Back in the early 1980s engineers at the MZ factory built a 500cc twostroke parallel twin by marrying two ETZ250 engines together. The resulting bike, the MZ ETZ 502 generated 44bhp and could just about crack 100mph. They built ten of them, but that was that.
This bike is not a factory built ETZ502, but is the brainchild of Tom Scott of Macclesfield. Tom says: ‘The thing I love most about MZs is that its simple and rugged design can be used for just about anything. I got my faithful ETZ251 more than ten years ago now and it did me four years of London commuting before doing another four as a green-laner and