TRUCKLOAD OF MAICO'S ARIVE SAND SPIDER 490 's MAICO ALPHA 250, MAICO 700 GODZILLA & MUCH MORE
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- A TRUCKLOAD OF AWESOMENESS; 3 MAICO SAND SPIDER 490'S & A MAICO SAND SPIDER 250 & THE ABOMINABLE MAICO 700! LADYS & GENTLEMEN, BOYS & GIRLS, STEP RIGHT UP, STEP RIGHT UP & FEAST YOUR EYES ON 700CC OF HEWA POWA! THE WORLDS MOST POWERFUL 2 STROKE. AWAKEN THE KRAKEN, THE FIRE BREATHING DRAGON, THE CHIMERA & THE LOCHNESS MONSTAA!! (hammer) SUMMON THE YETI, BIGFOOT, KING KONG & GODZILLA (whip) CALL FORTH THE WIZARD , HAIL THE MANIC MECHANIC! AND VERILY RAISE DRACULA FROM HIS COLD CASKET GRAVE (sword) ; IN THE WORDS OF DIRTY HARRY; DO YOU FEEL LUCKY TODAY, DO YOU PUNK? THE BIGGEST BIG BORE ADDICTS DREAM AND A 4 STROKES WIDOW MAKER. THE NITEMARE . THE INTIMIDATOR, THE MAICO SHARK, THE MEGALADON OF 2 STROKES, THIS BIKE WILL RIP YOUR HEAD OFF. OFTEN SPOKEN OF , BUT RARELY SEEN OR HEARD. STEP ON UP INDULGE YOUR EYES ON THE ABOMINABLE 700 THAT WILL RRRROOOIIIIIIPRRRRRRIPP]RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROPRRRRIP YOUR HOUSE OFF THE FOUNDATION. FROM THE LAND OF UNOBTANIUM GIANTS; HAND MADE BY MAD SCIENTISTS . DR JEKYL & MR HYDE HAVE ROUSED THE FRANKENCYCLESTEIN. HAIL THE ALPHA THE OMEGA THE HOLY GRAIL OF MX MADNESS. BEHOLD THE GRAVE DIGGER- BLACK DRACULA- WIDOW MAKER 700! SOUND THE HORNS LADS! BRACE YOURSELVES TO HEAR THE THUNDA ! RELEASE THE KRAKEN MILK JUG MONSTA!! MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA 🇺🇸 SO YOUR 450 HAULS THE MAIL, CUTE,,, THIS 700 HAULS THE ENTIRE POST OFFICE!!! YOUR 500 RIPS THE HOUSE OF THE FOUNDATION, NICE.. THE 700 EXPLODES IT!!! IM HIT!
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Would love to see Maico 700 vs 490 drag race, so many great projects right now!
ITS ON; 490 SPIDER VS MAICO 700 Vs CR500R VS. ALTA ELECTRIC ! Oooo yea!@! Stay tuned
Where in the :'"*$# do you find these bikes beautiful
@@techs1smh13 sources, they literally scour the ends of the earth everyday and have contacts throughout the industry. It’s takes years and character to establish what they’ve accomplished.
@@KaplanCycles Do you sell 3 wheelers around a 110cc minimum? I'm thinking about a small ATV I need to check out some land weekly. ATV nothing to big, small and light like a 110cc 3 wheeler or maybe 4 wheeler with high and low lever. 110cc plenty enough power. If so what is your website and address thanks? I have a nice restored red exterior black interior 1969 California Camaro with paper work when I bought it in California. I thought about selling raffle tickets to give away the car and someone with a good online presence like you. Time has come thinning down my fleet I'm just going to keep 1 muscle car not 2. I had 4 muscle cars I'm down to 2 left. And I'm selling off other stuff thinging everything down. If interested leave me a message thanks.
