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Best Vintage Race bike you actually owned
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[QUOTE="markthomps, post: 21743, member: 18626"] Ohhhh man, this is tough! I know Mike Zimmerman wants me to nominate the '74 KX450 (the check for the bribe hasn't cleared yet, Mike . . .) so I'm going to go with the second race bike I ever had. A 73 Maico square barrel 250! Bought it new with the usual cobby fiberglass, in bright orange. Spent at least one off-season repainting all the fiberglass bright blue with white stripes, for reasons that I now can't remember (well, hell it looked cool back then). Sweet motor, if down on power to a Husky or later the Elsinore's, but you could do no wrong on this bike! Among the lessons it taught me was that I was a decent rider who had been riding crap before I had the sense to get a Maico. Got usuable motor, laughable brakes, but handling from the gods of dirt themselves. I don't think I crashed on this bike a half dozen times in 3 years of campaigning it. Mostly reliable too, except when the air filter hold-down nut came loose and got sucked into the motor, jamming the throttle full on in the process. I've since ridden other old 250 square barrels and these are just the sweetest handling bikes known to man. AHRMA's Ron Winget does very well on his and has few problems. ------------------ '81 490 Maico (King Kong!), 2000 CR250, 74-1/2 GP400 Maico, buncha street stuff [/QUOTE]
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