4spd. Can’t remember much else, except that every time I started it I wondered exactly how brutally it would try to assault me today. Fact is, it was so way beyond my abilities to do it justice that it was a nonsense for me to ride it. I was young and daft though and I thought a gas can full of adrenaline and fear was a positive path to follow. Got smarter later on and hey! I survived it.

Did the kickstart lever travel come to an abrupt stop on the left footpeg by design? Like my Bultaco Pursang 350🤬

I had one and I loved it

@@davidkeeton6716 Not that I remember, but it stripped the kickstart pinion teeth off a couple of times. It had a ton of compression and probably a fair amount of advance at zero rpm. Made it a bit of a tricky thing to avoid the occasional kickback. That hurt too. I wasn’t exactly a giant when I was younger, more a racing snake with not much mass, talent or knowledge. God, that bike was awesome.

Nice thanks for watching and commenting

👍🏼well said…and thanks for adding memory of those old brands.

Yeah, earlier in my MX days of 1960's-70's, the CZ was the bike to have... never heard much about Maico except for magazine ads... CZ World Champion Joel Robert was eventually bought away by Suzuki... #1 Robert on CZ and #2 John Banks on BSA rode in TransAm here at the Delta, N.W. Ohio, USA MX track... I'll never forget watching them... that track was also faked into the TransAm movie... just a Delta, Ohio sign stuck into a desert somewhere with Rocky Mountains in background... LOL! When Cycle Magazine started dynoing motorcycles around 1970 and we discovered a hundred old brands like Bultaco and Montessa didn't make any power, that killed them off... I test rode a Yamaha 250 but decided I wanted a tad more, was used to a Jawa 350cc 4 gears powered minibike, and waited and bought one of the first Yamaha 360's in Summer 1970... sold it fall '70 to an Army Captain just returned from Vietnam and then flew off to Vietnam myself... later got a Honda 175 Scrambler... '74 Ducati 450 Scrambler... Ducati 750... Yamaha 650... Honda 305 Scrambler... Kawa 440... Suzuki 805 Intruder... (earlier a Cushman Eagle, 125cc Sachs, and Suzuki 250 X6 Hustler)

Wasnt Gilera and Husaberg the most exotic? I always thought Maico was cheap 😅

@@dpayne8611 no Maico were always more expensive as I remember from 1970 on. Maico's also requires more maintenance by someone that knew the brand and parts cost more than Japanese bikes.

thank you for visiting the channel and commenting on the video

@@BornAGoon Thank you Mr Goon! You're a Bloody Decent Film Maker & Narrator - I love your work!! All the best in growing the channel - I'll pass on the word to all my Biking Buddies🤍🇦🇺👍

@@BornAGoon Are you a bot?

Thank you for watching it

I bought a 490 Alpha 1. Had it for 8 years. No one wanted to buy it because it was 'too fast, too dangerous'

Thank you for watching jacquiroga

No one ever thinks it'll be too powerful... Their ego won't let them, doesn't matter if its a local pro or weekend warrior, usually it's the weekend warrior.. That's why people buy 450s even though they can't utilize all the power of a 250F. They feel much heavier than what the scale says due to more rotating mass, they're less stable trying to actually charge on them, and while the power can get you out if trouble, especially when you're a fast B or A rider, majority of times it gets people into trouble. I race A class, and I prefer either a 250F or 350F if i want to be lazier, its powerful enough to ride like a 450, or you can charge on it like a 250F... less rotating mass makes all the difference in the world and it allows the suspension and chassis to work properly. If you're a guy like Jett Lawrence, running a tall gear, lugging the bike, and using momentum on a detuned 450, then that allows you to be lighter on the bike and frees up the suspension rather than binding it up, and they cab be easier to ride... but most guys aren't like Jett, most guys are like, Barcia for example who tries riding it like it's a 125 and bouncing the limiter. Even pros detune 450s to make them more rideable... if you can jump a long supercross rhythm in 2 jumps, it's too much, and 450s have outgrown the stadiums... trying to be that precise on something that powerful, especially when you're tired, it's dangerous. I wish every company built 350s and raced that as the premiere class, doing away with the 450.

@@yamahakid450f That is funny because my trail riding experience has been totally the opposite. People buy a 250F because they want a light nimble bike for tight woods trail riding then they spend money on loud pipes, higher compression pistons, air filters, etc. trying to wake it up. I have a Husqvarna TE510 and it is perfect for casual trail riding.

Where did you grow up?

​@@clarkstonguy1065250f is underpowered

​@@yamahakid450f while that is *usually* the case, I do remember the first time I took my brother's KZ400A out onto the road after puttering about on my GN125. There was a distinct moment where I was like "i've only rode this in first gear on the field.... I am about to die" and ended up chickening out before getting into third. I eventually got a LOT more comfortable with bikes, but still haven't been over 60 on one by myself. I've never ridden an actual dirtbike, though, so maybe the audience for those is just a lot more gung-ho about it. The dirtbikes I saw around town back in the day where all stupidly fast though (the guy with a DR125, basically the same engine block as my streetbike, could easily overtook me). So I can see your point on 450s being downright impractical. One of the guys had a 600 I think it was, and that would pull away from me in 5th gear like I was standing still. The guys out there would have let me try one, but my short butt couldn't swing a leg over any of them (I was a larger, less nimble man in my youth). A 450 would likely be unsafe for me regardless of how I rode it, because your've got to be able to reach the ground with toes at least...

thank you for watching it

@klinestill I think the criticism was against the video's title. After all, it does say: "...the most evil motorcycle brand..."

