I made many over the years. The one that best shows the actual power is going to be this video: th-cam.com/video/bXGPiY3momw/w-d-xo.html That showcases the power and torque the bike has.
MY early Maico was always fun to ride on fire roads in the mountains but it was difficult on tight woods trails. It could be a challenge but that power band is addictive! Thanks for the video.
Great to see you riding again, I missed your video's I hope you are doing well. Also sending a message to all the ones writing stupid comments you guys should take a look at all the great videos about his Maico collection and learn some moto history and show some respect.
I was wondering when you were gonna open that beast up, until the 'trails tyres' showed up on screen. Beast like that should be ploughing the earth with a Metz MX 'earth rippin' set of boots. One thing, I cannot imagine 700cc on an MX and Maico too, cos I remember those maico 490s back in the day - BEASTS among beasts!
Aww yeah! Ridin on Those ol'logging roads sure bring bak good memories,.. No matter what state, whenever u got logging roads, gas well cut through, power High-Lines, wooded mountains. Always good riding. Here in my home state, all those old roads have access blocked nowadays. After the mine operations shut down and left out,.. they put gates up blocking access, also big ass rocks, or even took piece of equipment and cut out a huge section of the road making it impossible to access..
In some single track you go slow and ya it will overheat. Also the rads are smaller and when they are in side-car setup they have rads almost as large as a car.
My mate bike over heat a bit at the time I had a KLR-250 and a 650 witch had fans on both bikes so we fitted twin fans on his bike and it did the trick well good. I see another person say about fitting fans it should fix it.on my two KLR there was a heat switch on the barrel or the head it was years ago but I put a over ride switch so soon as I went off road I turned the fans on.
The frames are modern, meaning that you sit on the bike instead of in the bike and the foot pegs are moved. Depends on who you ask though, some will say that the position of the foot pegs on the new frame are better for riding, others like the older frame. It handles well either way.
Keyboard jockeys, your all Talk this owns you all dream about so you gott'a talk crap , you have to get Use to a bike like that , it's not a cr500 most European bikes don't have To be revved out to run good . The Maico's back in the day were smooth from the bottom to the top , that is Y the Maico 440 was so awesome handled Better than any bike made, and made power anyware . This bike is 3 times the bike any cr500 is .
@@alanssnack1192 I had a blood cancer and had a stem cell transplant. The blood cancer had killed my kidneys, I was always out of breath from just walking up stairs so i went in and found that. After that and chemo for some time I was in remission but I had to go on dialysis. I then had to have a lot of work to be considered for kidney transplant because they don't do it for people with this cancer since it can kill the new kidney. I eventually got one and so slowly looking to ride again but need to protect the kidney (and the movement and vibrations do start to hurt the place where they cut at least then still). Now I have blood clots and on blood thinners so not supposed to ride at all until off those.
It is ok for the most part, but the tighter the more you need to use the clutch to slow you down and the clutch is not easy even with OLC, so it can be tiring to try and hold it back.
Ya'll may think you're good riders until you can tackle Tillamook forest hillclimbs and single tracks. Probably some of the best and toughest trail riding on the West coast. Steep and we used to call the mud there "peanut butter"
Arhhh...ya too scared to ride it. Better off with a 2T 250...or 125. 2T's hate idleing or putting round in to higher gear. You honestly would have much more fun on a 4T 250 that you feel comfortable with.
Ah, another internet dirtbiker who doesnt know how to ride. Plainly you can see I am riding the bike so definately not scared of it lol thats so stupid. You dont need to be going full speed around like a jackass to enjoy riding. Secondly you dont know much about bikes nor riden a bigger bore. These bikes have tons of torque you dont need to push them to ride them you already have enough power and they do not foul plugs that easily as a 125 would because peak horse power is only 6500 rpm and 125 you must be riding wot because they habe no torque and they make power at like 13000 rpm. So why would i be better on a 125? Thats stupid you have to ride much harder and push the bike wot to not foul and to go anywhere. So you dont know much about bikes. Also I had a kidney transplant and so taking it much more easy so also doesnt make sense to ride a 125 and have to push that thing to go anywhere. Get out and ride so you can learn how things actually work in the real world. Im not om a track and Im not in the dunes Im in the woods. You ride this bike best on trails by short shifting.
