• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

When men were men...

firecrotch said:
I have a friend that lives in Boise that said thats changing fast. He lived in Kaspell and its already like this in parts of Montana apparantly. Especially Kalispell area. Sucks
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yeah well Boise is getting big so it happens. Got a buddy in Twin Falls and it's pretty lawless there :>)
 
1104101034.jpg 'the beater'

'77 AW400 w/ 440 top end. solid alloy bars. Lectron carb. home-made pipe, roost-boot from PVC pipe and plumbing parts. custom air box for the high-pipe. MS dez tank. motoplat ignition. fox shocks. pic'd here anealing a head gasket on the camp stove. king of ugly bike. pretty fast too. ate honda's for lunch.

manly? ever pull the clutch lever on one of these? itll make popeye cry. plus the kicker snapped off first kick every ride (note lack of same) even with a comp release so i gave up and just push started it everywhere. also- had to be manly to wear these shorts in public.
 
Motosportz said:
yeah well Boise is getting big so it happens. Got a buddy in Twin Falls and it's pretty lawless there :>)
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I live in Twin Falls, All the used to be gret riding areas...Closed up..NO pass signs all over.
Not like it used to be, that is for sure. but not lawless.
 
It is my understanding that if the land is federal- NFS, BLM etc, it doesn't matter what state it happens to be in.
 
pvduke said:
'the beater'

'77 AW400 w/ 440 top end. solid alloy bars. Lectron carb. home-made pipe, roost-boot from PVC pipe and plumbing parts. custom air box for the high-pipe. MS dez tank. motoplat ignition. fox shocks. pic'd here anealing a head gasket on the camp stove. king of ugly bike. pretty fast too. ate honda's for lunch.

manly? ever pull the clutch lever on one of these? itll make popeye cry. plus the kicker snapped off first kick every ride (note lack of same) even with a comp release so i gave up and just push started it everywhere. also- had to be manly to wear these shorts in public.
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This 73 440 couldn't keep a kick starter either. The splines would usually strip first, then after welding the shaft would snap off, but the possibility of a broken case couldn't be ruled out either.
I'm pretty sure the same arrangement was used for 125-501cc.
Riding very far from the pickup was always an adventure.

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I had a 70 250 though which was much more reliable and rode it many many miles from the truck, just had to be sure to bring enough spark plugs.
 
hahaha another "right-side start" maico. i installed my comp release to try and stave the snappge. all it did was make it easier to push start hahaha. and after i dumped that breaker ingition it'd fire right up first kick. i started kicking it with the kill button on and with the lectron and the motoplat it'd fire right up and stopped snapping knuckles. i like the yellow bike you still have it? that'd make a nice project not many left. i may still have parts sources for a lot of goodies for those.

and thanks to the board for not making fun of my Magnum PI shorts....cuz im not in the mood fer slappin suckers today...:p
 
pvduke said:
hahaha another "right-side start" maico. i installed my comp release to try and stave the snappge. all it did was make it easier to push start hahaha. and after i dumped that breaker ingition it'd fire right up first kick. i started kicking it with the kill button on and with the lectron and the motoplat it'd fire right up and stopped snapping knuckles. i like the yellow bike you still have it? that'd make a nice project not many left. i may still have parts sources for a lot of goodies for those.

and thanks to the board for not making fun of my Magnum PI shorts....cuz im not in the mood fer slappin suckers today...:p
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Yeah, I still have it and have wanted to restore it. It had breakerless ignition but it stopped working, so I put the stock stuff back on. Compression release for sure.
Those early Maicos, should have all been red, because riding one was like being with a super hot redhead. The best it can get or the worst it can be.
The good times keep me coming back for more for several years/bikes.
 
Xcuvator said:
This 73 440 couldn't keep a kick starter either. The splines would usually strip first, then after welding the shaft would snap off, but the possibility of a broken case couldn't be ruled out either.
I'm pretty sure the same arrangement was used for 125-501cc.
Riding very far from the pickup was always an adventure.

I had a 70 250 though which was much more reliable and rode it many many miles from the truck, just had to be sure to bring enough spark plugs.
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I think I recognize that tickler... Isn't that is a Bing CARB on this Maico?

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You gotta go 3rd world if you want lawlessness ...
 
ray_ray said:
I think I recognize that tickler... Isn't that is a Bing CARB on this Maico?

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You gotta go 3rd world if you want lawlessness ...
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Good eye Ray, Bing concentric they were called, and yes a tickler. The Bing concentric was actually a good carb compared to the remote bowl Bing it replaced.
 
Xcuvator said:
Good eye Ray, Bing concentric they were called, and yes a tickler. The Bing concentric was actually a good carb compared to the remote bowl Bing it replaced.
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Actually, I had to press my nose against the monitor to see the pic clearly :0) .... What happened to Bing? Just priced out of the market for home\japan island CARBS such as the Mikuni? ...
 
Xcuvator said:
OK DD, are you going to withhold details until I slip off the edge of my chair? :popcorn: 125?
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That is a 1973 125 Maico. It had a custom seat foam and cover, hand rolled up pipe, hand built aluminum airbox and the Koni shocks moved up on both the swingarm and the frame. The rotary valve was cut, and a modified Can Am piston was fitted to do the vroom vroom chores. It still had the boat anchor, steel channeled Radielli rims on it though.
 
Dirtdame said:
That is a 1973 125 Maico. It had a custom seat foam and cover, hand rolled up pipe, hand built aluminum airbox and the Koni shocks moved up on both the swingarm and the frame. The rotary valve was cut, and a modified Can Am piston was fitted to do the vroom vroom chores. It still had the boat anchor, steel channeled Radielli rims on it though.
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What sweet bike:cool: and I had no idea there was a Maico in your past.:eek:
I think a lot of the 70-73s got their shocks moved. A story that was going around (you probably remember it) was that Akke Jonsson and his mechanic decided to move his up the night before a race in the motel parking lot after seeing how his competition's bikes handled.
I think the late 73 and 74 models came that way from the factory.
 
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