Re: [ST] Motorcycle HIStory

["Scott Inman" <scott__inman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ahhhhh... thd 1972 Kawasaki H2.  That is my dream bike!  I have a book 
called "Classic Superbikes from around the World", and I thought I'd 
plagiarize what it says about this bike:

In 'Bike' magazine of November 1984, Mark Williams wrote of the H2 Kawasaki 
that "Here is a machine so utterly dedicated to completing the distance from 
A to B in the fastest time possible... such acceleration will satisfy the 
most mind-wrenched adrenalin addict.'

It was true.  Here was the first mass-produced motorcycle aimed squarely at 
the world's nutters.  These things were ferocious;  748cc of pure 
exhilaration.  They'd never made two-strokes that big before.  In an age 
still reeling from the potency of the latest quarter-litre strokers, one 
three times the size, in much the same state of tune, was simply - although 
the word wasn't so fashionable at the time - AWESOME."

Sounds like my kind of bike! J

*Sigh*  Someday?  it will be mine!

Scott


>I also recall some of those fun bikes. Back then, I was on a Trident T160.
>On a regular basis, I'd meet up with a Kawi 750 triple (H2??) rider. Man, 
>he
>would just smoke me on anything straight, but I could out-brake him
>anywhere, and lose him in the turns no problem.
>
>I found out why when I rode a friend's Kawi 500 Mach 3 (H1?) Wow, no brakes
>(about as effective as the FX1200 Superglide I rode), and teeter-totter
>handling. But those things were all about MOTOR. Whew!

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