My better half was out of town last week on a "girls only vacation". Whilst she was away, I had been given the task of finding a new place for us to rent. I took a look on craigslist and quickly got bored of looking at rental houses so I thought I would check out the motorcycles section instead. The following morning I unexpectedly came home with this New Old Stock Egli Yamaha tz250/350 kit... We haven't found a house and I spent the security deposit money on half an old motorcycle.
Along with certificates of authenticity signed by Fritz Egli it came with basic assembly instructions and an original price list from 1975. Finding other owners or photo's of a complete bike is proving difficult outside of the black and white photocopy images I have in the assembly instructions. Being a race kit, I imagine any that are out there probably differ in spec, however I can see this is a fairly complete kit.
It's missing the following:
- rear brake master cylinder
- front fender / mudguard (the bikes in the Egli documentation are photographed without mudguard and the only other two images I've been able to find are also without the mudguard).
From the additional accessories kit it's missing
- fairing screen
- L & R rear fairing brackets
- front upper fairing bracket
- exhaust system and fixations
- rear wheel sprocket
- rev counter
- water temp meter
Engines were not provided with the kits, you had to fit you own engine which requires some modification to the engine casings (instructions provided).
It's going to be a slow, long term project that will mainly be me searching for whatever required parts I still need and making those I cant find.
I'm not sure if it will be a restoration, at this stage I think I just want to get it complete and running before restoring anything.
I will have to get the magnesium wheels crack tested and then I can hopefully fit some rubber so its easy to move around.
I would like to eventually find a tz250/350 engine for it though may consider an rd/rz 350 engine as a short term solution.
Along with certificates of authenticity signed by Fritz Egli it came with basic assembly instructions and an original price list from 1975. Finding other owners or photo's of a complete bike is proving difficult outside of the black and white photocopy images I have in the assembly instructions. Being a race kit, I imagine any that are out there probably differ in spec, however I can see this is a fairly complete kit.
It's missing the following:
- rear brake master cylinder
- front fender / mudguard (the bikes in the Egli documentation are photographed without mudguard and the only other two images I've been able to find are also without the mudguard).
From the additional accessories kit it's missing
- fairing screen
- L & R rear fairing brackets
- front upper fairing bracket
- exhaust system and fixations
- rear wheel sprocket
- rev counter
- water temp meter
Engines were not provided with the kits, you had to fit you own engine which requires some modification to the engine casings (instructions provided).
It's going to be a slow, long term project that will mainly be me searching for whatever required parts I still need and making those I cant find.
I'm not sure if it will be a restoration, at this stage I think I just want to get it complete and running before restoring anything.
I will have to get the magnesium wheels crack tested and then I can hopefully fit some rubber so its easy to move around.
I would like to eventually find a tz250/350 engine for it though may consider an rd/rz 350 engine as a short term solution.