Things that make you cry

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Like this



http://www.ebay.com/itm/Other-Makes-maico-gs-440-/252466717047?forcerrptr=true&hash=item3ac8306177:g:54kAAOSwZ1BXep-F&item=252466717047
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MaxPower 7/20/2016 6:43pm
7/20/2016 6:43pm
At least its isnt painted craigs list bbq black
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SCR 7/20/2016 9:32pm
7/20/2016 9:32pm
I looked at pictures in add. Holy crap they put a bicycle goose neck into the steam. Someone actually put some work into doing that to that bike. Custom sidemolding on the tank is a nice touch.
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RyanLester761 7/21/2016 9:26am
7/21/2016 9:26am Edited Date/Time 7/21/2016 9:27am
Skateboard wheel for the chain roller?! Grinning

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speedman 7/21/2016 4:20pm
7/21/2016 4:20pm
RyanLester761 wrote:
Skateboard wheel for the chain roller?! Grinning
Hey, skateboard wheels were the superior rollers in 1978, if you were fabricating your own passive tensioner, which could be crucial if you wanted to keep the chain on an early long-travel bike. It actually still bothers me that the skate shop only had yellow ones when I needed to put one on a red bike, so that Craigslist picture is even more of a flashback. Laughing And going to get one while reviving a vintage bike when I was about thirty, and the kid on the counter asking, "You skate?!" Laughing I never thought there would be so many ways of finding out that I'm old. Pinch Hope the Maico cottage industry can save that 440--I'd love to have a 74.5 GP 440 myself.
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Bearuno 7/21/2016 5:05pm
7/21/2016 5:05pm
It looks like the sort of "project" that one of those man bunned and trendily bearded, with a pack of ciggies tucked into their T shirt sleeve hipsters would think up. To then find it deeply unpleasant to ride.

Hopefully it gets returned to it's intended use - Roosting.
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Uncle Tony 8/12/2016 5:12pm
8/12/2016 5:12pm
Ok this is no joke, my buddy actually purchased this bike! Paid 300 bucks to ship it from Michigan to Long Island, he just told me about it today at the shop I work at, I said I seen the bike on vital he said yup I bought it! he's gonna restore it and make it a street legal maico
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RyanLester761 8/12/2016 7:52pm
8/12/2016 7:52pm
Haha small world! Is he a "man-bunned bearded hipster" as stated above?
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Bearuno 8/12/2016 9:27pm
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Uncle Tony wrote:
Ok this is no joke, my buddy actually purchased this bike! Paid 300 bucks to ship it from Michigan to Long Island, he just told me...
Ok this is no joke, my buddy actually purchased this bike! Paid 300 bucks to ship it from Michigan to Long Island, he just told me about it today at the shop I work at, I said I seen the bike on vital he said yup I bought it! he's gonna restore it and make it a street legal maico
Hopefully it's gone to a good home, to be brought back to full dirt use - and that, for me, includes a plate on a bike.

Barely street legal is what it's all about.
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TG130 8/12/2016 10:20pm
8/12/2016 10:20pm
RyanLester761 wrote:
Skateboard wheel for the chain roller?! Grinning
speedman wrote:
Hey, skateboard wheels were the superior rollers in 1978, if you were fabricating your own passive tensioner, which could be crucial if you wanted to keep...
Hey, skateboard wheels were the superior rollers in 1978, if you were fabricating your own passive tensioner, which could be crucial if you wanted to keep the chain on an early long-travel bike. It actually still bothers me that the skate shop only had yellow ones when I needed to put one on a red bike, so that Craigslist picture is even more of a flashback. Laughing And going to get one while reviving a vintage bike when I was about thirty, and the kid on the counter asking, "You skate?!" Laughing I never thought there would be so many ways of finding out that I'm old. Pinch Hope the Maico cottage industry can save that 440--I'd love to have a 74.5 GP 440 myself.
Yeah, I used a skateboard wheel tensioner on my RM 125. I got the thing from Al Baker R&D and it always worked great.
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Uncle Tony 8/13/2016 4:37am
8/13/2016 4:37am
Yes it has a good home, my bud said he will send pics when it's done to post here
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FreshTopEnd 8/13/2016 10:53pm
8/13/2016 10:53pm
Man, I feel better. That girl will feel better being put right.
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Uncle Tony 8/14/2016 5:55am
8/14/2016 5:55am
RyanLester761 wrote:
Haha small world! Is he a "man-bunned bearded hipster" as stated above?
No he isn't, I can never understand "the man bunn"
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philG 8/14/2016 1:18pm
8/14/2016 1:18pm
FreshTopEnd wrote:
Man, I feel better. That girl will feel better being put right.
you bought it ?
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olds cool 8/15/2016 1:32pm
8/15/2016 1:32pm
Yamaha shop must have had an overstock sale on front fenders...
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a22 8/15/2016 2:05pm
8/15/2016 2:05pm
Good job really that the obviously skilled modifier/ mechanic didn't use his apparent skills on yet even more of the bike..

Engine looks reasonably original and unmessed, other than filter box missing.

I think it maybe looks abit worse than it actually is... hopefully...

Flimsy Alloy bicycle handlebars unreal... the things that people do! As already mentioned; would think fitting those was more work than fitting a proper steel set of bars or aftermarket replacement.
Looking beyond the bodge up, is a kind of cool 70's bike. Used to be quite alot of Maicos over here in the 70's-80's. Getting old now- as everything is... !!
Dick Trickle 8/16/2016 5:27am
8/16/2016 5:27am
Well, now can someone please go out and buy this old thing and put it right..



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