Looking through an Italian bike mag from 1974 that someone had given me, found an advert for CZ.

Looks as though they actually produced a trials bike!!!!

Never even knew one existed......anyone ever seen one??????

Martin

Neither seen nor heard of one until now, looks like a Sherpa-ised m/xer to me though Martin. By the look of that rear sprocket some compromises must have been made to the gearing.

looks like a Sherpa-ised m/xer to me

Agreed.

Check out the neck angle.

Just to add to the discussion, Peter Gaunt, England's foremost exponent of mini-bikes at the time, came up with a CZ powered trialler around 1970, just after he was riding the Jawa 90, but only rode it for a brief while. A production bike called the Norval was on sale for a while. Both used the road bike 175 engine.

In those days there were several alternatives to the Bulto-Montesa domination, mainly using road bike engines of small capacity.

Had one had a auto clutch like old hondas 90 cc bikes,not a graet bike

When I was a mere 15 years old, my mate came home with a 'Solifer' trials bike (I think thats what it was called) 50cc, it looked like something from the SSDT of old.....I'm almost sure it had leading link forks...alloy tank in all.

We couldn't get the thing to go, so he sold it to his brother, who I think still has it....I would imagine it was spanish.......anybody else heard of this make?

Edited August 4, 200521 yr by Marky G

Love that CZ, where can I get one. We owned a CZ shop going up.

Very competitive until those dang Elsinores and YZ's came out!