One for you bikers out there...

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Wed Feb 19, 14 7:30 pm

I remember these Kawasaki 750's had a reputation as being death traps, this don't look like it's gonna end well....

Mick · Post by **Mick** » Wed Feb 19, 14 7:56 pm

I had a 500. Great bike, would blow most 750's off then.
Mick

Mossy68 · Post by **Mossy68** » Wed Feb 19, 14 8:09 pm

Widow makers !
Amazing machines. The power delivery was mind blowing.
2 stroke hooligan machines.
My mate has a bike shop and has a customer who has about 6 minters. 500's and 750's. worth a few quid nowadays.
Try and dig out some pics.

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Wed Feb 19, 14 8:22 pm

There was a Drag Bike in the 70's with 3 x 750cc Kwaka engines called "Freight Train" with 9 Expansion Chambers - a bit of a copy of "Aitcheson, Topeka, and Santa Fe" that ran in the states and driven by Russ Collins.

I'll get me coat..............

db · Post by db » Wed Feb 19, 14 8:26 pm

3x3=9 =

shovelheadrob · Post by **shovelheadrob** » Wed Feb 19, 14 8:29 pm

I took my test on a 250 Kawasaki, borrowed off a mate, I had a KH400 for a while but got to test a 750 H2 while I was despatch riding in London back in the late 70s. I remember wheelieing it all the way up Tottenham Court Road, Bananarama! mental power delivery, nothing below 3 or 4K then it wanted to kill you!

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Wed Feb 19, 14 8:32 pm

Yeah, like that's the perfect dispatch riders bike

I bet it would coke up after being in traffic for about 20 minutes.......

Adrian Worman · Post by **Adrian Worman** » Wed Feb 19, 14 8:41 pm

Mick wrote:I had a 500. Great bike, would blow most 750's off then.
Mick

Mick would've been King on that around his town..,,,
The Mach1's were much lighter and sharper than the 750's, they were the fat US export fodder, weak as Bananarama! now but back in the day the perfect madmans tool

I had a Samuri250, a KH250 and 400, even me ginge had a KH250, really nice little bikes

Mossy68 · Post by **Mossy68** » Wed Feb 19, 14 9:03 pm

Me cuz John fettling.

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And cuz striking a pose !!

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Pete · Post by **Pete** » Wed Feb 19, 14 9:07 pm

Stansions like pipe cleaners and a frame made out of bamboo!!!!!!

Mossy68 · Post by **Mossy68** » Wed Feb 19, 14 9:12 pm

Pete wrote:Stansions like pipe cleaners and a frame made out of bamboo!!!!!!

Nowt wrong with a bit of frame flex Pete

Mick · Post by **Mick** » Wed Feb 19, 14 11:48 pm

Mine was the same as the one on the stand, i put girling gas shocks on it and it handled pretty well..
There was a 750 in chatham docks when i picked the duster up.
Mick

Guy · Post by **Guy** » Thu Feb 20, 14 7:19 am

I used to have a 750 kettle when I was in the navy, great bike but it hated the long trip back down the motorways from Scotland, and my ears hated the allspeeds for the six or seven hours too. Most definatley not a touring bike.

Adrian Worman · Post by **Adrian Worman** » Thu Feb 20, 14 3:00 pm

I bought one of them Guy when I was 15 for 50 quid, had holed one piston and seized, repaired it for about another 50quid and sold it on straight away.
Made enough on it to buy an immaculate Fizzie when I turned 16

mopar_mark · Post by **mopar_mark** » Thu Feb 20, 14 3:55 pm

My mates got 2 x 500 Kwackers on route from US, along with an absolutely mint Triumph X75....

I'm looking forward to trying out a 500