Kawasaki H1 1971
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Kawasaki H1 1971
This has been a long term box awaiting to be ticked. I've lusted after one for many moons.
There are very few smoker triples that come up for sale locally and the Irish sea has been one of my main obstacles to ownership. (yes,I am a lazy twat) This one is coming from Wales,if I can ever get a bike courier who answers his phone.
Anyway,pending the vagaries of transport companies,this is the bike. An H1a with shitty brakes,shitty handling and shitty fuel consumption. If ever a motorcycle was entirely pointless,this is it.
There are very few smoker triples that come up for sale locally and the Irish sea has been one of my main obstacles to ownership. (yes,I am a lazy twat) This one is coming from Wales,if I can ever get a bike courier who answers his phone.
Anyway,pending the vagaries of transport companies,this is the bike. An H1a with shitty brakes,shitty handling and shitty fuel consumption. If ever a motorcycle was entirely pointless,this is it.
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Re: Kawasaki H1 1971
That looks mint. Nice one Skubbles. Never mind all that brakes, fuel consumption, handling malarkey (I know, I know....just gan it up on t'back wheel ) that looks fun.
(Are those bars the original fitment? <----scrub that, I'd forgotten that they did have quite a big rise).
(Are those bars the original fitment? <----scrub that, I'd forgotten that they did have quite a big rise).
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Re: Kawasaki H1 1971
Big bulge on the right hand casing with the quite large diameter pipe coming out of it, what's that then, pipe looks a big big for feeding an oil pump?
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Re: Kawasaki H1 1971
It's a US import and it's a distributor. Remember them? Afaik UK models didn't use that part. It also disappeared on later models.KungFooBob wrote: ↑Fri Jul 14, 2023 2:34 pm Big bulge on the right hand casing with the quite large diameter pipe coming out of it, what's that then, pipe looks a big big for feeding an oil pump?
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Re: Kawasaki H1 1971
What did UK models use instead then, out of curiosity? Or did they just have a smaller/different version?
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Re: Kawasaki H1 1971
Fooking Aces. Get some spannies on there and a gopro so we can hear it sing and you scream in terror at the same time!
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Re: Kawasaki H1 1971
UK models had CDI. It was a big thing for bikes at the time, and Kawasaki plugged it in their advertising. It did cause some interference with electrical items I recall...
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Oh, and nice one Skub! Good on ya. Everyone needs a 70s/80s stinkwheel in their life and that one looks mint
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Re: Kawasaki H1 1971
Not surprising...mangocrazy wrote: ↑Fri Jul 14, 2023 3:14 pm UK models had CDI. It was a big thing for bikes at the time, and Kawasaki plugged it in their advertising. It did cause some interference with electrical items I recall...
The engine was a three-cylinder two stroke with a displacement of 499 cc (30.5 cu in). It had Mikuni VM 28 mm carburetors, and thyristor-based capacitor discharge ignition (CDI) developing 25,000–30,000 volts.
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Re: Kawasaki H1 1971
It's all fun & games until the front down tubes crack... A problem that plagued Kaw's for years. Had a '75 H2 that suffered from it, friends '74 Z1 did it, as did another friends '83 750 Spectre.
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Get thee hence with thy naysaying ways.
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Re: Kawasaki H1 1971
100% certain you'll have sorted transport by then, but I should be in Wales the second weekend in September for a wedding. Happy to bring bike stuff and ride it over for you!!
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LOL! It's an easy fix, wouldn't stop me owning another '75 H2-C or a '75 Z1-B. The cracks look like they were cut with a frigging laser.
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I bloody hope I have it before September,but it was very kind of you to attempt the blag,cheers.
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Maybe that's why I crashed my Z1A a lot,the frame was cracked and I didn't notice?
Nah,it was all down to me,I believe.
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