The Mighty MZ

Blimey, it's really good. The chrome panels on the tank had indeed been
painted with what looks like gold Smoothrite, but no worries. Paint is
all original, except on the right-hand side panel.

Mileage has to be genuine at under 7k. It sounds exactly like a good
TS250 should. Even the tool box cover for the cubby in the back of the
seat is there.

Everything works. Decent tyres. Just about to take it for an MoT.

Paging Sweller! You wouldn't have one of those modified or slightly
larger pilot jets to allow it to tick over without hunting, would you?
I'm pretty sure this one has the original in it.

 

so it goes "tin-tin-tin-tin" at idle, then?

 

I'm quite fancying this one:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1979-MZ-RED-S...9103&_trkparms=39:1|65:7&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14
What do you reckon it's worth?

 

That's really very nice indeed: even smarter than mine, but still has
the crappy OE front drum, brake, whereas mine has an ETZ disc.

Got to be £400-450.

You could have mine for £350 ;-)

 

Fr Jack wrote:

Wotcha.

It even comes with a BMW log book - either that or the seller ain't much
good at ringing bikes ;-)

 

Must........resist.......
Ponders making space for another SOB.
Ok, so how far from Weston Super Mare are you.

 

SW London. SM1 4NF, so put that into multimap or whatever.

I bought this one by mistake - lobbed in a silly low bid and won it,
to my surprise[1]. I paid £205 for it, and had to travel a round trip
of 115 miles with my trailer to collect it. It's sailed through an
MoT, and absolutely everything works as it should. It's done under 7k
miles from new. Only slight shame is that someone has painted the
chrome tank panels with gold Smoothrite, but a used tank is cheap and
you could rob the panels from that, if you wanted.

And like I said, it's got a disc front end conversion.

Decent tyres, rack, and in really fantastic nick considering it's
about 30 years old. I was going to stick it on Fleabay, and I reckon
it'd fetch £400 there.

[1] As in: "Oh bugger..."

 

Oook - thats a long way.
It will have to wait until I am heading in that direction, if you still
have it when that happens.

Hopefully someone will want a system fixing and pay me to make a 5 hour
round trip with diesel at 120 per tank.

 

I could UR it to Gloucestershire...

 

It's been resprayed, seat has been recovered, foot peg rubbers replaced,
bar grips not OE. Why? On a machine that is only 31K old - finish isn't
a real problem on MZs.

Probably, but I wouldn't pay that much - £350ish

 

How bloody big is your tank? What are you driving, a truck?

 

100 litres, two and a half tons of Renault Master wheelchair carrying
minibus complete with tail lift, for carting the missis around.

 

There's me thinking you were the spastic.