"Save MZ" campaign?

[zedhead]

Hello all,
just a quick one - does anyone know of a "Save MZ" campaign? I'd certainly be interested in becoming involved!

Good night

Karl

[old paul]

Unfortunately this is not like forming a group to save an historic oak tree from the bulldozer or something similar. Enthusiasm for the marque is meaningless. Put together several hundred million of your favorite currency and it's a done deal.

[aah5]

So the MZ factory is closing.Lets not get all uptight and concerned about where we we are going to access parts etc. While we have user groups such as this and people with enthusiasum for bikes there will always be some way of achieving a solution. Other factorys have closed before and that hasn't stopped the sourcing of parts for a lot of the now classic motorcycles. Look at as the beginning of a new classic. There is always a way,while we have people with engineering skills to solve the problem,somebody had to make the parts, and there are still plenty of us who can. Do what I have done put together a stock of the common breakable and servicing parts,(e.g.-cables,levers,brackets,air filters,instruments,lights) and then think about about how we can then help each other, we already have a fairly good list of alternative parts on the website so we need to make it bigger and better.

[DAVID THOMPSON]

i told RAY C the fellow in charge in fla when i bought mine
i can fix almost any thing
it just takes longer if you do not supply parts
dave

what i want they will never make ...
a 400cc water cooled version of a bmw r27 or 2002 MZ rt125 with about the power of a saxon tour 27 to 35 hp
with very good mpg when you do not run it hard

[boilermaker]

What worries me is the amount of equipment on modern machines that cannot be replicated easily, ie Engine management software and valve buckets/shims etc.

[Sue]

Spoke to a German friend a few days ago, there are rumours that since the dilemma had been made more public there are a few new potential buyers showing more of an interest. Would be nice if something comes of this... keeping my fingers crossed. I've asked her to translate the information for me so I can post it up.

[iceman]

These were going to bring the MZ company back but i guess they never made it from the Cologne Moto show
This is bable fish translation from Italian ,From the Hall of Cologne new models of scooter arrive. Draft of proposals of the Pgo companies, taiwanese, and Mz, German but with happens them malesiani; both will try in this season to smash in on the European market, with proposals elaborated purposely in order to meet the tastes of the scooteristi of the old continent. It continues to read: New scooter Pgo and Mz for 2007

[mishko]

There is a new website in Germany that is trying through owners of Mz's to salvage the company, it is in German however and quite simple to register with. mz-lebt.da.

[zedhead]

Could you check that web address again please? It doesn't seem to work....

All the best

Karl

[zedhead]

Ah, silly me, it should be mz-lebt.de (not .da). I'm still waking up.......

Now where's that german dictionary......

Karl

[mishko]

Hey Karl sorry mz-lebt.de of course. Have you regisrered?