​@klinestill Project much. SMFH.

The 490 sand spider? My buddy Rob was killed on his on the Oregon dunes. He held it wide open and launched off a ridgeback dune and flew like an out of control eagle. He was estimated up 60 feet and didn’t touch ground for 190 feet crashing to the ground breaking almost every bone in his body. He bled out internally in seconds. But he did it on the bike he saved up for and was so excited to get.

​@@vf12497439things happen. People sometimes don't know when to call it quits. Not placing blame but he should've known what was ahead. And if he didn't know and couldn't scout it out before hand. He shouldn't have been going balls to the walls.

@klinestill You may want to pay a tiny bit of attention to the difference between being a helpful internet citizen and a snarky sarcastic ass.

thank you for watching Gunner

Yea almost just like that Feud

When KTM's came out people really resented this start up company and how dare they make something so much better than the crap we were riding. Same people who didn't know Austria was a country, pretty sad.

@@dicksonfranssen My 2003 EXC450 is the best bike ever for the time.

@@jasonwooden I don't doubt that at all. I got out of dirt bikes when there was just no place to ride anymore without speed limits and rangers with radar guns. That took all the fun out of it for me.

@@dicksonfranssen Rangers with radar guns? Where do you live? I’ve never heard of such any state out West.

those were the days of violent machines

......I loved the Kawi triple 750 , but I wrecked on it . Lol ..... it was my asshole brother in laws ! Lol .

Glad you enjoyed it!

thanks for watching the video

Was it as bad as the 490? How did it fare in 1982 against the water cooled rockets from Japan?

@@j.albertogratacos2076 No breakdowns, but the water cooled bikes blew past me and they obviously had better suspension.

Thank you for the kind words and the comment

Glad you like them!

Glad you enjoyed it!

thank you

The Hodaka Combat Wombat, best name ever for a bike! We used to call Puch "puke" because you could never get parts and when you did you'd have to open your wallet very wide.

Hodaka 100 , stainless tank. Had one of those money pits.

@@mattfetter4123 Stainless steel is expensive, hard to bend, weld and and heavy. What idiot made that choice? My CanAm125 had the first street legal plastic tank, a real rocket until the Bosch ignition kept crapping out every month. Now they're making electric dirt bikes, not in my future plans.

....... I had a 250 BSA Victor . It had a 72 tooth back sprocket! Had a Norton Camando 500 . Indian motorcycles too .

Glad you enjoyed it!

Sounds like someone from eastern Washington?

@@aquasaltyfishing4933 I am from Spokane, but I lived in Bellevue WA. when I had the bike. My brother still lives in Spokane. Do you know him? His name is Don. Took me a minute. Yes, Cle Elum is in Eastern WA.

@@denniscliff2071 No i Dont know him

the first and scariest suzuki tm 400 came out in 71, it was the only tm 400 that was orange with a 4 speed gearbox, the insanely explosive powerband combined with the 4 speed is what made the first tm 400 such a handful to control.........

@@abruptlybluntVery cool. My first bike was a mid 70s TM 125. It came in a box, completely disassembled. I had to assemble it myself with help from only those 3rd party manuals. Good times.

I bought a RM 400 in the early 80s that needed a top end after I rebuilt it and rode it 3 times I had to sell it, too much for me

Remember cz seize easy?

Glad you enjoyed it!

Glad you liked it!

Awesome, thank you!

wow what a story

What an interesting story. Great move on your part. I hope it works out well for you. In my personal experience, families are not harmonious entities, and should not be the basis for a business. And you cannot evangelise facts or the truth. The last three years has highlighted just how ridiculous the vast majority of people truly are. With now one close long time family friend, and five members of my extended family now dead after participating in the ‘safe and effective’ chemistry experiments, four within days of their first or second jabs, and a very fit and active cousin admitted to hospital for emergency surgery, the empirical evidence supports everything I learned from my own research. Yet I’m still ostracised and called a ‘conspiracy theorist’ for figuring out in 2020 and 2021 what the mainstream media is only now beginning to report. You can’t help stupid. Peace

@@G58 Bravo! Similar family tragedies with them partaking in a genocidal medical crime you mentioned. The chickens are coming home to roost with a vengeance.... The gov and controlled media are like "nothing to see here...".

@@G58 so so so correct.... may a higher power help us all...........

@@themightyintercept6572 We need to help ourselves. One of humanity’s biggest problems is dependence upon myths, fairytales and other lies. Most people actually prefer fiction to fact, lies to the truth, and when confronted with the beauty of nature, try ascribing it to a mythological entitled for which they have zero evidence! Many even compare a wooded area to Narnia or something out of Tolkien - substitute myths. Sorry, but since 9/11 I’ve spent a lot of time reevaluating everything I once held to be true, and studying the situation of tax, debt and mental slavery in which we exist. It’s our fault for allowing this to happen to us. We look up to others to save us - rather than take responsibility for our own situations. Peace