250 Sprint/drag special.

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250 Sprint/drag special.

Postby breakwellmz » Sat Apr 26, 2025 2:05 am

You don`t see many of these! -
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Re: 250 Sprint/drag special.

Postby Puffs » Sat Apr 26, 2025 4:14 am

Ta for that pic, and I might add: probably for a reason!

The leading link front end is odd, and it might even have a sidecar? Cannot see clearly. Big Bing, no air filter, extended rear end & swingarm. What's with the second pot I see on the other side?

Another MZ racer, this one with a headlight:
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Re: 250 Sprint/drag special.

Postby breakwellmz » Sun Apr 27, 2025 2:42 am

No sidecar, no second pot, only one sparkplug. That`s the bumper of the car on the other side not a second exhaust.
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Re: 250 Sprint/drag special.

Postby Puffs » Sun Apr 27, 2025 3:39 am

Well indeed, it's a single 250/300, but it could still have a split exhaust header, to breath into 2 expansion exhausts? Would be a great help in increasing the throughput of the header. With that pot I mean this thing:
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Which to me looks distinctly like a second muffler on the RH side, not a car bumper.
Btw, here's what seems to be the same bike, but now with a new header & that awkward LH expansion exhaust removed (which makes sense, as I guess it would burn your leg):
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On it having a sidecar: see those square tyres, particularly the F one in your pic. Tyres like that will make normal riding difficult. Another indication is the handrail at the rear which, with a seat like that, can only be used by the monkey (= sidecarist). But I'm not sure as we haven’t' seen the RH side of the bike.
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