I bought a mz etz 250 on 1986. Still have it. 320.000 km and many holidays in 4 continents. Still flies as new and never let me down. Best bikes ever made. Can't compare with the rubnish they make nowadays in india and China
The factory sent a man to an MZ club rally in England to show some promotional films like this. He couldn't understand our rather flippant reactions: when an ETZ on a rolling road was shown accelerating to maximum revs, we all shouted " BANG!" ; when a group of Zeds were shown cranked right over on a wet cobblestone bend, we screamed in terror knowing they were on Pneumant tyres.
" A short background sound-track on loop gives the BMW ( a prototype R80 ? ) a two stroke sound. " It looks much like Heribert Schek with one of his home modified BMWs. Also the Number "191" fits. A great rider!
Highest concentration of MZ bikes I ever encountered was in Cuba, I even met a Cuban janitor at a resort I spent a few days who spoke German and used to live and work in Zschopau as a MZ mechanic.
king Samuel JAWA and Cezet are more comfortable, way better sounding thanks to their 2 cylinders and their even faster (at least the JAWA TS350), but MZ is said to be more reliable and better braking thanks to its disc brake.
I RETUNED MY E, T , Z! 240 c,c In ORDER TO GET RID. Of THE MZ LERTCH It now run s. Just Like a 4 Stroke it took me 3 months of Trial and. Error as one ☝️ can only make 1 modify at a time so I made it a very pleasant motorcycle to ride , i. E Somerset to sweden ( MALiLA ) and all places in between 😀 stay safe I’m 76 years young starting riding at the tender age of 13 years I am the first of Motorcycle rs. In my Family Motorcycle s R ACE 👍👍👍👍. CT
I wonder where they recorded the first part of the video. It's definitely somewhere in the USSR, but where exactly? Maybe Georgia? The scenery is amazing:)
Maciek W. Hi, you could certainly be right about Georgia, and that would follow maybe that the coast shown is the Black Sea. You probably know more than I do. Thanks. I posted the film which had been transferred from a 16mm reel onto a dusty neglected CD-ROM. I'm an MZ rider living in Australia, my first-hand knowledge of European geography is limited. I assumed that the bike trip in a dry looking summer season was south-west from the old East Germany to the Med. coast at Italy or maybe France. I'm only able to guess the name of the mountain range they cross ; Dolomites, Apennines, Pyrenees ? My original TH-cam commentary describing the film above is all I can reliably infer from the images in the film.
Michael Barnes I'm pretty sure it's in the USSR. 0:31 - these are all Soviet cars: Lada, Volga, UAZ. There's also an eastern orthodox church in the next scene. My guess is this must be one of the Soviet republics. Georgia is just one of the possibilities. The racing footage later in the video comes from Poland (my country:) still the Polish People's Republic back then to be specific), at least a part of it. 11:42 - notice the Polish flag.
Because they make it to internal and other COMECON countries market, with high demand on cheap, light, economical, universal road motorcycles, due to lack of cars...
And there are still a good few roadworthy in Cuba, there is an active MZ custom shop in Miami. Here in Australia in the mid-1960's a shipment of MZ's were shipped here as part of a deal with East Germany in exchange for our wheat East Germany needed wheat but couldn't afford it and so paid for it with motorcycles. MZ's were the GDR's most successful export product, arguably !
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I bought a mz etz 250 on 1986. Still have it. 320.000 km and many holidays in 4 continents. Still flies as new and never let me down. Best bikes ever made. Can't compare with the rubnish they make nowadays in india and China
I'm the person who posted this film and I want it known I do not approve of TH-cam inserting ads in it.
MZ were and still are very good motorcycles, it's just a shame that they had to live in Stasi land DDR.
The factory sent a man to an MZ club rally in England to show some promotional films like this. He couldn't understand our rather flippant reactions: when an ETZ on a rolling road was shown accelerating to maximum revs, we all shouted " BANG!" ; when a group of Zeds were shown cranked right over on a wet cobblestone bend, we screamed in terror knowing they were on Pneumant tyres.
" A short background sound-track on loop gives the BMW ( a prototype R80 ? ) a two stroke sound. " It looks much like Heribert Schek with one of his home modified BMWs. Also the Number "191" fits. A great rider!
