It lives!!!!!

In aus.motorcycles on Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:47:53 +1000

Ahh memories.

Crawling behind the clocks on the Infamous MZ and burying the tacho in
the red, watching the speedo needle hit the stop....

Downhill.

Was probably about 140kmh.

Zebee

 

I well remember traveling into Wellington from Lower Hutt years ago on
the Rg , 4 leading shoe after market brake and a "race" port jobby with
a pair of chambers and drop bars with the tacho into the red and "just"
making the 100mph... well thrashed and great fun

 

Oh yeah, I remember that ... shortly followed by a complete sense of
ambulancedness.

-----sharks

 

That's only a transient state; once the morphine takes effect, the sense
of weightlessness returns.

 

Well it's quicker than a Bantam then !

Slow 250 2 strokes from the 50's & 60's - beats walking !

Wasn't there an aftermarket expansion pipe and CV carb kit you could
get that made the MZ a lot quicker ?

JL
(I don't care when your MZ was actually made it's still a 50's
design !)

 

Wasn't there an aftermarket expansion pipe and CV carb kit you could
get that made the MZ a lot quicker ?
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"made the MZ a lot quicker "... does not compute. [1]
Why would you own an MZ if you wanted to travel quicker?
Is there a scenerio where people who have the disposable-income to buy and
fit go-faster bits but are confined to riding MZs?
(since the Berlin Wall came down?)

 

In aus.motorcycles on Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:33:06 -0700 (PDT)

well a Bantam was at best a 175, so you'd hope so!

125, 150 or 175. Still slow though. Good little commuters in heavy
traffic though and the one I commuted on for a bit would do the 80kmh
on Main North Road without difficulty. Rindinging frantically.

THey race them in pommy land (or did a few years ago) so yes. You
could get them ported and polished and a chamber and bigger carbs.
And put the 300cc barrels on too.

Damn right. Piston port 2 stroke, simplest motor there is.

MZs are tough little buggers designed to be maintained by the village
blacksmith and to be willed to your children. A solid reliable
beastie that would run at redline all day and the only maintenance
needed was to give it a new sparkplug for Christmas and promise it
you'd do the points.

Zebee

 

By modern standards yes. In the 50's that would be a good middleweight

Yes I recalled you being relatively small and light, that's why I asked
whether you'd tucked in (as opposed to casting nasturiums about having
gotten porky

Wind drag is a big issue for low HP bikes - after about 120Km/hr or so
you lose a lot of your top speed to drag - hence a even a little
flyscreen will make more difference on a 125 or 250 than it does for a
larger bike.

Put it this way, on a mid 80's 750 cruiser (ie modest HP - 50 or so HP I
guess and no fairing). 10Kg and tucking in made 40Km/hr difference to
the top speed - I could get 210 (flat stick with a tailwind and a long
road) with my face on the tank and feet on the rear pegs. My father
weighed 10Kg more and would only hunch down - he could only get 170

JL

 

Err yes it's the 70s or 80's and you live on the wrong side of the
Berlin wall, or you're a nutter in Oz

Ahh see now there's the assumption - I'm talking about history lessons
back in the era when Zebee owned the bike

JL
(although you'd still be better off with the Jap smokers of the time)

 

You need to find some of those kilos that Fraser is trying to lose.


BTH

 

Try wearing a smaller frock with less frills.

(I used to go drag racing but could never get enough traction in those
high heels).

N/

 

I first learned on a "real" MZ 250 - The Trophy (although god only knows
why it was called that. It looked more like my mother's bloody hoover.

I just found one: http://classic-motorcycles.com/mz_trophy.html

Classic!

N/

 

??? I'm sure there's a point to your aspersions but it's lost on me - in
what particular way am I being "girly"

JL

 

Maybe there was a trophy for the poorest taste in motorcycle design ?

Naw that's the GPZ900

JL

 

Well, you are admitting to riding "low HP bikes", and everybody knows
what happens to a bloke who does that. ;-)

regards,
CrazyCam

 

Drag? Frock? Heels?

Another espresso sir?

 

In aus.motorcycles on Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:03:59 +1000

It was an 84 but I had it in the early 90s.

Excellent commuter because of the zero maintenance including enclosed
chain, and it took me to Melbourne, Sydney, Lismore, Brisbane.

Indeed regular trips to a contracting job at Lismore from Adelaide
where what finally made me sell it - 1000km days at redline
slipstreaming trucks (or not if it was wet...) were getting tiring.

Zebee

 

Far too subtle for the likes of me. You were confusing me with the
witty people on this forum. I'm as subtle as a brick through a window
(and usually about as pleasant .

Certainly, make it a doppio ristretto please

JL

 

<Grin> Indeed.

JL

 

Ahhh.....

A man after my own blood pressure

N/