@@tomtee4442 ok cool text pics of the car and info to sr at 860 916 9784
Do remember "top trumps" the card game when I was a kid in the 80' we used to play it in the school yard. I think of the dirt bike edition every time I watch your show, that maico was one of the best cards!!!amazing to see all these classics 👌
Love the crew and family, thru patriots and 2 stroke smoke love it, God bless America 🇺🇸
Thank You for continuing to make these great videos. Motorcycles are true works of art! Love the old 2 strokes the best!
Gold man. Cream of the crop. Privateers dream. 4 words you worried about in the day......"he's on a maico"
Man I know y'all worked at getting this but dang it y'all lucky. Lol really blessed.
That Alpha 1 490 looks like an 83. Awesome bikes
RRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIPPPPPPPPPP Your house of its foundations 🤙
O my lord Ken look what you are looking at 😲 your son is lovein those bike maico 490 Kaplan Jr I no he is proud of his dad love all the videos 2 stroke ✌️🙂mas powerful Karl from Tennessee be safe.
I would love the Wizard's job. My dream is to have my own restoration shop. Spend my days rebuilding old 2 smokers.
Gotta love that 82 husky X C. Had to 250 model in 81,82 and 83
I swear this is the promised land.
Visiting your store/museum is officially on my bucket list.
Bikes came from my neck of the woods. Alot going on at the museum. Love the Maicos.
I watched Jackie's videos he made recovering from falling out of the tree. What a trooper
Those are some awesome bikes, love the look of those old airhead maicos.
Right when you see those air fins you know it's a part time unicycle
I had the 1982 250 back in 85!
Guy has a 1986 Maico GMStar 500 for sale for what I think is cheap. He’s gone through most of it. Here in mid Ga. $4400. Beautiful bike
Man you guys are living the dream. wow.
One of our (AUSSIE) down under champions of moto X Gregg Ballard rode them for 490,s too many a championship he then went on to ride Honda's and create the Jeff Ballard 630 kit fof the dr 600,s in the 90,s and also the xr280 kit for the 250,s.. and if my memory is correct he went on to use them to win the Finke desert race which is held each year in Australia from the outback town of Finke to Alice Springs and back.. Toby Price is one of it a couple of times to name a champion
Wonderful work you guys do..cheers Davo
Great Bikes🤩👍🏻
Beautiful German engineering.
I never get tired of looking at Maico’s
I had a poster of the 490 Sand Spider in my room right next to a poster of The Bomber Hole-Shotting the 1981 USGP at Mid Ohio👍🏼
The BIG question is.have U seen or come across a maico 760.. from the 70,s
We are here, from CA!
This one of my favorite TH-cam channels. I’m disabled from muscle waisting disease but would literally give anything to ride again. 25yrs of riding and I can’t no more!! Got 84 2 stoke g1 Yamaha golf cart for now to curb my 2stoke love!! 2stoke for life🇺🇸
Install an expansion chamber and some Cerianis on that 2-stroke golf cart, FloridaRossi! Woohoo!!! I have a friend with severe, debilitating back problems, and whenever we talk, it always includes the kinds of bikes that Ken Sr. and Ken Jr. house in their museum and restore and sell. My buddy's first choice in an MX if he could ride is a Bultaco Pursang. It'd be difficult for me to choose just one, especially after being reminded of all the great 2-stroke bikes from yesteryear by the Kaplans. But, it'd be a toss up between the inaugural year Honda Elsinore 250 with the silver and green tank, a Penton 125 Six Days, a Rickman Metisse 100 (Hodaka engine) or 125 (Sachs engine), an Ossa Stiletto 250, an AJS 250 Stormer, or a CZ 250. 🙂
you really want the twin shock 490 mega 2 ,the monoshocked ones didn't ride anywhere near as well
these were cool bikes
Great Video. Great Bikes. Y'all are so blessed to have Wizard. Cool and highly knowledgeable guy. Can't wait to get my bike, since I already know he checked the Carbuerato's Jetting. Amazing how you can get a bike from a factory...that winds up running like shit.....and how after Wizard works his magic, the bike can perform to it true full potential. I just know how to do basic preventative maintenance on bikes. I want to learn though. Any way I can save money, I do. Never have been afraid to get my hands dirty. My Parents never allowed that in the house, and I'm so grateful to them that they didn't, because I would not want to have turned out, like some of the kids today, which are gonna have a hard road ahead in life, because of their chosen mind frames and attitudes. In some ways, I feel sorry for them, having been raised by highly unqualified parents, that catered to them much too much, never telling them no, and always giving them their way, that sets them up for failure, because that gives them a very distorted sense, of how life is supposed to work, which causes many problems for them, later on in life not having been taught respect for authority figures. Thanks for the great video. Very much looking forward to that gold chain on the bike. It will look great with the gold pipe..It will also look great, with those blood red plastics. 😁
I had a few twin star fun little bike wicked good on gas
One of the fastest bike l ever rode was a Husqvarna 490 man that thing was a beast talk about ripping your house off the foundation. Man it was wicked!! What a load of awesome bikes.