Currently I own a CR250 and an XR650R. I have both BUILT & ridden plenty of big bore 2T's. I'm sorry you were riding that bike like a girl. As soon as it got up on the pipe you either changed gear or let up. I dont despise you for it, very few can ride 500 2t's close to their potential. I stand by what i said you would have more fun and ride faster on a bike that you were confident to ride. Sorry it hurts your ego.
@@aussiehardwood6196 LOL, you came back to tell me how big of a man you are with a CR250 and that you "built plenty of bikes" ya we'll take your internet comment at face value tough guy. Crap videos you can't even get sound and you are likely riding worse than me and haven't built nothing. "ride 500s to their potential" by what, going wide open on a fire road? I've got like hundreds of videos on this channel and I have ridden it wide open in some videos if that's what you are looking for, but this isn't a race track and that's not full potential where I ride or how I want to ride here this isn't the desert. In the first part I let off near dead spots because you never know what's around the corner, I only will ever go wide if I can see everything because you never know what's coming around bend, logging trucks drive around here. Second, I had cancer and just riding I would get completely out of breath when I rode and have to stop and rest. I still rode through chemo and it's on my videos. I had a stem cell transplant and wiped out my bone marrow and immune system. I also had kidney failure and I finally had a kidney transplant almost 2 years ago and this video was a year out from that which was the first time riding again and so I was taking it a lot easier as well because I was getting pain in my side. You probably wouldn't have even ridden at all. I love it when people, who have stupid videos on their channel and not even with any sound and shit, no riding videos (and when they do, they are putting around worse than they claim I do), have no proof of anything, come here and try to talk shit to me and think that a comment is enough credentials for me to take them at their word. I understand how hard it is to use a camera and how hard it is to figure out how to get sound to work. Not everyone can use a camera to its full potential and turn the sound on.
Its a bad ass bike... But as a CR500 rider that bike needs to be at high RPMs and hauling ass .. Its made for track not trail .. Would love to see it at full potential
I doubt that this 700 is a high rpm screamer like your CR 500. Very few big bores are. I just sold my cr500, and in the mtns where I live, rarely ever was I able to open her up and let her rip.
This should be on it's back wheel at 100mph on a desert track not labouring along in the Twisties 😥😥 you should buy a ktm 300 for the forest and leave the maico to big open throttle tracks
@@Maicowerk too easy champ that kind of power is wasted on dirt anyway I'll stick with my 120hp road bike 2t so much more fun when you can get the power down 😁
@@Grooty79 But you're just on a road, you don't really use it lol. How much torque is really down low? Care to try? th-cam.com/video/bXGPiY3momw/w-d-xo.html
I have other videos that just run it out, most are single track or hill climb. This video I wasn't able to ride. The vibrations after a little bit had started to give me a sharp pain in my side from the kidney transplant a year earlier so still taking it easy.
@@Maicowerk ahh ya making me feel bad now ill let you off this time but that's it no more after this mind I wanna see the bike screaming okay hope your getting better ssshhheessshh
Haha don't let me get you all worked up 🤣🤣 these are 1986 engines that I use and race that are raced In Pennsylvania winged outlaw kart classes that have 65 to 70 horsepower and have tons of love 😘
@@cupwalker24.7 lol every cr500 has a million horse power yada yada yada, dont get all keyboard horse power on me. Everyone owns a cr500 my grandma owns a cr500 lol
Winner of the stupidest coment of the day! Congratulations, the winner gets to be walked outside for 1 hour to see what is actually outside and then mjst return to the darkness of their mothers basement where they can continue the fascade of pretending they matter in youtube and social media coments across the internet.
I didn't know I was in a race? And if I was I don't know why you think an xr200 would be faster nor do I even know what kind of race you're talking about.
Opferman Motors Dirtbiking it was just a poke of fun. We all all know what that bike is capable of and I think we were all anticipating the Star Wars type peripheral blur, and some huge roost! I want to see someone ride that thing like Danny Hamel ride the KX500 👍🏼👍🏼
@@davidhilton5414 It is geared down a 12 54 for woods riding. Its more impressive in idling up hills people cant even make at speed due to all the torque. Taking it easy anyway after kidney transplant.
