In the early 1990's I was at a 2nd hand store and was looking at the bicycles when I came across a 1974 Z50. It was really, really beat up. The previous owner had removed the carb, fenders, side cover etc. Looks like they were trying to get it running and gave up. The price was all of $5.00. It has followed me for 3 moves with nothing done to it. My son saw it and asked me what the deal was with it. We decided to just get it running. No resto. I purchased a repop carb and carefully re-spliced the wiring etc... and what do you know, it fired right up. Now with the popularity of these awesome little bike we just might go ahead and restore it right.
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