MZ

Author: Mick Walker. With foreign-built motorcycles generally dominating road and track today, it is perhaps difficult to appreciate that the situation was not always so. There was a time when virtually every manufacturer in Great Britain listed a racing machine in his catalogue and British machines dominated the scene between the world wars - Norton, Rudge and Sunbeam.MZ owners and riders are a special band of motorcyclists; certainly on a par with those of any other marque and MZ’s reputation has been built-up upon value for money for the road rider and success in motorcycle sport; notably road racing and long distance trials. The magic of MZ was largely due to the involvement of Dip. Ing. Walter Kaaden, who sadly passed away on 3rd March 1996, aged 76 years. To Kaaden must go the title of the world’s greatest ever 2-stroke engineer. Of course, before MZ there was DKW, an equally famous name and really this book is the story of both these two great marques from Zschopau in Southern Saxony. The book also covers Simson and the new era with the Skorpion. Included: DKW, IFA-post war revival, ES series, Six Days glory, Grand Prix Racing, ETS and TS series, Simson, Enter the ETZ, Road tests and the new era. Read more