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Anybody any idea s on the value of z z250 a2 been off the road side 125 law came in 1983 I think .dry stored looks pretty clean except forks and front mudguard badly pitted only 4K on the clock

photo's would help

I have not got any pictures

Always liked them, got loaned one for a few weeks before I got my first bike. Really liked it but the guy selling it (a scot) wanted what he paid for it new. A year later I helped him dismantle it and place in boxes to go to hi new posting near Peterhead.

From a purely personal view I would leave the pile of shite where it's been resting for the last 30 odd years

davejames wrote:From a purely personal view I would leave the pile of shite where it's been resting for the last 30 odd years

Ade

if i remember correctly they were not exactly 'mechanically robust'

i'd want to hear it running

"not mechanically robust"

and SLOW!!


Perhaps the two points are related

My first road legal bike was one of these...it's why I'm not one of these fellas that get all nostalgic about their first bike, it was a bit lame. I had it for about 18 months and couldn't wait to get enough money to move on to a decent bike.

That said, it cost 85 quid and I got 10,000 miles out of it, which is some sort of record. I learnt a lot about diagnostics too - it was a moody bugger. It did 85 twice in cold wet weather, otherwise it wouldn't get past 75.

They are prone to poor oil supply wreaking the cam and head. If you get it, find the little oil strainer hidden behind something (the oil pump I think, it was 20 yrs ago) and clean all the red hylomar, dog hair and biscuit crumbs out of it, and do it every time you change the oil (often).

There are much better bikes of this type out there though, try a CB250RS.

Olly

Bought a couple of year old, very low miler back in the early 80's for next to nothing as the 125 law had just come in meaning you couldn't give 250's away.

Always thought they were among the prettier of the 4-Stroke 250's out at the time, given most were hideous looking things compared to their oil burning cousins (think RD250 and XS250).

As said above though. not very fast or reliable and on the one I had the standard pipes rotted away in a time that could be measured in hours.

These 4 Stroke 250's don't seem to command anything like the money of their earlier 2 stroke models probably because they weren't really on the market that long before the new learner law killed them.

Have the exhausts fell apart yet? if not you might get a reasonable price.

The big weakness was the oil supply to the head (this is 20 year old memories, so if I've got anything wrong sorry!) Back when I had one good heads were not easy to find, so a duff top end meant a scrap bike.

This is a non-runner isnt it? The risk would be that this one was parked up because it has a knackered top end (even with only 4k on it), and I imagine that it would be even harder to find a top end now.

To mitigate that risk I wouldn't offer much at all, whatever the minimum is you think it'd go for on ebay if you have to bale out. £100-150 maybe? It'd have to be very very tidy for me to offer any more than that, personally speaking. That guy in ireland wanting 800 quid is having a laugh.

Olly

Exhaust look ok it was laid up because the chap from work did not pass his test he bought it new . He is asking £ 300 all appears original