Herbert Schek, yes. I would like to include his name in the commentary above but I can no longer edit it unfortunately. Thanks for your comment.
Highest concentration of MZ bikes I ever encountered was in Cuba, I even met a Cuban janitor at a resort I spent a few days who spoke German and used to live and work in Zschopau as a MZ mechanic.
You probably never went to Turkey then ;)
Yes it is somewhere in Georgia I think, beautiful landscapes, amazing scenery it must be Georgia
I love MZ i have a TS 250 thanks for video
Great video. Blooming gorgeous where they are riding.
15.20 onwards. i was waiting for it, the dirt bikes forward facing kickstart lever.
The MZ was much more of a bike than the Simson .
Motorcycle N1 in the former socialistic block.
Many dreamed about that wonderful bike but only a few had it.
king Samuel JAWA and Cezet are more comfortable, way better sounding thanks to their 2 cylinders and their even faster (at least the JAWA TS350), but MZ is said to be more reliable and better braking thanks to its disc brake.
I agree.
the music in the beginning has to be Vangelis
At 17:57 MZ is KTM's daddy :D
I RETUNED MY E, T , Z! 240 c,c In ORDER TO GET RID. Of THE MZ LERTCH It now run s. Just Like a 4 Stroke it took me 3 months of Trial and. Error as one ☝️ can only make 1 modify at a time so I made it a very pleasant motorcycle to ride , i. E Somerset to sweden ( MALiLA ) and all places in between 😀 stay safe I’m 76 years young starting riding at the tender age of 13 years I am the first of Motorcycle rs. In my Family Motorcycle s R ACE 👍👍👍👍. CT
the isdt footage is from 1979 in West Germany.
Yes probably, as per my synopsis above, though I'm not really 100% certain about that date, maybe you have additional evidence ?
@@michaelbarnes6274 I was there.
@@michaelbarnes6274 I was there.
At 8:14 was that film taken in Africa ! I's smell Watermelon .
I wonder where they recorded the first part of the video. It's definitely somewhere in the USSR, but where exactly? Maybe Georgia? The scenery is amazing:)
Maciek W. Hi, you could certainly be right about Georgia, and that would follow maybe that the coast shown is the Black Sea. You probably know more than I do. Thanks.
I posted the film which had been transferred from a 16mm reel onto a dusty neglected CD-ROM.
I'm an MZ rider living in Australia, my first-hand knowledge of European geography is limited.
I assumed that the bike trip in a dry looking summer season was south-west from the old East Germany to the Med. coast at Italy or maybe France. I'm only able to guess the name of the mountain range they cross ; Dolomites, Apennines, Pyrenees ?
My original TH-cam commentary describing the film above is all I can reliably infer from the images in the film.
Michael Barnes I'm pretty sure it's in the USSR. 0:31 - these are all Soviet cars: Lada, Volga, UAZ. There's also an eastern orthodox church in the next scene. My guess is this must be one of the Soviet republics. Georgia is just one of the possibilities.
The racing footage later in the video comes from Poland (my country:) still the Polish People's Republic back then to be specific), at least a part of it. 11:42 - notice the Polish flag.
At one point they travel past a mosque, so presumably it was somewhere like Azabaijan.
13:33 min. Hotel Panorama in Oberhof
I see Alan Parsons 17:23!! :P
13:05 min. Schloss Bertholdsburg in Schleusingen
The girl is a cutie .
M ,Z R, A CE M OT o R B IKE s 👍👍🤔👍👍
Typical Commies. The world was in a trailbike boom and they were making road bikes.
Because they make it to internal and other COMECON countries market, with high demand on cheap, light, economical, universal road motorcycles, due to lack of cars...
Socialist Kraftwerk?
And there are still a good few roadworthy in Cuba, there is an active MZ custom shop in Miami.
Here in Australia in the mid-1960's a shipment of MZ's were shipped here as part of a deal with East Germany in exchange for our wheat
East Germany needed wheat but couldn't afford it and so paid for it with motorcycles.
MZ's were the GDR's most successful export product, arguably !
A funny question:
What happened to the MZ - and what happened to the wheat...? ;-)