Picked up a Kawasaki triple

Kapahulu wrote: It won't be cheap

Famous last words. Just the crank work will set you back $500. Fortunately, parts are fairly easy to come by.
I like this place:
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Gee harm, your car has a bad oil leak.

Gee harm, your car has a bad oil leak.

Haha! i hope not. It was raining out that day

Kapahulu, i did join the kawasakitriples.myfastforum.org/ forum

thanks all

I recently picked a few myself

this came with the package

74 H2 waiting in line to get done by me; i still cant believe people park bikes for 35 years after only doing 3,000miles. Currently stuck in project limbo behind the goldwing, gs1000, and three kz1000s.

Greg you opening a dealership?

maybe I have enough chit





Plus I picked this up today one owner 6400 miles , major score

OP didn't mean to hijack your thread ,,,,drinkin an post'n

Sell the vette; make extra room besides chevbies are for girls... Wait I didnt mean that last part.

I gotta get me the greg luck; low mileage hondas, suzukis and yamahas get thrown at me... But bikes i like go to you

Back in '78 or '80,'81 , there a guy at the barraks in 'Vegas (Nellis AFB) with a race ready H-2 and he raced it up the road at the track against cars and 1500cc class 4 strokes and said he usually won. One night he gave us a demo in the barracks parking lot. 3rd over bore, electric ignition, race pipes. I think he said it was a Rickman frame and body. The 2 stroke smoke was thick in the air that night after the demo.

Didn't one magizine review call the H-2 frame the frame with the "wiggle in the middle"?

azman857 wrote: Didn't one magizine review call the H-2 frame the frame with the "wiggle in the middle"?

I think I remember reading that somewhere... I have some vintage magazines and in one road test of the H2 the author complained "They put a 70HP two stroke in a moped frame with no brakes and no suspension, it's mildly uncontrollable at best..."

I've driven a 500 and owned a couple Yamaha RD's. Nothing quite as insane as a two stroke getting "on pipe" :evil:

A triple is a fun bike, but Kawasaki lost any desire to provide parts in about 1978. I still have a 1974 H2 I bought 36yrs ago, had 10,000 miles on it, has 11,000 now. I finally eclipsed the 1000 mile mark. I have no desire to ever ride it again, but I guess I don't desire the ride the KZ1000s or KZ650s either. Only reason I bought the H2 was it was less money than a Z1 or KZ1000.