Kawasaki Triples

Is anyone here a member at Kawasakitriplesworldwide forum?

RonKZ650 wrote: .....I like my H2 to look at and ride once every couple years, but I can't imagine using a triple as a basic street bike even back in 1972. Vibrate, parts fall off, no brakes, load up in hot weather, real marginal handling to say the least.
....I don't get the allure really even after owning one for 32 years.

Having ridden a friends H2 and also having been (albeit briefly) involved in the JPRA when I was younger, I can explain it like this:
It's the adrenaline factor, and is comparable to trying to go 8 seconds on an animal with red eyes that's blowing fire from it's nostrils. :woohoo: :ohmy:

I has an H1 a long time ago, and yeah, it was that adrenaline rush. I just loved how it felt when I hit that sweet spot at 4 grand plus when all hell broke loose. But I also hated how it wanted to go into the oncoming lane in the twisties. I remember thinking, "so this is how Japan is getting even with us for that Hiroshima thing".

so this is how Japan is getting even with us for that Hiroshima thing".

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boy you aint kidding and it is not the first time folks thought that...when the first ninja 600r came out i was changing tires at kawi shop...wow...those suckers would come back to the shops salvage bin,in the back of trucks...the two that made it back...looking like they had been on giant belt sanders just piles ground down to bike shapes...kids riding em...a whole slew went down in 6 months time

i got an h1 engine that i want to put in sum thing not sure what yet though.

kawman66 wrote: i got an h1 engine that i want to put in sum thing not sure what yet though.

This belonged to a guy in Indianapolis, I'd forgotten about it.

steell wrote:

kawman66 wrote: i got an h1 engine that i want to put in sum thing not sure what yet though.

This belonged to a guy in Indianapolis, I'd forgotten about it.

I have thought about doing this in a much newer 636r chassie.making it a track bike

My uncle and my father had a nice GT750 Suzuki and it was heavy. But it ran like stink. Not compared to today's rides. Lets face it without a lot of work and mods nothing 30 years old runs like these todays scooters. But what the old Suzuki had was very pleasing. As mentioned the smell of a two stroke and the Banzi Powerband were pretty neat but the sound was something coming out of hell when she was screaming and when she was just bubbling along it sounded like a Lotus or a Lambo. My father and I would go to Bike night and he would stay just to listen to the two stroke club to fire them up to leave. He would smile and say it was "like banshee's storming the gates of hell itself!". Guess he rubbed off on me because I too love a 2 stroke triple making music. But I also know a friend of my father that died 4 times on the way to the meat locker after taking his H1 off road. They handle like crap. My uncle wrote about a smoker here
ambergrismooon.blogspot.com/2008_01_05_archive.html

I am on the kawasaki trples worldwide site, and I own 3 H1s and a KH400,they are for blasting around town and short trips,still very quick for their age,and a classic that always get attention at shows,the 500s are almost as fast as the 750s, and with me weighing around 140 compensates for any loss, I love them. I also have a 78 KZ650SR that I have been working on for years, now 810cc and cafed out,looks far from original, sold a 79 750b4 a while ago, I come on this site every now and then to see whats happening, been here for years and don't see anybody who was here when I first got here, but on the otherhand I didn't know much about KZs back then and this place helped emencley

does anyone know what needs to be done to the 500 cases in order to install 750 cylinders.

i am sure they prob just need bored to match the sleeves on the 750 cylinders.

gettem side by side and it will become obvious,no big deal as long as the 500 cases have the meat to remove.i have punched several cases out for big bores lemme know if i can help.


leon