Opferman Motors Dirtbiking ah man hoped you’re on the mend now!! Take the time to heal!! My dream is to ride an old Maico 490. Seems like I’ve had the opportunity to ride everything but one of those!!
When you get old enough to be able to afford your own bike, you can do what you want with it. Also, you don't know what you're talking about you have obviously never ridden a bike before with that uneducated suggestion.
Can you make a video showing its full power, aint no point buying 700 cc 2 stroke to ride it like a pitbike
I made many over the years. The one that best shows the actual power is going to be this video: th-cam.com/video/bXGPiY3momw/w-d-xo.html That showcases the power and torque the bike has.
Check out Kaplan america's test drive video . He rips on it !
@@troychrisman2312 not really
@@Maicowerk we want to see you rippin getting into the meat of the power band and doing 5th gear wheelies getting it sideways Ina turn
I rip on my pitty lol
MY early Maico was always fun to ride on fire roads in the mountains but it was difficult on tight woods trails. It could be a challenge but that power band is addictive! Thanks for the video.
Terrifying sound. Much respect for even climbing on that thing 👍🏻
about the same power as a ktm 690 has... 690 has 75hp, this thing 82... but 50kg less weight... propably pretty scary on dirt
700cc doing less than what a stock KDX200 could do.
Thats cuz a kdx is a good bush bike. Not sure thats what the maico was designed for
Stock KDX 200 isnt making this that easily. th-cam.com/video/bXGPiY3momw/w-d-xo.html
Great to see you riding again, I missed your video's I hope you are doing well. Also sending a message to all the ones writing stupid comments you guys should take a look at all the great videos about his Maico collection and learn some moto history and show some respect.
Thanks! Haha, ya people are keyboard riders
I was wondering when you were gonna open that beast up, until the 'trails tyres' showed up on screen. Beast like that should be ploughing the earth with a Metz MX 'earth rippin' set of boots. One thing, I cannot imagine 700cc on an MX and Maico too, cos I remember those maico 490s back in the day - BEASTS among beasts!
Where I ride is more trials tire friendly. These are just roads here.
@@Maicowerk haha yeah I totally understand. It's still fun even at that speed. I wouldn't have the same self control as you 😉
This bike must have some crazy power output
Supposedly 82hp right off the showroom floor...
@@dr.hugog.hackenbush9443 Crank power yes.. But Rear wheel horsepower?
82 times 0.87= About 71 RWhp.
Kaplan America should have his 2023 on the dyno within a couple weeks
Aww yeah! Ridin on Those ol'logging roads sure bring bak good memories,.. No matter what state, whenever u got logging roads, gas well cut through, power High-Lines, wooded mountains. Always good riding. Here in my home state, all those old roads have access blocked nowadays. After the mine operations shut down and left out,.. they put gates up blocking access, also big ass rocks, or even took piece of equipment and cut out a huge section of the road making it impossible to access..
Maybe over heats cause lugging it to much need some speed so you can get some air in the radiator
In some single track you go slow and ya it will overheat. Also the rads are smaller and when they are in side-car setup they have rads almost as large as a car.
@@Maicowerk I bet you could run a KTM fan kit on it.
@@highwayman1218 there is a trip fan kit on the rads they kick on at 212F
Foggy rainy wet...but you are still riding the Maico 👍
Greetings from Thailand, I great to see you riding and I love seeing Oregon again 😀
Thanks Bill!
That place is AMAZING. 👍
Most Powerful 2 Stroke on The Market!!!,Just Imagine Boring it Out!,Its 85 Horses Factory!,That's Sick!!!
85 whp? i doubt it
@@EnduroUK. actually it's 82 factory!,Look it Up!
At the rear wheel ?@@rgarrison1819
@@rgarrison1819 Ken kaplan had 60 on the dyno
Looks like a great place to ride. Cool sounding machine!
That thing sounds awesome!!!
What a total beast!
Sounds potent
Comes with 2 spare rear fenders, should get you thru the break in period
How much did everything cost to get the bike street legal? I'm considering buying one.
Music to my ears
Idk where your riding but it is absolute beautiful man.
My mate bike over heat a bit at the time I had a KLR-250 and a 650 witch had fans on both bikes so we fitted twin fans on his bike and it did the trick well good. I see another person say about fitting fans it should fix it.on my two KLR there was a heat switch on the barrel or the head it was years ago but I put a over ride switch so soon as I went off road I turned the fans on.
