It's back!!! It's back!!!

[vifferman]

A guy at our school bought a 500 for his first bike!
He used to drop the thing nearly every week.
His second bike was a Kawasaki 900 - put him in hospital.

.I guess one thing about the Mach III (and the rest of the bikes of a similar ilk) is that the pipes never rusted out cos so much oil used to go through them! .

Yeah, what was up with that? Shitty chroming? Crap steel zorsts?
If it wasn't a 2-stroke, the pipes would last only a couple of years, so you either fitted a Walker or other aftermarket system, or used plenty of Redex or whatever to keep the rust at bay.
Thank goodness for today's stainless steel systems. Just wish Honda would use decent stainless instead of the low-grade variety that always has slight surface rusting. I guess it's less brittle or summat?

[Madmax]

Every one thinks your nuts to ride H1/H2s
but check this guy out
(have a look at his house tour photos)
http://www.mojokawasaki.com

[Paul in NZ]

Guys! I love old bikes and simple low tech approach to problems but lets get real here. On what planet would either of those bikes pass an emissions test OR be able to be sold in low volumes for those prices....

As for drum brakes...

Paul N

[denill]

Didn't they try the surface gap plugs in those early Kawasaki's?

Yes.

My KT250 was listed as having them.

Yes the early KTs had them.

- I tried them but it was real hard to start and just used a normal plug.

Yeah, and they certainly compounded the oiling up prob on both models.

[Madmax]

pass an emissions test? bugger that
the surface gap plugs listed for H1s were NGH buhx or bhux?
bloody useless things.
the champion plugs were way better still run them
(dont think they make them any more though)