RArch
Silver Wing Expert
Number of posts : 613
Age : 57
Location : West London, UK
Points : 5339
Registration date : 2011-11-07
 |  Subject: Some MZ two stroke history  Thu Dec 27, 2012 1:14 pm | |
| 50 years ago: The Ernst Degner story
http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/News/newsresults/General-news/2012/December/de1712-the-ernst-degner-story/ |
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Nowun
Super Scooter Rider
Number of posts : 288
Age : 71
Location : Hampshire, England
Points : 4644
Registration date : 2012-10-13
| | Subject: Re: Some MZ two stroke history Thu Dec 27, 2012 4:58 pm | |
| Great piece of history - thanks RArch. |
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KurtPerthWA
Silver Wing Guru
Number of posts : 1710
Age : 75
Location : Belmont, Perth WA
Points : 8082
Registration date : 2009-01-19
| | Subject: Re: Some MZ two stroke history Fri Dec 28, 2012 4:03 am | |
| Wow Thanks mate.
Bit deeper in actual details than I was aware of.
Imagine what if, if the Easties were a capitalist nation with that technology.
Would the Japanese two strokes gotten as powerful or numerous?
Last edited by KurtPerthWA on Fri Dec 28, 2012 6:19 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Meldrew
Visiting Curmudgeon
Number of posts : 4207
Location : York, North Yorkshire, England UK
Points : 9360
Registration date : 2010-11-16
| | Subject: Re: Some MZ two stroke history Fri Dec 28, 2012 4:56 am | |
| I've probably got a few colour photos of the MZ two-strokes bikes raced by Ernst Degner and British rider Alan Shepherd in the 1960's. I took at the motorcycle museum at Schloss Augustusburg. It's a few miles from the now derelict MZ factory at Zschopau, which is the Z in MZ, on a tour of East Germany back in 1988. |
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SCTLVR
Maxi-Scooter Rider
Number of posts : 186
Location : Fairfield, CA
Points : 4663
Registration date : 2012-06-27
| | Subject: Re: Some MZ two stroke history Fri Dec 28, 2012 4:03 pm | |
| Corner at Suzuka race course in Japan named after Degner. Track owned by Honda and built by Soichiro for testing his bikes. |
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