Love that video. Good to see you riding again!
Thanks!
what is this tank in front of the bars for?
Aux Fuel tank
Does that 700 handle as good as the older Maico's? Thanks for sharing.
The frames are modern, meaning that you sit on the bike instead of in the bike and the foot pegs are moved. Depends on who you ask though, some will say that the position of the foot pegs on the new frame are better for riding, others like the older frame. It handles well either way.
Glad yo see you back on the trails..next is to start standing up and start wheeling through the puddles.✌
Just look and listen
IT DOE'S it
E F F O R T . . L E S S !!!!!
LIKE ANY MAICO DOE'S!!
Nice Bike.. I had a new 1985 Honda CR 500 and a 2 stroke is made to be opened up .. if you don't get out of 2nd gear open it up a just a little..lol
These have wider powerbands and usually run great short shifting in the woods. This was an easy day though
Convince me to Go Maico and never buy a cr500 again!! Beautiful Bikes very glad to see you healthy and riding again.
Did you spend that kinda money just to say you have a 700 2 banger, or are you gonna ride it
what does the powerband feel like?
Good to see you back and out riding again been praying for you
Thanks!
Nice bike 🚴
Is this Washington state ?
im in alabama where can I purchase one of these
Miss my 89 cr 500
I had a new 1985 back in the day it was a beast..
@@wonderbread2364 mine was just stock but it was a ripper ..85 I think was the fastest one they made so I hear anyways...lol
Does it just rip your arms off?
Not if you ride it sitting. Never stand.
Wecome back Toby! I like your big bore Maico monsters.
We are waiting for more videos :-)
Thanks!
Side by sides are a menace
I think I would get the. Ig bore kit for the. Ktm or gasgas turn the 300 into a 500 ...
Sure, just get both if you want those. I have a 440, 3 490s, 6 500s, a 620, a 660 and 2 700s.
Keyboard jockeys, your all
Talk this owns you all dream about so you gott'a
talk crap , you have to get
Use to a bike like that , it's
not a cr500 most European bikes don't have
To be revved out to run good . The Maico's back in the day were smooth from
the bottom to the top , that is Y the Maico 440
was so awesome handled
Better than any bike made, and made power
anyware . This bike is
3 times the bike any cr500 is .
is there a reason you ride it at idle everywhere?
First time riding after a year from kidney transplant
@@Maicowerk and wtf did you get a kidney tranplant?
@@alanssnack1192 I had a blood cancer and had a stem cell transplant. The blood cancer had killed my kidneys, I was always out of breath from just walking up stairs so i went in and found that. After that and chemo for some time I was in remission but I had to go on dialysis. I then had to have a lot of work to be considered for kidney transplant because they don't do it for people with this cancer since it can kill the new kidney. I eventually got one and so slowly looking to ride again but need to protect the kidney (and the movement and vibrations do start to hurt the place where they cut at least then still). Now I have blood clots and on blood thinners so not supposed to ride at all until off those.
Great.
How is it in tight technical trails?
It is ok for the most part, but the tighter the more you need to use the clutch to slow you down and the clutch is not easy even with OLC, so it can be tiring to try and hold it back.
The other thing is that it overheats easy, so going slow on tight trails will overheat it easy.
Ya'll may think you're good riders until you can tackle Tillamook forest hillclimbs and single tracks. Probably some of the best and toughest trail riding on the West coast. Steep and we used to call the mud there "peanut butter"
I'd name it "Lurch" for obvious reasons... lol
Seems like you could do most trails with just the idle power
You can do hillclimbs that are difficult for most bikes at idle. th-cam.com/video/bXGPiY3momw/w-d-xo.html
Para hacer lo ke haces, con un ciclomotor de 49 cc, vas más rapido...
Para ke kieres tanta moto y no pasas de 60...
Like bringing a tank to a knife fight.
Arhhh...ya too scared to ride it. Better off with a 2T 250...or 125. 2T's hate idleing or putting round in to higher gear. You honestly would have much more fun on a 4T 250 that you feel comfortable with.
