1981 Maico 490 Retoration- Showroom or Race

[TuckandTwist1]

Fucking perfect!

[SquatchyActivity]

@Vintage490 Would $7,000 Cash buy it?

[maircomusic1]

Don't quite get these blinged up maicos - this one must be about 30% actual maico, the rest is just unnecessary mods and disgusting anodised billet parts... and what's with the hydraulic clutch? You may aswell have fitted discs front and back, and installed a water cooled system. Just my opinion

[takeuchitb007]

@maircomusic1  yes it's not 100% original but the guy did a beautiful job on it.. It's not overdone.

[formonthills]

Absolute cracker mate ! I had the 250 as my first motocross bike. Left side kickstart took a bit of getting used to .

I can still smell the Castrol R :-)

[hazzaslim]

how can ppl dislike this!!!!!???????????/

[twoweeled]

Damn that's nice. You just can't get that feeling outa the new stuff. Of course I remember the early 70's stuff even better. these new 38" seats are messing me up! I miss my husky wr 450 desert and cr 400!

[2strokestanky]

beautiful,i wish i grew up in those days.all we got now are 4 strokes.....

[RedRangerDanger]

@2strokestanky yea it sucks but i would recomend finding a blown up one in a dump or something i got a 87yz 125 for 100 dollars! all it needed was a new piston and tires

[bikkel125]

race with it! you have to race against 4 stroke's an beat them ;p than set it in a showroom wait 50 years and you are rich!

[magnuschubb]

i think you get more fun out of it when your riding it than looking at it in a glass box i know i would race it might as well enjoy it

[192america]

brings back good memories , what a good job you did , to me there is no contest it has to be the SHOWROOM ,

[musk74]

OMG ! This Bike looks fantastic !! To good for Training course.

[rotodrum]

Fantastico .....

[TXFarmerGreg]

Very, Very nice restoration. My compliments

[shgarrison]

First off this bike was NOT built by Carlos Serrano. It was built by Steve Garrison. I built it in Carlos's shop but I built it not him. As for the Jack Wad that asked about the hyd. clutch I am not new to this I raced 1973-75 CZ's and 78,79,80,81,82,83 Maico's it was something I had laying around and put on the bike. All builders add their own flavor. If you have done anything better lets see your pictures. P.S. I have all the 81 490 Maico I have done in the past 5 years. I have built 5 in 5

[acme511]

I have two '81 490s and one '81 440. Where did you get the parts and the Hyd Clutch bits?-

[k3ith2x23]

does anybody else have a rock hard dick?

[Harley883rSportster]

The greatest open class motocrosser ever made, period. And like a moron, I sold mine back in 1987.

[wileyx666]

Id turn the throttle around forward and down more or ya will lern the hard way when ya dump it:)--grt bike well done

[MetricHotrodsdotcom]

showroom my ass, i'd blitz the whoops at Anaheim 1 with that bike. byaaaAAaaAAaaAAaaAAaaAAPPPPPP

[ahsure]

How could you disable ratings? Don't you want infinite thumbs up?

[alexsuchapimp]

i luv a good retoration

[03149redwatch]

Hi 17/06/2011 my bike is almost the same as this one and tidy and race it too but some low life stole it from my workshop early hours on 17th june 2011 from frome Somerset UK. Any info very welcome, so if youre offered one becareful

[macroevolve]

Absolutly mint !

[hjbanks]

Think looks better than it was when it was brand new!!

[husky500cr]

Is that the dark red plastic ?

[demuktm]

wtf!!!!!why did you put an hydraulic clutch????!!!!!stupid owner

[shgarrison]

What have you done? Its lo lifes like you that have nothing better to do then put someone else's work down. Lets see your piece of crap.

[JuiceGSXR1100]

Awesome.

[JoeySchlag]

wow great looking ride you did real good

[BlackHidesFat]

@FamousPersonHere

You're famous? Who are you? The drummer for Green Day? Katie Couric?

[mickd6bucks]

Are you going to sell it? If so, let me know how to contact you.

[HellsAngelsForever]

@mickd6bucks

Send him a private message :)