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http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Other-Ma ... 8362QQrdZ1

... I was there, but my memory never has been that good - I don't remember a 125 class in the Trans-AMA series...
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Neither do I. Especially in '74.
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Beautiful bike in any event.
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bigmaico 4/30/2007 4:44pm
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I'm calling bull crap on this one!

first off no 125 class & second Maico works bike were just production bikes with really good attention to detail.

The clown is just trying to use the "Wheelsmith" name to make more money & some fool will fall for it!

Besides Wheelsmith was just a local shop that made some cool shit for Maico's, they sure as hell didn't build works bikes!
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23 bids so far say that it is worth it

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Larry 4/30/2007 5:44pm
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I heard that the guy that designed the Maico 125 was the same guy who designed th Cobra 50. True story.
12,000 dollars! Preillernut get that 400 built quick!
prillernut (MD) 4/30/2007 6:11pm
4/30/2007 6:11pm Edited Date/Time 4/16/2016 6:02pm
eBay is an amazing thing at times :shock: - providing quite a spectacle and loads of entertainment, as long as you're not one of the ones losing his ass...

[quote="Larry":18a38]I heard that the guy that designed the Maico 125 was the same guy who designed th Cobra 50. True story.
12,000 dollars! Prillernut get that 400 built quick![/quote:18a38]

from what I've heard, that ol' Cobra of yours and Maico 125 (& Zundapp 125 :D ) lower ends all had a certain characteristic "exploding" trait in common -
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Larry 4/30/2007 6:42pm
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Yep My son and I had to go to therapy for a year after owning one of those. <img class= " title="Smile">
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Yup - load of crap as there was no Trans-AM 125 class.

Main class was the 500s with 250s as support.
Those Maico 125s were a nice looking bike, but a stock TM125 would out power them, out brake them, out corner them and basically leave them for dead <img class= " title="Laughing">
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JPT 5/1/2007 1:07am
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I do remember they ran some support classes early on, especially in the Inter-Am series. A Buddy of mine ran a couple of them at Elkhorn Wisc. It would be misleading to include those but maybe that's what this guy is alluding to?
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racin mason 5/1/2007 5:20pm
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The inter am series was 250 as the premier class, and the support class was open .
project racer 5/3/2007 10:02pm
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I remember seeing one of those rotary valve Maico 125's , busted the flywheel side of the crank off. When they pulled the ignition cover, flywheel ,crank , keyway ,and nut dropped on the ground in one nice little pile of garbage.
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FLvet 5/10/2007 5:20am
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Very claen nice bike with lots of custom parts. But not a works bike. The Euro 125's were just not up to par with the Jap bikes.
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[quote="RussS":ea6d0]Yup - load of crap as there was no Trans-AM 125 class.

Main class was the 500s with 250s as support.
Those Maico 125s were a nice looking bike, but a stock TM125 would out power them, out brake them, out corner them and basically leave them for dead <img class= " title="Laughing">[/quote:ea6d0]

Trying to shake the cobwebs off my 1974 memories of the local 125cc class in SoCal . . .

I remember that Honda 125 Elsinore seemed to be about 75% of the gate. The rest of the gate was mostly Suzuki TM's and YZ's with a few Pentons, Bultaco's and very rare CZ or Maico.

I don't remember European bikes being very competitive in the 125cc class in 1974

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