maico 500??

[TRI Z Racer]

hey all, today i picked up a maico 500 dirtbike, its a 2 stroke and is supposedly 61hp. I picked it up for 300 bucks from a guy i work with, i had thoughs of maybe transplanting the engine and making a drag trike. the bike itself is in good shape with some wear and tear. Have any of you had any experience with this motor or ever seen one in another chassis. Ill get some pics up tomorrow. thanks

[Bigbore]

Dirt Wheels.

Around '82. A Maico 490 in a '81 - '82 style frame made by Franks. White plastic. Cool... but a real monster. I'll look later for the article and see if I can post it. It would be hard to fit in a '83 - '84 frame but not impossible. I don't think you could get it into a '85 style frame.

[Mobular]

Those were a brutally tough Open class machine way back. I'm sure that they'd still be a handfull!

[TRI Z Racer]

i wouldnt be against using the existing frame and redoing the swinger with an 84 R style carrier and some different tripples. like billy did with the leagers kit

[250RNUT]

trade ya a tri-z project for it

[TRI Z Racer]

whats your tri z project contain

[peeweesp]

have any pictures of it?

[250RNUT]

It contains most of a tri-z with a bucket of parts on the side. It needs a cylinder re-sleeve or replacement,seat cover,kicker,1 rad shroud, top end is off and needs some other tlc

[TRI Z Racer]

here are some pics of it, i just cleaned the carb and put a plug in her. like i said shes rough around the edges. Id really like to put it in a drag project or in a small frame like a 200x. it would be a rocket

[peeweesp]

looks pretty nice, THey are pretty rare bikes dont see many of them still around.

[MTS]

If you make that into a trike i would slap you, ill trade you a Tri-z Project if thats what your lookin fore, needs quite a bit of worl but has some cash droped on the motor allredy....

[Yamahammer490]

That looks like an M-Star. I'd bet it's around a 1986-87 model. Maico went belly-up in the 1985 timeframe and came back as "M-Star" with a bunch of rebranded maico parts.

I wouldn't make a trike out of yours. You may view it as a weird German bike that will be hard to find parts for, but a collector will pay good money for it.

[TimSr]

That looks like an M-Star. I'd bet it's around a 1986-87 model. Maico went belly-up in the 1985 timeframe and came back as "M-Star" with a bunch of rebranded maico parts.

I wouldn't make a trike out of yours. You may view it as a weird German bike that will be hard to find parts for, but a collector will pay good money for it.

It would be nuts to make a project out of that because of its rarity, and its collector value. For what you could get out of that, you could probably buy three big bore Japanese motors (for which you could easily get parts) and still have beer money left over.

[BigGreenMachine]

That would make a sick oldschool SUPERMOTARD bike!!!!!

[Rm250RF900R]

Yeah I would not won't to mess with that bike.