Getting the bikes dunes ready!

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Updaded with pics of Dunes trip: Getting the bikes dunes ready!

Well it's spring and it's time for some St. Anthony sand dunes! Now I just need to swap on the paddles...

I'm taking the orange one, but thought I'd share the others while I had them out. Any quess as to the year make and model of the orange one? The other red one is a gem that I found when I was 16 behind a barn. One day I plan to restore it but for now it's on the back burner you get a cookie if you can provide the year make and model of that one. Two cookies if you can tell me which country it was made in

 

[Robert T]

Im guessing a 84 on the orange honda as a make 500R since its on the back arm

 

[BCGPER]

MAICO. Weren't they Italian?

 

[anderson750]

1982 Maico 490 Alpha 1.:greg:

 

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Im guessing a 84 on the orange honda as a make 500R since its on the back arm

I noticed the 500 after I posted Yes it's an 84 Honda CR500R. Arm ripper is an understatement

MAICO. Weren't they Italian?

Maico is the make, but no not Italian.

 

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1982 Maico 490 Alpha 1.:greg:

Bingo!!! now for the country in which it was built?

 

[anderson750]

Czechoslovakia?

 

[1995zj]

Japan...? My 1984 Honda Z50R was made in Japan

 

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Hint. The engine that the ATK uses was made in a country that borders the one where the Maico was made...

 

[Corban_White]

I love the air cooled big bores!!! I have an 83 480 and it is the funnest bike I have ever ridden. I wouldn't even think of taking the others up to St. Anthony, the sand is SOOOO soft up there I was wishing for a 700 the last time I went. Make sure and take some good pics!

 

[rholbrook]

I miss the old open class bikes. I rode a 83 YZ490. I had two friends with Maicos, one was the Alpha like you have shown, the other was a Spider. Man they were fast. I could go up the face of Sand Mountain and end up in 2nd gear as I summited the top. When I rode the Maicos, they didn't even struggle to go over in 4th. I had another friend with a Husky. Those were the good ole days.

I have now since joined the 4 stroke revolution and ride a WR450. My brother-in-law still rides his KX500. I have to repeat this......Man, those old bikes were fast.

 

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I love the air cooled big bores!!! I have an 83 480 and it is the funnest bike I have ever ridden.

Ha I actually have an 83 480... and an 82 480... an 81 450R Elsinore and an 80 CR250 Elsinore I love the old Honda's!

I miss the old open class bikes. I rode a 83 YZ490. I had two friends with Maicos, one was the Alpha like you have shown, the other was a Spider. Man they were fast. I could go up the face of Sand Mountain and end up in 2nd gear as I summited the top. When I rode the Maicos, they didn't even struggle to go over in 4th. I had another friend with a Husky. Those were the good ole days.

I have now since joined the 4 stroke revolution and ride a WR450. My brother-in-law still rides his KX500. I have to repeat this......Man, those old bikes were fast.

The Maico's are awesome to say the least :greg:

I don't blame you for going 4 stroke--they are so predictable and handle ten times better than these old bikes. But for the thrill of that big bore powerband you just can't beat the air cooled two strokes!

 

[ricsrx]

I miss the old open class bikes. I rode a 83 YZ490. I had two friends with Maicos, one was the Alpha like you have shown, the other was a Spider. Man they were fast. I could go up the face of Sand Mountain and end up in 2nd gear as I summited the top. When I rode the Maicos, they didn't even struggle to go over in 4th. I had another friend with a Husky. Those were the good ole days.

I have now since joined the 4 stroke revolution and ride a WR450. My brother-in-law still rides his KX500. I have to repeat this......Man, those old bikes were fast.

Oh how i miss my YZ490, it would go up sand mountain in 3rd with the front end up all the way and as my brother described it, I looked like a monky hanging on for dear life all the way to the top......
My body does not apreciate the big 2 stroke bikes like my mind does.. CRF250x for me now..

Did I tell you how fast they are!!!!!!

 

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Well we made a day trip to the St. Anthony sand dunes in Idaho. Parking in the day use area near Egin Lakes put us nearly in the middle of the entire dune area. We all fueled up and headed to Choke Cherry, Dead Horse Bowl and Devil's Dune to name a few. It hard to judge the size of these three in pictures but they are unbelievably tall and steep

I ended up taking my ATK (instead of the CR 500) which was an absolute blast! It felt right at home in this type of terrain

Most of us were on dirt bikes, but the ladies were riding a Yamaha Grizzly and a Polaris 500 Scrambler... Needless to say the Polaris burned up a belt, and (my unprepared friend didn't have a spare... WIERD! ) so we pulled it all the way back to camp from the farthest end of the sand.

A broken master link (YZ 250), a Burned up Clutch (WR 250 two stroke) and the belt on the Polaris was about the only carnage we suffered.

btw the Rotax in the ATK is made in Austria which borders Germany where the Maico was made

Anyway I hope you enjoy the pics!

 

[Corban_White]

Jealous!!!