Starting ETS250 restoration...

[steinr1]

I'm starting a restoration on an ETS250 Trophy Sport that I've had for about 30 years. I bought it as a donor for an ES250/2 I have but that will need to wait even longer. The Trophy Sport is pretty complete and very low (1500ish) milage (seemed much too good to be a donor) so hopefully it will be more of a titivation than restoration.

I'm in the UK and and see the MZ Shop (themzshop.co.uk) in some of the posts on the forum that I've read; they seem to have a pretty full catalogue of parts. Are they a good source? Is there somewhere else I should also look for parts in the UK or abroad?

I know I'm getting a bit ahead of myself (sort the mechanics and electrics out first, you fool) but are there some recommendations for matching the paint colours? Tank/headlight are in a delightful yellow, mudguards look like they were once a silvery colour and frame/sidecovers were/are black (I think). Suggestions? (I'm more of a Laverda orange man myself, but originality seems a more proper way to go. Ah well.)

Otherwise (fingers crossed) there is a lot of elbow grease to be expended on bringing the alloy parts up to snuff, new spokes (who from?), and as much new/replated chrome as I can afford.

Looking forward to your wisdom.

Cheers,
Robert

[Blurredman]

Woops, responded to your other thread first. So not really much to add but welcome (again). Never experienced an ETS but not common at all.

What I will say is themzshop.co.uk are okay for a few things, but in my opinion paying £3.50-£5 postage for some stupidly small item that costs you 50p to actually buy that could fit in an envelope - like the choke plunger rubber for example - really annoys me. Though they have a few things I have been unable to identify properly in order to order from elswhere, i've tried to make a list first to make the postage worth it.

Otherwise I've used several other sites, you'll find them all listed on this forum- I used to use mz-b.net before we left the EEC. Nowadays I try and source my stuff 2nd hand from the UK if I can.

[tigcraft]

I’ve also found themzshop to be eye watering expensive too!