MZ power

**Stephen** · #1 30 Aug 2002

Is there anyone out there with experience of an RTW on a 250 MZ. I mean the 2 stroke German item.

**Grant Johnson** · #2 31 Aug 2002

I wouldn't recommend it unless you are a major fan of the bike and REALLY WANT to do it on one.

There's hundreds of better bikes for a rtw.

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**peterkik** · #3 3 Sep 2002

hi,

I travelled from Holland to Burkina with a MZ 250 in our group. It performed very well. No serious problems. Only in deep sand it lacked power, but 3 teeth less on the front sprocket....and it got through :-)
It even has some very nice features: its cheap (nice for a Carnet), the chain is completely covered, fuelconsumption is rather low and the tank big and most of all: the bike is very simple to work on. And all around the world you find mechanics who know two stroke engines...
If you want to ride in a Paris-Dakar-like style you should definitly take another bike because is slow and the susupension not to good. But if your goal is to just get there and take it easy, i think is can be done with a MZ.
But then, indeed it probably helps when you are a little MZ-mad to really enjoy it.

Peter

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