Totally Unobtainium yet kaplan America has a truck full 🤣🙏😇🇬🇧🇺🇸
I'm from Buffalo NY these bikes weren't far from me at all
I always thought I knew a lot about bikes Until watching you guys! You all really do know what you are doing and talking about! Great Videos!
Brings back memories! when I was 14 a friend of my brothers gave me a maico 501 and sand spider 250 that didn't run. After I got them running, I went to start the 501 and forgot to pull the compression release and it picked me up and deposited me over the handlebars. Didn't make that mistake again... Cheers guys
Keep SR off the 490 Maico...don't want him doin another LOOP OUT LARRY 😂🤣
I plead the 5th, or insanity! Lmao!
Oooooo man nice
Don't forget the RM500 another beauty an a must have O yes lord smokie big bores for life 💯👑🔥🔥💪🏾💪🏾🤳🏾
Ive never seen so many maicos in one place in my life! Its a spiders nest! 😳👍
five times IOM champion awesome but our Joey Dunlop was 26 times IOM champion
Beautiful husky..I have a 82 wr250 dick burleson replica...project
Beautiful machine
Such a beautiful load of Maicos. They’re definitely at the right place to continue life.
That RMX to RM conversion is going to be great. If I remember correctly there wasn’t a lot of difference between the two. Suspension was set up for wood as was the gearing. Then just a headlight and such. Back in the day guys loved running the RM in enduros. Thank you for sharing these awesome vintage machines with us Ken and team!!
Havnt seen a 501 Maico yet ! 😳
No wheelies??!!! I feel jipped!
MAICO'S rare as rocking horse shit and you got a fcukin truck load!!!
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I miss the old days of watching Maico’s Danny “Magoo” Chandler shred the competition! I had a 78 bored and ported RM 125 built by Ron Converse but always had a desire to ride a Maico! Back then a teenagers dishwasher salary didn’t pay much……..
That 250 spider is F' N sick
Wizard 🧙♂️ is truly living the dream
If I was going to move back to the USA 🇺🇸 I’d be hitting you up for a job 😉
There is a guy down here in south Alabama local to me in Gulf shores that has for sale a sweet 1983 maico 250 with the chrome gas tank.i can send you the link if you'd like just tell me how and where to send it.its a markets place listing
The Huski with the original chromed out tank and the simply gorgeous radial finned jug just made me shift my drawers! Wow!
Common Ken she is indeed the Ultimate Ripppppppppper
God Bless Everyone There Who Really Really Believes in JesUs and as my friend Taryl the ultimate small Engine legend would say There's Your cotton Pickens dinner damit
Have a great night
Sr. and Jr., THIS is now my #1 favorite TH-cam channel! You guys keep all the great excitement over vintage 2-stroke MX bikes alive and well! Keep up the great job, guys!
