In the nicest possible way Matt, you are a lunatic! That really didn't look much like the fun and games you possibly envisioned, but you made a difficult job look easy! So, well done! :-)
"With all these parts, it will make this job surprisingly easy". You really should know better! Good job though. A friend had an MZ 250 many moons ago. I will never forget the very distinctive noise it made. Looking forward to the next episode.
I used CZs, Jawas, and MZs as my daily two-wheeled transport for over thirty years. They were reliable, cheap to run, easy on which to work, and the spares were dirt cheap.
Just have to support a bike build, any bike build. Choosing the equivalent of a two wheeled Trabant next level! That of course is one down! Then three up, on that level it's really cool and very dangerous, just have love a quirky bike. Great stuff.
Love the video, being a 125 biker myself and owning an old 91 Kawasaki Ar 125 - something that I had bodged together again every time it broke! Your resident blackbird is also quite a noisy bugger 😂
It took me 6 months to rebuild my mz TS 125 made in 1986 you will be having fun with the wiring as I could not find a wiring diagram for my mz I had to go through 10 different wiring diagram and they all did not match my bike. have a good rebuild
Great project, Matt. I've been restoring a 1973 Honda CB360 during my time on furlough. It keeps me sane! The end is in sight, I got my frame powder coated though. I love the sound and smell of two strokes, I have a Yamaha DT3 250 Enduro as well.
Love an MZ. Great bikes to ride and a wonderfully simple and reliable engine. Unusually for a 2 stroke they have low down grunt. Fun fact though. Most modern 2 strokes owe a no insignificant part to MZ. The expansion chamber was invented by the MZ engineer Walter Kaaden. This along with a few other refinements made the racing MZs of the 60s hard to beat. So Suzuki arranged a defection at the West German GP. The MZ rider Ernst Degner taking an MZ with him. The rest is history.
That head lamp just looks like a robot head, with its robol eye sockets, and robot ear holes. Obviously non functional because its in the care of the LMM crew. 38:38 but look! now hes a real boy.
Great video, really interesting,. I just picked one of these up a week ago all running and in one piece unlike yours... When will you be making the rest of the video? I'm interested in the mechanical restoration as I'd like to give mine the once over and it would be really cool to see how you go about it.
Oh Gods! That brings back memories of my mates bike. He had the MZ 125 and I used to p*** all over him with my 125 Super Dream, wish I'd still got both! Nice one Matt. Lawrie must never be allowed to change! It'll be a Wartburg next.........
I used MZs from the early 90s to 2006, never paid more than 250 quid for a bike. Had 1 on the road, 1 on the build, 1 in a box to raid for bits. 1st one was a TS 125, bored out to 1/3 oversize by a previous owner who bought it seized, the bloke before that stopped putting oil in as it made it smoke🤪. Also ran an ETZ 251, bought an ETZ250, minus engine, for 15 quid, then a TS 250 for 25 quid for the engine, idea was to mod the ETZ frame. Ended up stripping and redoing the TS 250, and adding the full fairing and panniers that came with the ETZ frame. Be careful, they are addictive👍.
Love this comment! He stopped putting oil in it because it smoked! I got a TS 125 in October and thankfully it wasn't in as bad a state as this one. But as with most MZs it had still been abused and servicing relaxed.
@@cheesywheels good luck with it! There's still a very active MZ Club in the UK, good people for knowledge and parts. If you aren't a purist, a swap to an electronic regulator saves much hair and cursing! Mine also had a terrible horn, sounded like a mouse farting in a biscuit tin, so this was replaced by a low tone air horn from an old ambulance, had to run the compressor on this from a 12v gel rechargeable battery with the bike being a 6v. I commute past 2 university campuses, and it was a brilliant student repeller.
Also.... The predecessors of these bikes engine design was part of Germany,s war time reparations, the BSA Bantam being heavily influenced by it. I love the smell of two stroke in the morning! 💨💨💨
Matt! I currently have a early 1960’s MZ 125cc that is in perfect condition with no rust or corrosion however, missing the engine and transmission. Would you happen to know where to locate the necessary units to restore the bike bake to operable. These bikes were not popular here in the states and parts are hard to find to non-existent. Please contact me. Thank you.