Ah, another internet dirtbiker who doesnt know how to ride. Plainly you can see I am riding the bike so definately not scared of it lol thats so stupid. You dont need to be going full speed around like a jackass to enjoy riding. Secondly you dont know much about bikes nor riden a bigger bore. These bikes have tons of torque you dont need to push them to ride them you already have enough power and they do not foul plugs that easily as a 125 would because peak horse power is only 6500 rpm and 125 you must be riding wot because they habe no torque and they make power at like 13000 rpm. So why would i be better on a 125? Thats stupid you have to ride much harder and push the bike wot to not foul and to go anywhere. So you dont know much about bikes. Also I had a kidney transplant and so taking it much more easy so also doesnt make sense to ride a 125 and have to push that thing to go anywhere. Get out and ride so you can learn how things actually work in the real world.
Im not om a track and Im not in the dunes Im in the woods. You ride this bike best on trails by short shifting.
@@Maicowerk 👌
Currently I own a CR250 and an XR650R. I have both BUILT & ridden plenty of big bore 2T's. I'm sorry you were riding that bike like a girl. As soon as it got up on the pipe you either changed gear or let up. I dont despise you for it, very few can ride 500 2t's close to their potential. I stand by what i said you would have more fun and ride faster on a bike that you were confident to ride. Sorry it hurts your ego.
@@aussiehardwood6196 LOL, you came back to tell me how big of a man you are with a CR250 and that you "built plenty of bikes" ya we'll take your internet comment at face value tough guy. Crap videos you can't even get sound and you are likely riding worse than me and haven't built nothing.
"ride 500s to their potential" by what, going wide open on a fire road? I've got like hundreds of videos on this channel and I have ridden it wide open in some videos if that's what you are looking for, but this isn't a race track and that's not full potential where I ride or how I want to ride here this isn't the desert.
In the first part I let off near dead spots because you never know what's around the corner, I only will ever go wide if I can see everything because you never know what's coming around bend, logging trucks drive around here.
Second, I had cancer and just riding I would get completely out of breath when I rode and have to stop and rest. I still rode through chemo and it's on my videos. I had a stem cell transplant and wiped out my bone marrow and immune system. I also had kidney failure and I finally had a kidney transplant almost 2 years ago and this video was a year out from that which was the first time riding again and so I was taking it a lot easier as well because I was getting pain in my side. You probably wouldn't have even ridden at all.
I love it when people, who have stupid videos on their channel and not even with any sound and shit, no riding videos (and when they do, they are putting around worse than they claim I do), have no proof of anything, come here and try to talk shit to me and think that a comment is enough credentials for me to take them at their word. I understand how hard it is to use a camera and how hard it is to figure out how to get sound to work. Not everyone can use a camera to its full potential and turn the sound on.
A 700 2 stroke. That's like taking a 1400 4 stroke
Автор ,когда поедешь?
Where does one buy one of these?
Koestler in Germany. See Maico 700 buyer's guide video.
It’s a Mac Truck stuck in the body of a big ass dirt bike!
Its a bad ass bike... But as a CR500 rider that bike needs to be at high RPMs and hauling ass .. Its made for track not trail .. Would love to see it at full potential
Thanks! I don't ride track though and can't really open them up in these woods.
@@Maicowerk need to take a trip out to the desert and let her rip . i can see letting it rip In The woods be bad . is there open areas ?
@@jodyjohnston3137 Not really near here. Far drive to dunes but it's setup for woods riding and I'm not a dunes person.
I doubt that this 700 is a high rpm screamer like your CR 500. Very few big bores are. I just sold my cr500, and in the mtns where I live, rarely ever was I able to open her up and let her rip.
@@ronpage101 im in southern California and ride the deserts ... Wide open deserts. And a lot of GP MX tracks for big bores
If you ever want to sell it... let me know
sure like to have one of these engines for a quad build
Would make nice Enduro? Not many to choose from. Honda xl and klr 650s always been on my wanted list .
This should be on it's back wheel at 100mph on a desert track not labouring along in the Twisties 😥😥 you should buy a ktm 300 for the forest and leave the maico to big open throttle tracks
That's what you can do when you buy yours. This is what I do with all of mine, my 620, 660, 700 Maico and 700 Zabel.
@@Maicowerk too easy champ that kind of power is wasted on dirt anyway I'll stick with my 120hp road bike 2t so much more fun when you can get the power down 😁
@@Grooty79 But you're just on a road, you don't really use it lol. How much torque is really down low? Care to try?
th-cam.com/video/bXGPiY3momw/w-d-xo.html
dude should have bought a 250 would have cost half as much and been twice as fun
Baja 1000 candidate ? I think so !