If you close your eyes you can here the difference but they nearly sound the same. Awesome. More content with the whole team!
Friggin great stuff man, those Hessian 490s…..I can still remember riding a brand new 1982 490 with maybe 30 minutes on it. The owner wanted to thrash my YZ125, and we did the swap. I was 14 years old. Absolutely scared myself silly on that Maico, but it was freakin awesome. At the end of this video it appears you failed to mention what appears to be an extremely clean Honda FT500……… When do we get to see that???????
Your son sounds like Jason Weigent lol
That a awesome selection of bikes. Hopefully the compression release works. Or you'd never be able to start them. Way to go Ken you get some great bikes there
Strippahs.....Rippahs....and Beer!!! I love it!!!🤪
Wish I was in the states I would come visit you guys
Those are absolutely stunning! Back in the early '80's I had a YZ 490 and one of my riding friends had a Maico 490. Not that my Yamaha was a slouch, because it certainly wasn't. But his Maico used to smoke me on every ride! Usually by a lot. I'm sure those German bikes made way more horsepower than they were rated as. 👍
Yup, I raced a Maico on a cr500 and it smoked me all the way upto 60 I just got him on top end and his brakes were way superior
I heard the handling is unbelievable
Maico dealership for Kaplan Cycles ?
Wizard is still an interesting character
Dad gave me a 250 maico for Christmas ! When I was 14 , I rode all over the neighborhood that day in the snow , with a cast on my left arm from football, it was awesome
It's sad what happened to Maico. The Company was sabotaged from within in 1982 by the Brothers/Owners. The 1981 490 was a superior Bike, and was crap literally the next year.
Cheap Corte Cosso shocks attached to wrong swingarm/frame geometry, bad wheel hubs, wrong heat treat for gear box internals....Maico might still be around if it wasn't for greed, animosity between family members
im glad im to poor to buy a bike id probably live longer maybe i do miss riding though those maicos are bad ass am i the only one as a kid to rip paghes out of dirt bike magazine n put on my bedroom walls as a kid lol im 52 so its been awhile lol
My walls were covered
My dad still has his 490 from back in the day
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Oh hell you have a Penton there too!?
I have his book, biography of John Penton. I live close to the track (Sunday creek raceway) that the GNCCS use for the John Penton round. I raced the GNCC on a mini when KTM had an anniversary “KTM day” I think it was), got a John penton medal 🏅 for finishing and have a pic of David Knight (factory KTM World champ) giving it to me. I also got to meet John that day, & he signed my John Penton book! I also got David knights pants & jersey from that same race, & at the next GNCC in Sparta Kentucky, managed to see him & get them both signed. (He was walking the track right by where we parked, we had jersey and pants with us hoping to see him. They were so so muddy from the John penton race I had to clean them before he could ever try to sign them. He signed the stuff while I used my back for a place for him to sign (have pics of that too!).
Anyway, it really brought back a ton of memories from that day when you showed that bike. It went down as one of my childhood best memories for sure, the whole race weekend & the series of events that happened. If I’m not mistaken that was 2007 & my first year riding a KTM 85. I loved & still bleed orange!
OMG the fuckin holy grail in motor cross my favourite dirt bikes of all time next to the 1981 CCM 580 Hero the only 4 stroke i like. I wish i still had my maico it kills to watch. Big up to KAPLAN you guys kill it every time your blessed @ this time 💯 in 💯👑🔥🔥🔥🔥💪🏾💪🏾🤌🏾 🤳🏾 🤫
Id love to move to the US i have family there , you got the best life sun dirt bikes every thin made right there @home freedom to ride and those hill climbs there's nothin like it i love it all sick way of life bucket list no 1 for me 💯👑 🤳🏾
So cool seeing so many Maicos now that I follow your channel. Looks like a nice pickup!
