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[Damrongsak]

On 11/27/2021 at 2:34 AM, seedy said:

Maico 685 2022

82 HP 110 Kg

Optional street legal package

 

Great urban bike for outrunning cops.  I rode a Maico 400 for about 5 minutes circa 1973.  Scary powerful for the time.

The 1973 Maico 400 used a 386 CC air cooled two stroke single cylinder motor that made 44 HP with a 4 speed transmission and total weight of 216 LBS.

 

 

https://motocrossactionmag.com/classic-motocross-iron-1973-maico-400/

[seedy]

5 minutes ago, Damrongsak said:

Great urban bike for outrunning cops.  I rode a Maico 400 for about 5 minutes circa 1973.  Scary powerful for the time.

The 1973 Maico 400 used a 386 CC air cooled two stroke single cylinder motor that made 44 HP with a 4 speed transmission and total weight of 216 LBS.

Just imagine that same bike with double the HP !!!

Another on the list of bikes I wish would come here - altho' no market for them.

But what fun they were when they came on the pipe !

[Damrongsak]

Hodaka 125 Wombat enduro bike.  I wish these type of bikes were more available these days.  Relatively cheap, small and light but very functional.  I liked my Suzuki TS125 in Thailand in 1977. 

 

 

Old review from 1972:

https://magazine.cycleworld.com/article/1972/10/1/wombat-125-enduro

[Randell]

 

[papa al]

[Randell]

 

[seedy]

 

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

On 12/4/2021 at 7:48 AM, Damrongsak said:

Hodaka 125 Wombat enduro bike.  I wish these type of bikes were more available these days.  Relatively cheap, small and light but very functional.  I liked my Suzuki TS125 in Thailand in 1977. 

 

 

Old review from 1972:

https://magazine.cycleworld.com/article/1972/10/1/wombat-125-enduro

Know Hodaka well. Here's my Super Rat from 1971. They sure were fun back in the day!

[Damrongsak]

Super Rat specs.  Only 169 pounds (dry).

 

[VocalNeal]

 

[Randell]

 

[seedy]

Trask has this engine tuned to deliver upwards of 300 hp and 280 lb /ft of torque. Still think Harleys are slow?

[wannascuba]

[papa al]

1 hour ago, seedy said:

Trask has this engine tuned to deliver upwards of 300 hp and 280 lb /ft of torque. Still think Harleys are slow?

What is the point?

Drag racing?

What times does it turn?

[VocalNeal]

Can you get 300 hp to hook up with one tire? I doubt it. I will file it in my engineering exercise folder. Triumph Rocket 3 has a bigger rear tire.

Although it would be faster than my Zoomer.

[seedy]

No high HP bike can hook with the rear tire fitted.

Drag bikes even, or Moto GP

 

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

19 hours ago, wannascuba said:

I had an R5 back in the '70s and an RZ350 in the '80s.

[seedy]

 

[wannascuba]

On 1/2/2022 at 6:57 PM, Etaoin Shrdlu said:

I had an R5 back in the '70s and an RZ350 in the '80s.

R5, nice, a classic for sure. I had a 77' RD 400 and have been a 2-stroke addict since then. 85' RZ350 and numerous 2-stroke dirt bikes...

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

2 minutes ago, wannascuba said:

R5, nice, a classic for sure. I had a 77' RD 400 and have been a 2-stroke addict since then. 85' RZ350 and numerous 2-stroke dirt bikes...

The R5 was great. I've always been partial to two-strokes. My RZ350 was also '85. Red and white. I've had four-strokes, too, but slightly larger bikes. '86 Kawasaki Ninja 600 and '88 BMW K75s.  Had dirt bikes late '60s and early '70s, mostly Hodakas.

[VocalNeal]

I wasn't looking for this. Honest.

 

 

 

[Kinnock]

Reader's Wives bike porn .....

 

[VocalNeal]

Nice Bike. Mine is green.????

[Kinnock]

5 minutes ago, VocalNeal said:

Nice Bike. Mine is green.????

I think the green ones are faster. ????

 

I liked the green version, but bought it used - only 5 months old, 1,700 km, so color was not the decider.

[VocalNeal]

Mine was/is 3 years old with 40,000. 

[VocalNeal]

Move over Allen Millyard. Le Dan is in the house. 

 

 

[SAFETY FIRST]

Wow, what a great post, I just stumbled across it a few days ago. 

One hundred twenty odd pages.

Cool ????

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[seedy]

 

[Randell]

 

[seedy]