MZ : How good/bad are they really?

Are there any worth having?
Which ones?
Discuss.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Big Dave

Oh dear...

<crawls off to deep bunker>

Let me know when it's safe to return to the surface, OK?

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - There are few things in life more sinister than a
public toilet with the lid closed.

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Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

Most of 'em.

Shan't.

 

You need Sweller. I don't know if he'll rise to it though...

FWIW, a chap I know who's now living in Oz had an ETZ125, and it was a
solid, reliable if not-very-fast machine.

Amazingly, someone nicked it in the end, after he'd got a bigger and better
bike and wasn't using it any more.

 

Snorky? Not familiar with that word
(apart from it being the name of one of the Banana Splits)
(tra-la-la, la-la-la-laa)
(sorry)
Is that a Scorpion?

Dave

 

Big Dave came up with the following;:

Those you like.

Nah.


aul ...
(8(|) Homer Rules ..... Doh !!!

 

Ah! the "Trophy"(?) God they are fucking ugly aren't they?

Thanks Prawn.

Dave

 

The message <>

Being nosey went to look and was attracted by reported low budget costs
and results achieved.
Then as I went round the pictures a second time reality stepped in.

I remembered a two-stroke that I tried to fettle for a young friend (who
bought it to learn on) that went well in fits and starts. Turned out it
needed new main bearings as wear and leakage gave variable mixture
induction. Its intermittent good performance hid its basket case state.

Then the combined gear shift\kick start shaft of the MZ reminded me of
the ruined splines on the kick start shaft of my CD 175. I opted for
bump starting it as opposed to the gearbox rebuild needed to get it
working reliably. As the ignition key is next to useless it does help
to make it difficult for the odd youth to steal.

My experience has been that bikes at junk prices are usually junk, where
the last hard using owner ran them into the ground developing faults as
described above that are too expensive to justify repair\rebuild.

I would be delighted to be proved wrong.
Is there some acid test of which I am unaware that enables the expert to
pick up the £50 bargain?
Or are these glowing reports like gamblers who only report their winners?

Cheers, John.

 

BOF tale coming up and I have told it before:

Around 1986, I was given a 250 MZ for a winter hack. It had only done
1,800 miles but had stood in the guys front garden for 2 years after he
died, his wife gave it to me. Some one early on had nicked the spark
plug and the tax disc. (Well it was south east London, the bike was
chained to a large ground anchor.) I was working at the local Uni at the
time and talked to the Chemistry Dept to come up with some thing that
would dissolve the rust that had fuzed the piston in to the bore, which
they did. Pour it in and leave it for a day or two were the
instructions. But do it out side in the open as it's based on ether.


Grand National day everyone except me is watching the TV, I working on
the bike.


The stuff worked a treat. Freed up the piston cleaned everything a
treat. Dissolved the rust. OK thinks I, I'll kick it over till every
drop of the stuff is out and put the head on and try it.


Reassemble the bike. Turned everything on. On the second kick there was
a God Almighty explosion. A 4 foot flame shot out of the exhaust, the
fumes under the piston exploded and as the engine rotated backwards it
threw me over the bars and broke my ankle. Family come out to find me
jammed up against the side of the shed, arse in the air, feet hooked
over the bars.


Then there was the tale about the 18 months trying to get my ankle
mended on the NHS if any one wants to hear that one.

 

*Excellent!*

 

In

Got to be worthy of a OMF# that has.


--
Pete M

Alfa 155
Ford Capri (still broked)
Porsche 911 3.2 (For Sale - ebay soon)
COSOC #5, OMF#9
Scouse Git extraordinaire. Liverpool, Great Britain

 

I thought about it, but it's not really fuckwitted enough.

 

Mick Whittingham came up with the following;:

Heheheheh, genuinely funny as ****, had my kids rolling that one.

ooh, my broken Tib and Fib (caught between a Mini bumper and KE128 swingarm
whilst I was pillion of a fuckwit who apparently 'always cut that corner
'cos no cars are ever there') only took 8 months ...

 

Paul - xxx came up with the following;:

'course, the KE 128 is a very rare variant of the KE 125 ...

 

Thus spake Mick Whittingham unto the assembled multitudes:

Sod your ankle...did the bike survive? <grin>

 

Ran it as a winter hack for years until I replaced my BMW R100RS with
something that didn't dissolve in the winter weather. Ended up giving it
away to a guy who ran it for years then gave it back to me.

 

Mick Whittingham came up with the following;:

The essence of a recyclable commodity.

 

???

Took mine (R80 RT) to Scotland and back a couple of years ago - it was
fine. The best bit is staying warm and reasonably dry...

It's not great in snow, but then we don't get much round'ere.

Regards,

Simonm.

 

The RS and the RT have superb fairing to stay dry and warm behind. Did a
lot of miles on mine.

Or white lines down the road or over banding, all due to the flexible
hinge in the middle of the frame

 

I'd *still* like another old R100RS.

*Waves* at Hog.