Maybe I haven’t seen the video, but what’s the business here? Clearly mechanics working on bikes, just not sure of the back story. Seen the deegan video & was blown away at the collection. Super nice
Solid gold. I find it absolutely amazing how you’re able to have all those projects going on at the same time. Great team. Those mechanics are simply amazing; the way they can work on such a variety of bikes. 👍 🏁 🏍️
Arranca las motos!!
Kaplan America woke Up and He was in Maico Heaven!!!!,Some of Those Baby's look like they just came out of a Time Capsule!!!!,I Remember the 1982 490 Maico,There was Nothing Quicker!!!
Guys, guys, someone used the term "motor" at 1:33. Pls don't insult these rare treasures with the term "motor". Motors run on electricity. Engines are combustion. :))......LOVE THIS CHANNEL.
Those 490s are intimidating me from beyond the screen! I can smell hospital food from here.
Wow, just saw your inventory. I don't know if you've heard of it, but I had this 125 when I was 12 that blow doors on all my buddies 250's. It was an aluminum framed Rickman with a Zundapp 125 motor. I would love to see 1 and how it stacks up to it's contemporaries...
SMaRt ! sorry having difficulty concentrating for long enough cause this stuff dealing with and brain injury...docs gave me fluvoxamine its helping my dyshpasia, why not been following,
I was 17 graduate high school in 76 got a job at a honda,triumph, bmw,moto guzzi dealer before graduating worked there about 18 years, loved it. Seeing this now I'm missing it.
Georgia trail dawg brings back a lot of memories I don't know 490 al 1 and an 83 sand spider both were purchased from Barry Higgins of h&h motors the the alpha One was good for hair scrabble s
dam i just cant stop washing, this is like my dream come true (cant wait for the 500 GASGAS, that thing well tuned is a monster, should be ilegal 😂)
oh my god maico heaven. maicos became single shocks in 1982 but there was problems with them it was all fixed for 83 though. good stuff 👍😜
Brutes! Is Kaplan a premier US motorcycle museum? If not, it should be! Amazing!!!!
Oh man that brings back memories, that Maico & husky. I won't kill a man for those , but I sure would pinch the bejezus out of him.
My first bike was a Husqvarna 430xc
Hoping to see more videos of the gasgas dirtbikes tonight!! Thoses old school bikes are kickass!! I'll take the spider dirtbike!! Build them up guys!!
Your place is like heaven it just gets better and better but Ken man you really got to get a late model husaberg 650 that's the one jewl you've not had through your place yet you won't regret it I promise special machines 😉
LOTS OF BEAUTIFUL MACHINES AND SHOP WOW...thanks for the show
Awesome maico lovely dirt bikes thanks Kaplan America motorcycle 👍❤️🇬🇧
Do You guys fuck with the tm racing ?
Willie Bauer has an upset stomach about right now and Adolf Weil is rolling over in his grave like a rotisserie chicken, when they saw these ultra trick vintage Maicos.
Any jobs going at your place. I will work 24 hours a day for nothing as long as can touch those beauties.......
What would shipping cost from you to me 98295 ? I’m looking for the Maico 490
Who do you recommend working on maicos, I need someone on the east coast , I’ve been dealing with so cal maico but I live on the east coast and have a 490 that I can’t get running and need help
KAPLAN.¿ Que habeis echo un viajecito a ALEMANIA?😂😂
That 700 Maico probably has plenty torque so my guess if you ported it for high end horse power nothing would hang with it out of the gate
How these bikes tote Mr. Kaplan and his balls is beyond me. Keep ‘em coming, living the dream!
Those are sweet can’t find one I had a 1976 Maico 250 back in the 79 great bike tons of torque.
Awesome Maico catch! Cool tour of the shop! 🤠
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The festivals maico this week in Caplan museum, biautiful bike 🤪🇨🇵✌️
No Prep Kings is at New England Dragway this weekend. Sat is the invitational race.
What Rochester NY ??? What Town...# Pittsford.
The Maico God has shone his praise on the Kaplan Boys, All Hail Lord God Maico!!!