think I'm going backwards......

colin.carter

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• Sep 15, 2009

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My very first bike back in 1976 was a brand new MZ 150 - cost me about £220 I recall (ticked on over 3 years!).
Some 30 odd years and well over 100 bikes later I have just added this little beaut to the garage.
Strange really cos I wouldn't have been seen on it even way back then??

Ring ding a ding....

 

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• Sep 15, 2009

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It look odd, but I love it!
Not often I see one of those ...

Liv.

 

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• Sep 15, 2009

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like it !! MZ's rock!! just sold this one still got me 301 you cant beat an mz as a solid work horse

 

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• Sep 16, 2009

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That Trophy reminds me of this chap!

 

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I had two ES 250s in the 70s. One cost £100 and the next £10.They were smooth and torquey and I seem to recall handled well.... I had chamfers on the sides of my hushpuppies! I think I still have the rather strange ignition key.

 

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• Sep 18, 2009

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I bought a new Supa 5 in 1980 to replace a MkIII Norton Commando. It's still resting in the garage after the gearchange return spring broke and I never got round to splitting the cases to repair it. I did some of the period mods to it, including having a Honda CB250 K4 TLS front brake laced into the MZ alloy rim and replacing the OE tin switchgear with Kawasaki stuff. It's now been resting since 1988. Perhaps one day I'll get round to restoring it......

 

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• Sep 18, 2009

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The plague, ricketts, having to travel by carthorse, scurvy, the cold war, highwaymen and MZ motorcycles......all rather unpleasant things that should best be consigned to history and certainly not venerated.

 

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• Sep 18, 2009

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colin.carter said:

My very first bike back in 1976 was a brand new MZ 150 - cost me about £220 I recall (ticked on over 3 years!).
Some 30 odd years and well over 100 bikes later I have just added this little beaut to the garage.
Strange really cos I wouldn't have been seen on it even way back then??

Ring ding a ding....

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That whole front end has something GS about it