Wrench'n Ride'n

1/7/2007. Took the MZ for a ride up to Chatswood to day. Even though it is Sunday there was still a far amount of traffic around. This gave me a good indication of what the MZ is like is heavy traffic. I find to keep her at 60kmh, without the chain slapping I have to run in 3rd gear and at about 3’000 rpm. I don’t know if this is normal? I am also getting used to the quick handling of the bike. Well it is quick compared to the Virago and sidecar that I had been previously riding. ;-) The MZ has a small wheel compared to all the other bikes I have owned. I don’t find that it falls into corners at all. From the lights I find that the MZ will eagerly leave most of the tin tops behind. Travelling back along the motorway from Homebush the bike loves to sit on 100 kmh. She seems to have plenty of grunt to get around the traffic at this speed to. I hate the mirrors. I can’t see what is directly behind me. No matter what position I put them in. I think I will replace them with a set mounted to...

Welcome to my MZ Blog. Here you will read about my MZ Scorpion Traveller. (23/06/2007) I picked up my MZ Scorpion Traveller that I bought from Better Bikes. MZ are a very old German company that has made 2 stroke 250s for many years. Thankfully my MZ is not an oil smoke blower. It has a lovely water cooled Yamaha 660cc five valve single cylinder engine. Rest of the bike is German made. I seem to be the 4th owner. The first owner bought the bike in Sept 2000 in South Australia. Then it seems to have passed onto 2 other owners till it was brought over here to Sydney. The bike had 42,164 kms on the clock when I picked it up today. It has a full service record too. So I know that this bike has been looked after. It seems to have fallen over at least once. There is a graze mark on the right side of the fairing. The right mirror is scuffed up. The Muffler has a few scratches on it. But that did not put me off. The engine runs so nicely. Better Bikes did a great job in detailing ...