Magnificent 7

Shox came for Maico with cracked hubby!

These are the older ones and I'm sure they will perform half! But they will look good!
I will rebuild these and shorten them some.

Please beware and make sure these are not 82 Maico hubs. These are the one that cracked and led to the downfall
of Maico. It was a combo of extreme shock ratio and bad hubs that folks got hurt. And sued. Some were more than hurt.

Let me check on prices newly made cnc hubs by my friends in Germany. All newly made.

I'm getting Maicoeducated...... Gary, this rear is the stock, cast magnesium 79 hub. So yes, I'm looking for a new rear hub.
There are some out there for 169ish to 249ish dollars. I can get a new aluminum one for like 290 BP. So, yes rather just go new and then I know what I got. I should not have an issue with the front. I do like the 250 powerband...... I still want to do some modern mods to the carb to get more bottom out of it.

Thinking Mikuni or Lectron?

I'm staying with Mikuni but doing my modern mods in them. If it works? It should....
If not then few of them that will be riders, can go Lectron.

Bunch of these will run good but be stored away. I'd like to donate a few after I'm gone to maybe ama museum in my name?

Oh and just for kicks? One of those Husky ol Conical hubs, looks like it would go right on the Maico. Have to modify the spacers a lil and possibly the brake mount and plate.

This is like the Field Of Dreams! If You Build It, They Will Come !!!

Now This Is The Shop Of Dream! If You Build Them, They Will Run !!!

This is Frick and Frack!

But Don't Kick Back !

Mine is The Shop of Misfit Toys
Once fine machines cast off by indifferent boys
While each has it's own story
They all dream of returning to their former glory.

New rubber and new spokes......

Only 71 more to polish! Ugggggg!

You can donate them to the "Cruisetopdown" museum

Ha! Funny! Don't you have some restorations you need to work on? Like your own Silver dollar project?

Mine are just a huge money pit that keeps growing like a sink hole, that consumes a house!

Guess my 250,390 and 500 cylinders are done. Guess through conversation with Jay at Halls, they put the decompression buttons in the heads of 430,390 and 500. Install was $50 each so not worth me doing it.

The other two have pistons coming.

nice, but you shouldnt be revealing your secret piston porting mods!

Since it was Halloween!

Figured I'd post those Wossnster pistons! Muwahaha !

Now if your in garage long enongh , those pistons will start talkin to you. If yu dont
talk back to them you will haunted by seizures for years !!

Better talk nice to them.

Progress

Fox bike, with gold rim but it need a tube!

Not you tube! Motee sickle tube!

progress in da shed

I love that Moto X Fox Bike! You Da Man!

Thanx! I looked all over the internet to see if someone ever did one? I couldn't find one, so thought? Hell, I'll build one!

It's really growing on me...... Glad you guys pushed me to the bright gold rims! I was set on black but they make it pop!

I'm pretty darn good at lacing up and truing rims but these Akront dimpled rims were a bear. The nipples didn't have much clearance in the holes. I prob should have drilled them out lil. The spokes might of been a slight bit longer as well? I tried every technique imaginable to make it go fast.In order to get the nipples started, you had to make sure the spoke and angle were aligned.I would be on one side and see a bunch of nipples that fell out on other side? There were tons of swear words. Rear took 8 hours. Front took 2 hours! I did not want to scratch them! It was messing with my mind. I usually just stick spokes in both sides of hub and get my pattern down and fly. Now the other bike, with Nordisk took about 45 mins each with truing.