The ex-Salad Dodger and ex-WUN TS250C

It runs - smokes like an early morning picket line but it runs all the
same. Needs a new battery before I can get an MOT as the indicators and
brake lights won't work yet. It's a good 'un too, engine sounds pretty
sweet.

It took a fiver's worth of fuel and two kicks on the starter to get it
running, not bad for something that's been laid up and neglected for at
least 18 months.

Photos and a video here :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/78131584@N00/

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Lozzo
Versys 650 Tourer, CBR600F-W racebike in the making, TS250C, RD400F
(somewhere)
BMW E46 318iSE (it's a car, not one of those 2-wheeled pieces of shite
they churn out)

 

heh, people wash their bike, then take photos of it with all the suds
underneath on the floor
why not move it for a better photo?

 

Looks and sounds OK, doesn't it? Been working on mine today (see ukrmc
for the gory details).

 

Bought 1/12/2000 19129 miles
Sold 30/06/2005 19406 miles

What's it got up to now? 19500?

 

Stuck a spare battery on the FZR a couple of weeks ago & it fired up
after a few seconds & settled down to a perfectly smooth idle. Not bad
for something that's apparently been stood for 8 years. I didn't even
put any fresh petrol in it!

 

It has a staggering 19531 miles on it now.

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Lozzo
Versys 650 Tourer, CBR600F-W racebike in the making, TS250C, RD400F
(somewhere)
BMW E46 318iSE (it's a car, not one of those 2-wheeled pieces of shite
they churn out)

 

Funnily enough, I got Snorky MZ running today - clouds of smoke but that
was a product of petroil that had been in there since September 2008
(when it went to the EOSM).

Started second kick but died shortly after when the five year old 6v
battery gave up the ghost, another blast on the charger got it to run
again - and I remembered the bike had developed a charging problem, the
reason it'd been abandoned at the back of the lockup.

I had a run up the road out of it - new battery and a bit of fiddling
will have the worlds most beautiful/ugliest bike back on the road.

 

I've been keeping a half hearted eye out for one but prices seem to
be going ever upward.Either its you buying up the world stock or lots
of people seem to be agreeing you.

 

I've not bought an MZ for ages. I don't really have any intention to
start again either.

I have, however, bought a 3.8 engine in Berkshire - I pick it up tomorrow.