Hello and Introduction

von **American Paul** » 14. August 2017 10:42

Hello MZ riders...

I wanted to introduce myself before I ask some questions. My name is Paul and I am from the U.S., Kentucky specifically, but I currently work in Italy. Information in English on MZs is virtually impossible to find in the US. As you know, MZs are pretty rare in the states. I do speak a little German but it's not very good. I'm glad I found this forum with some English speakers and as I said I have a lot of questions.

A little about my small collection. I bought my first MZ, a TS 250A, almost 15 years ago when I lived in Germany for work. Since now I'm back in Europe for a while I wanted to pick up some more MZ military models. I recently bought a nice '87 ETZ 250A. I have been a militaria collector for over 25 years so I am naturally attracted to the military MZs. As such I have many questions about MZ military models. I also have a civilian 1974 TS 150.

Again thanks for letting me join, I look forward to learning all I can...Paul

von **Lausi** » 14. August 2017 10:53

Welcome Paul :-)

It would be nice if you could share some pictures from your own bikes!

If you have questions please do not hesitate to raise.

Best regards,
/Christian

Btw: please have a look in my galery ; -)

von **smokiebrandy** » 14. August 2017 11:14

Hello and welcome in the finest MZ-forum in the hole world... :mrgreen:

... Lorchen would say, we want to see pictures...! :mrgreen:

von **muffel** » 14. August 2017 11:16

Hi Paul,

nice to see more and more members from abroad - here's a warm welcome from the middle of Germany. :mrgreen:

Please be so kind and tell us some more about your collection, about you and about the motorbike scene in the states.
Pics are welcome too.

Regards,

Uwe

von **American Paul** » 14. August 2017 11:28

Guys thanks for the warm welcome. Its exciting to talk to other MZ owners, as I said there are not that many back home.

I want to add photos, but I regularly used photobucket to do that on websites/forums. Since they changed their policy a few weeks ago and now you have to pay to use them, what photo hosting forum are people using now? Or is there photo hosting on this site, I have seen some that do?

von **löwenherz** » 14. August 2017 11:42

Hi, and welcome from the Haffregion in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern - near NO frontier to Poland..........

von **K.schulle** » 14. August 2017 11:43

Welcome American Paul!

You can upload some pictures here. When you create an new post, please look below there is in the section "Dateiname" - (in English - file name) a button named "Durchsuchen" (...search in your files...) and an other Button "Datei hinzufügen", means add your file. Now you can send your own pictures. I hope I could help you a little bit.

von **Lorchen** » 14. August 2017 11:44

smokiebrandy hat geschrieben:... Lorchen would say, we want to see pictures...!

I want to see everything of you, dear Paul. :twisted:

von **muffel** » 14. August 2017 11:48

American Paul hat geschrieben: ... photobucket to do that on websites/forums. Since they changed their policy a few weeks ago and now you have to pay to use them, what photo hosting forum are people using now? Or is there photo hosting on this site, I have seen some that do?

Yes, the new policy sucks, but you can use the direct upload to this board. If you write a new text you'll find a box underneath: "Dateianhang hochladen". Try it.
I'm not sure, will you see an english version?

Here's a pic, thats what I mean:

add_pics.PNG

von **ETZChris** » 14. August 2017 11:58

Hi Paul

I think there's no need to explain him the german descriptions. In the user control panel is the possibilty to change the complete board into english

von **beres** » 14. August 2017 12:18

Wecome Paul!

von **American Paul** » 14. August 2017 12:58

Ok, we'll try it this way...

Here is my 1987 ETZ 250/A

von **P-J** » 14. August 2017 16:15

Hello Paul

from Paul :mrgreen:

my Englisch is Bad.

von **American Paul** » 14. August 2017 16:44

I want to thank everyone for the welcome. I wish my German was better, it would really help out.

Here is my 1975 TS 250/A. I have had it for 15 years now.

von **Lausi** » 14. August 2017 18:10

Not bad, dude ;-)

/Christian

von **Martin H.** » 14. August 2017 18:17

Welcome, Paul! :wink:

You can find some information about MZ - also the military models - here :arrow:

www.miraculis.de and also in our forum in our knowledge base :arrow:

kb.php?c=139
Most of it is in German, but maybe it helps anyway.
Your bikes look fine!

von **Moonlightchris** » 14. August 2017 18:23

And Hello from me too.

Nice Bikes that you have :ja:

von **Alex1989** » 14. August 2017 18:29

P-J hat geschrieben:Hello Paul

from Paul my Englisch is Bad.

My English is under all pig :lach:

@Paul from USA:
Welcome here, nice bike's did you have. :ja:

von **American Paul** » 14. August 2017 19:24

Again thanks everyone...if I have a question to ask about Military MZs should I do it here or on the Sondermodelle sub category? I can translate the question into German, so there is more an audience to see it...am I correct in my thinking?

A photo of my ETZ and TS 150...

von **Martin H.** » 15. August 2017 09:37

American Paul hat geschrieben:...if I have a question to ask about Military MZs should I do it here or on the Sondermodelle sub category? I can translate the question into German, so there is more an audience to see it...am I correct in my thinking?

Well, you can try it... you´re correct in your thinking that there´s more audience to read your questions, than here (because some of our forum members don´t read here - they don´t understand other languages. But they might have knowledge about NVA machines which remains veiled).
I would say, try it. We will see.

von **muffel** » 15. August 2017 10:02

American Paul hat geschrieben: ... I can translate the question into German, so there is more an audience to see it...am I correct in my thinking?

A photo of my ETZ and TS 150...

yes, of course, do that. It's how Martin sayes, you'll reach a wider audience in this way.

You've got nice bikes. :zustimm:

Another question, the electric installation at your garage, that's really strange :shock:

it's somehow between surface mounted and buried wiring, isn't it?

von **American Paul** » 15. August 2017 19:33

Muffle, its the way the Italians do it I guess. There are some very interesting construction techniques here for sure, it wouldn't fly in the states. The apartment building I live in is over 500 years old, it was built in the early 1500s. I'm sure for most of its life it was a horse stable, lights and wiring are a new thing.

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