That Maico sounds incredible. This machine is only going up in value. A true masterpiece.

Love the old Maico had a good friend who had a 400 . If you did not pull the decompression lever you would NEVER be able to kick start the beast . I think I can smell the Castrol R . One quart to 5 gallons of high test and you got a weekend of fuel .

Awesome maico guys. Probably the finest example I've ever seen or heard.

That bike is almost 40 years old, and still holds up easily in the styling department.. Looks like a Spaceship... Irreplaceable - and Kenny still can't help doing technicals between trees on the side of the grass lot.. Haha... ✔️

Both those Maicos look and sound so incredible ! They are runners ! Beautiful ! Love the modern footpegs

I'm a simple man I see a maico machine and kaplin America I click.🤙👌👌

one of my buddies have the 250 that had the front and rear tail lights for doing Turkey Run rides in New England. OMG ... it was insanely smooth through the woods.

love the looks of the old maicos i think i would put those hoosiers on everything

I had the same year maico 250 unbelievably great bike very fast handled great and super reliable you just got to keep an eye on the primary chain in the gearbox. Wish I still had it

Cool bike! You have newer and better Maicos. I grew up watching Maicos from the seventies. You could smell them go by since castor bean oil was the premix oil of choice. I was lucky having a dad who raced MX and TT and Desert racing. from about 1969 through 1979. Husqvarna and Yamahas were what we used. Now bikes are crazy priced, I don't know one person who owns one. I figure around 1980 was about the best time for dirt bikes, a decent amount of power and suspension travel and affordable. Air-cooled and easy to work on.

Hey Mr.Kaplan 👋 all love and respect sir!!! Ofcourse I bow to you sir for real, and I hope you know that Mr.Kaplan 💯!!!!! Just want to let you know dude in my area on offer up up had one brand new little Honda 50!! was like a 1974 it was mint!!! I don't know if it. He actually had 2 but sir I thought of you!!! You buy and have classy shit like that!!!!! Hope the fams doing well and everybody's safe my friend Thank you Sir

Master piece brother

L'ho avuta anch'io negli anni 70, gran moto veramente !!!!

what a georgus bike,sounds amazing

Hearing a *berm-flattener.* This is music!

i would love to show you guys my collection especially my maico mc440 with the 490 motor . watching your shows every single day here in Scotland me and the lads. we seem to watch the ones about the maicos over and over again lol ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Sweet bike. Always liked them

Nice like the way the rear end sits down power to ground

Wow beautiful bike sounds great 👍

theres a motorcycle boneyard here in arizona, im going there with a few friends next week to look for a few of these bikes, they have like 14,000 bikes in their inventory, i went there 3 years ago and and picked up a 83 montessa cota 349 for 25 bucks, redone it and i ride it all over. i didnt totally restore it let just say i got it running and working great., i remember seeing a few of these there. im originally from ct, and raced motocross at southwick ma when i was between 12-16 i had a honda xr-75 and a honda elsnore 125 later on. just so you know, back in the early 70's the xr-75 couldnt really keep up with the yamaha and kawasaki 80's two strokes, so we changed the gear ratio to compensate, if i remember i think the xr-75's had a 8 tooth gear on transmission and a 36t sprocket, we put a 10t/ 39t on them and they were pretty fast on big tracks but on a shorter 1/2 mile track we left the 10t on trans and dropped the sprocket to a 34t . but in 1972 they outlawed the gear changing cause the 2 stroke guys were bitchin. "shoe on other foot". so we we had to use stock gears. but alot of us did cheat and run hotter gas, my dad was a tool and die maker and he brought the carb to work and modified it somehow cause in the open class race i was keeping up with elsnores, im 66 years old and i can still blast these bikes around like a 30 year old.

I have never rode one but you would see them at the tracks back I the 70s. I always thought they were cool.

“ if u wanna see a young gun ride it” Lol!

awesome

short bus wanted to drag race. much respect

Unicorn...sweet bike..

When motorbikes were still beautiful then water cooled engines killed the beauty.

As long as looping Larry doesn't ride it....

Imagine how it would sound with a FMF🤭🤤

Named after a very dangerous shark .The bike has probably hurt more humans than the shark

My dad this bike , the sound is of a 4 strorke

Die habe ich früher auch gefahren. Von mir aus hätte die Entwicklung seither stehen bleiben können.

Its West Virginia those were my dads bikes

Had the exact same bike . Couldn’t keep a oil seal in it

Rick is from West Virginia not Virginia lol he is my dad

How far are you guys from Springfield mass ?

How much for the bike

Is that a yankee saying to haul the mail. It's not exactly what we equate to speed down south. Maybe "The seat is as soggy as the mail".