At 9.5 miles a gallon better be pulling a wagon :)
letz see this new school big bore in action.
Haha!
U could be booting it along there mate your killing me with this 2 gear stuff shhheessshhh
I have other videos that just run it out, most are single track or hill climb. This video I wasn't able to ride. The vibrations after a little bit had started to give me a sharp pain in my side from the kidney transplant a year earlier so still taking it easy.
@@Maicowerk ahh ya making me feel bad now ill let you off this time but that's it no more after this mind I wanna see the bike screaming okay hope your getting better ssshhheessshh
It dosent have that dangerous HIT 🎯 💪🤠🚀🏁 like a 1986 cr500 these are for young novice riders ;)
I had a 1986 CR500 and I sold it cause no low power and would get stuck on a wet leaf. My 620 has a much harder hit than that cr had.
Haha don't let me get you all worked up 🤣🤣 these are 1986 engines that I use and race that are raced In Pennsylvania winged outlaw kart classes that have 65 to 70 horsepower and have tons of love 😘
@@cupwalker24.7 lol every cr500 has a million horse power yada yada yada, dont get all keyboard horse power on me. Everyone owns a cr500 my grandma owns a cr500 lol
@@Maicowerk cr500💪🚀🏁
Who would of ever thought a day people's grandma's would own one and could ride and race them to full potential on 4 wheels
Hope you get the courage to give it some gas!
LOL I have plenty of times.
Brown’s Camp
This video makes me feel like a cr250 is a rocket ship ! Wrong bike and rider for these trails ! Uuuuuuuh
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i want to ride that so bad
It’s a great bragging bike…, but that thing wood get smoked by any other 250-300 enduro bike on that trail….
th-cam.com/video/bXGPiY3momw/w-d-xo.html
Can I buy it please
Yes, you can buy one from Koestler on Germany he still sells then new.
is this the first time you have ridden a motorcycle 😂😂
One more time than you!
Weak effort every video you is fantastic but I might as well been riding a postie I would have kept up with you
This video? I guess it's not hard to keep up with someone just putting around after a kidney transplant on a dirtbike.
I hate bike abuse!! 😂🤙
Then dont abuse your bikes!
Sick bike but you’d be faster on a an xr200!! Haha.
I didn't know I was in a race? And if I was I don't know why you think an xr200 would be faster nor do I even know what kind of race you're talking about.
Opferman Motors Dirtbiking it was just a poke of fun. We all all know what that bike is capable of and I think we were all anticipating the Star Wars type peripheral blur, and some huge roost! I want to see someone ride that thing like Danny Hamel ride the KX500 👍🏼👍🏼
@@davidhilton5414 It is geared down a 12 54 for woods riding. Its more impressive in idling up hills people cant even make at speed due to all the torque. Taking it easy anyway after kidney transplant.
Opferman Motors Dirtbiking ah man hoped you’re on the mend now!! Take the time to heal!! My dream is to ride an old Maico 490. Seems like I’ve had the opportunity to ride everything but one of those!!
That bike hates you for you bogging the hell out of it if you want a bike you can put around on I suggest a 50cc bike
When you get old enough to be able to afford your own bike, you can do what you want with it. Also, you don't know what you're talking about you have obviously never ridden a bike before with that uneducated suggestion.
? Try 50 to 1 mix
You should have bought a 50cc 😂
Why would I buy a 50cc? Maico doesnt make one.
@@Maicowerk 50cc seems more your capability, just saying, you might get to change gear to
Ru scared of it or just don't know how to ride 2 strokes?
Neither. You dont know much about bikes
You ride like my grandma you should of bought a push bike and spandex if you want to ride like that
Your grandma is awesome for riding a Maico 700 around! I guess she needs something to do between your diaper changes.
Gonna burn up the plug
You're not very familiar with these bikes
Wow see why u ain't going fast lol
Because I'm not in a race with anyone? lol
You got demoted to a CRF150F.
Amazingly I didnt, perhaps thats what you ride if you have even ever riden at all.
@@Maicowerk I had one once it was a great bike. Great ride thanks for posting.