- Tue May 19, 2020 9:45 pm
#90173
The easiest bikes to service that I've owned in fifty-odd years of riding and over 30 bikes were the CZ, Jawa and MZ two-strokes I had when times were cruel hard after starting a family. Apart from setting the points and cleaning the spark plug(s) occasionally and changing the gearbox oil every now and then there wasn't much to do. They were all very reliable too. They really did what they were designed to do without fuss. I had a couple of K series Beemers too. They were easy to service and dead reliable, which is more than can be said for modern offerings from the Fatherland. But of all the bikes I've owned the one I kept the longest and liked the best was my R850GS, which was an R1100GS with the R850 motor. They were made for only a couple of years, to use up the remaining stock of frames etc for the R1100GS when the 1150 replaced it. Nothing I've owned before or since has had such brilliant handling and road holding, matched with easy servicing and good build quality - a Tonka Toy-like indestructibility.