In 1985, the three friends, Martin Wolfien and Marko and Tino Kindermann, living in Berlin-Lichtenberg, made their dream of an elegant sports tourer come true by building a complete homemade fairing. Creating moldings from fiberglass-reinforced plastic, they made an East German MZ ETZ 250 look more like a Yamaha XJ 600 or a Kawasaki GPZ400R. The decked-out MZs garnered so much attention from motorcycle fans that they later sold fifteen assembly kits, some to contract laborers from Cuba and Vietnam.