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The Chairman’s Report: 2/3 
The first step is to acquire an MZ racing outfit kit. A TS250 frame, tank and wheels were sourced from a friend with an obsession for obsolescent Eastern European scrap iron. A breaker who had a vandalised ETZ250 was located and then I found out why I had been co-opted into Team Banana - I have a car. Now, the MGB GT is blessed with many fine features, however, generous load space ain’t one of them. Nevertheless, the MZ was persuaded to fit, largely by breaking it into small lumps and tying most of said lumps precariously to the roof rack.
To build an outfit: take the best bits from several wrecked MZs (what is the correct collective noun? A rusting of MZs or perhaps a disintegration of MZs), add a wheel off a scooter and about twenty feet of old scaffolding. Stir it all up in the garage for about six months, hit it with large hammers and there you have it. For the bystander (well he did say HE would build it) there’s nothing to it. It doesn’t even have to be trued up – sidecars don’t go where you point them anyway. Simple. Muzz Outfit Mark One was born and quickly painted yellow in the way of most club racers.
At this point the question of actually getting the thing to a race meeting came to a head. Muzz racing may be the cheapest way onto the track, but for some unknown reason all the tracks concerned are about 200 miles from London. There was a faint suggestion that I should get a tow bar fitted to the MG and then we could get the outfit onto a bike trailer. The correct response to this is:
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© 1998 Andrew Wegg