MZ motorcycles promotional film.

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10 жыл бұрын

22 minute colour film produced by the German Democratic Republic Ministry of Trade to promote MZ motorcycles to foreign markets, with English language narration. Undated.
ISDT footage shows MZ, BMW, Bultaco, Fantic, KTM, Husqvarna, Maico, Ducati & Zundapp national /factory entries competing. A short background sound-track on loop gives the BMW ( a prototype R80 ? ) a two stroke sound.
BMW returned to the ISDT for the 1979 event in Stegskopf, east of Bonn, West Germany after an absence.
Note also the absence of any mention of the MZ factory road racing history. Possibly connected to the activities of one E. Degner with the Suzuki company.
Walter Kaden, the factory mechanics, the road racing and ISDT team riders, and all of the factory workers deserve to be remembered.
For more on this subject ;
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@xavierderck3910 4 жыл бұрын

I bought a mz etz 250 on 1986. Still have it. 320.000 km and many holidays in 4 continents. Still flies as new and never let me down. Best bikes ever made. Can't compare with the rubnish they make nowadays in india and China

@michaelbarnes4757 3 жыл бұрын

I'm the person who posted this film and I want it known I do not approve of KZfaq inserting ads in it.

@marting3760 4 жыл бұрын

The factory sent a man to an MZ club rally in England to show some promotional films like this. He couldn't understand our rather flippant reactions: when an ETZ on a rolling road was shown accelerating to maximum revs, we all shouted " BANG!" ; when a group of Zeds were shown cranked right over on a wet cobblestone bend, we screamed in terror knowing they were on Pneumant tyres.

@jonasduell9953 5 жыл бұрын

Highest concentration of MZ bikes I ever encountered was in Cuba, I even met a Cuban janitor at a resort I spent a few days who spoke German and used to live and work in Zschopau as a MZ mechanic.

@erussell1081 5 жыл бұрын

You probably never went to Turkey then ;)

@miosniksimsona1199 6 жыл бұрын

Yes it is somewhere in Georgia I think, beautiful landscapes, amazing scenery it must be Georgia

7 жыл бұрын

I love MZ i have a TS 250 thanks for video

@COIcultist 6 жыл бұрын

15.20 onwards. i was waiting for it, the dirt bikes forward facing kickstart lever.

@stanleyknife1967 5 жыл бұрын

Great video. Blooming gorgeous where they are riding.

@jeffmullinix7916 Жыл бұрын

The MZ was much more of a bike than the Simson .

@kingsamuel11 9 жыл бұрын

Motorcycle N1 in the former socialistic block. Many dreamed about that wonderful bike but only a few had it.

@ogmaqs 9 жыл бұрын

king Samuel JAWA and Cezet are more comfortable, way better sounding thanks to their 2 cylinders and their even faster (at least the JAWA TS350), but MZ is said to be more reliable and better braking thanks to its disc brake.

@kingsamuel11 9 жыл бұрын

I agree.

@axkoula7851 5 жыл бұрын

At 17:57 MZ is KTM's daddy :D

@truthahn5834 6 жыл бұрын

13:33 min. Hotel Panorama in Oberhof

@jeffmullinix7916 Жыл бұрын

At 8:14 was that film taken in Africa ! I's smell Watermelon .

@dirtmark105 5 жыл бұрын

the music in the beginning has to be Vangelis

@ogmaqs 9 жыл бұрын

I wonder where they recorded the first part of the video. It's definitely somewhere in the USSR, but where exactly? Maybe Georgia? The scenery is amazing:)

@michaelbarnes6274 9 жыл бұрын

Maciek W. Hi, you could certainly be right about Georgia, and that would follow maybe that the coast shown is the Black Sea. You probably know more than I do. Thanks. I posted the film which had been transferred from a 16mm reel onto a dusty neglected CD-ROM. I'm an MZ rider living in Australia, my first-hand knowledge of European geography is limited. I assumed that the bike trip in a dry looking summer season was south-west from the old East Germany to the Med. coast at Italy or maybe France. I'm only able to guess the name of the mountain range they cross ; Dolomites, Apennines, Pyrenees ? My original KZfaq commentary describing the film above is all I can reliably infer from the images in the film.

@ogmaqs 9 жыл бұрын

Michael Barnes I'm pretty sure it's in the USSR. 0:31 - these are all Soviet cars: Lada, Volga, UAZ. There's also an eastern orthodox church in the next scene. My guess is this must be one of the Soviet republics. Georgia is just one of the possibilities. The racing footage later in the video comes from Poland (my country:) still the Polish People's Republic back then to be specific), at least a part of it. 11:42 - notice the Polish flag.

@stevetaylor8698 8 жыл бұрын

At one point they travel past a mosque, so presumably it was somewhere like Azabaijan.

@nickknott6521 4 жыл бұрын

I RETUNED MY E, T , Z! 240 c,c In ORDER TO GET RID. Of THE MZ LERTCH It now run s. Just Like a 4 Stroke it took me 3 months of Trial and. Error as one ☝️ can only make 1 modify at a time so I made it a very pleasant motorcycle to ride , i. E Somerset to sweden ( MALiLA ) and all places in between 😀 stay safe I’m 76 years young starting riding at the tender age of 13 years I am the first of Motorcycle rs. In my Family Motorcycle s R ACE 👍👍👍👍. CT

@pastorheinzd.raidel8106 4 жыл бұрын

the isdt footage is from 1979 in West Germany.

@michaelbarnes6274 4 жыл бұрын

Yes probably, as per my synopsis above, though I'm not really 100% certain about that date, maybe you have additional evidence ?

@pastorheinzd.raidel8106 4 жыл бұрын

@@michaelbarnes6274 I was there.

@pastorheinzd.raidel8106 4 жыл бұрын

@@michaelbarnes6274 I was there.

@Blurredman 9 жыл бұрын

I see Alan Parsons 17:23!! :P

@truthahn5834 6 жыл бұрын

13:05 min. Schloss Bertholdsburg in Schleusingen

@jeffmullinix7916 Жыл бұрын

The girl is a cutie .

@nickknott6521 4 жыл бұрын

M ,Z R, A CE M OT o R B IKE s 👍👍🤔👍👍

@redtobertshateshandles 3 жыл бұрын

Typical Commies. The world was in a trailbike boom and they were making road bikes.

@gallanonim1379 5 ай бұрын

Because they make it to internal and other COMECON countries market, with high demand on cheap, light, economical, universal road motorcycles, due to lack of cars...

@egrono1 Жыл бұрын

Socialist Kraftwerk?

@michaelbarnes6274 5 жыл бұрын

And there are still a good few roadworthy in Cuba, there is an active MZ custom shop in Miami. Here in Australia in the mid-1960's a shipment of MZ's were shipped here as part of a deal with East Germany in exchange for our wheat East Germany needed wheat but couldn't afford it and so paid for it with motorcycles. MZ's were the GDR's most successful export product, arguably !

@rolandzoske448 9 ай бұрын

A funny question: What happened to the MZ - and what happened to the wheat...? ;-)