for the die hard two strokers - a Kawi H2

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Edited Date/Time 11/5/2012 12:01pm
Govdeals auction located in Santa Ana, CA.

There is also a RD 350 in another auction from the same seller, just follow the link.

Those H2 were just unreal when set up right.

http://www.govdeals.com/index.cfm?fa=Main.Item&itemid=348&acctid=2715
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malachi177 11/3/2012 6:20pm
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JustMX wrote:
Govdeals auction located in Santa Ana, CA. There is also a RD 350 in another auction from the same seller, just follow the link. Those H2...
Govdeals auction located in Santa Ana, CA.

There is also a RD 350 in another auction from the same seller, just follow the link.

Those H2 were just unreal when set up right.

http://www.govdeals.com/index.cfm?fa=Main.Item&itemid=348&acctid=2715
When set up right? Crazy hella fast yes, but that thing wouldn't turn to save it's life.....nothing could be done. But it was FAAAAST! The Suzuki GT 750 Water Buffalo was the same. In my opinion the best 2 stroke streetbike (in North America) was the Honda NS400R. The Suzuki RG500 Gamma and WalterWolf were a close second. The RD's were ok ( I had an RD400 Daytona Special) the RZ350 were good, the RZ500 was a dog. Still a few of the mentioned bikes riding around the Victoria area during the spring/summer.
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JG463 11/3/2012 11:38pm
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I have a 74 that's all original about 4400 miles I bought out of some guys garage that he described as "some bike". I'm posting from my phone buy I will try and get some pictures up later.
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TerryK 11/4/2012 4:50am
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When set up right? Crazy hella fast yes, but that thing wouldn't turn to save it's life.....nothing could be done. But it was FAAAAST! The Suzuki...
When set up right? Crazy hella fast yes, but that thing wouldn't turn to save it's life.....nothing could be done. But it was FAAAAST! The Suzuki GT 750 Water Buffalo was the same. In my opinion the best 2 stroke streetbike (in North America) was the Honda NS400R. The Suzuki RG500 Gamma and WalterWolf were a close second. The RD's were ok ( I had an RD400 Daytona Special) the RZ350 were good, the RZ500 was a dog. Still a few of the mentioned bikes riding around the Victoria area during the spring/summer.
The NS was a slug. The RG would eat it for breakfast. Handled great though. The RDs were bulletproof. light and fast.
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kawirider819 11/4/2012 7:06am
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Damn, my pops H2 has been sitting in the garage for years. I'm contemplating making it my next fix er up project. I remember him riding that thing down the street when I was a kid and thinking it was going Mach 1, hell it probably was.

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Drtbykr 11/4/2012 7:40am
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Brother had the orange 500, there were so many in Fredericton you couldn't count them all. I only knew one guy with the 750, big lad, he needed it. Friend of mine had a water buffalo a bit later, seemed like a puddy tat compared to these.

Biggest motorcycle regret is getting the 750K instead of a Kawi 900....but at 18 it is all kind of crazy. Biggest relief is being alive aftr the crazy streetbike youth. Dirt only now, I'll take a broken bone over a casket, as would my kids for their dear old dad.

I got a new CB750K in grade 12, and later had a chance to ride the 500, what a light switch! I had a TM400 too a couple of years before for a summer (didn't race it but rode it a lot, it was fun), it was safer! Only bike I ever rode that was more hair trigger was a pro mx friends black Can-Am 250 (man, I could look at that bike for hours).

Bring an extra pair of undies, plugs, and a plug wrench. And use someone else's licence...use your kids. Hooligan bikes fer sure.
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motogrady 11/4/2012 7:57am
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Knew a guy that had an H2.
Rode it for a while, then scrapped it.
Asked him why he didn't just sell it.
"I'm not gonna be the reason some kid get's killed" was his answer.

They were just too much.

Kawa819, you get that thing running, it's a cool thing to have.
Many will look at it in awe.

Just be careful with it, respect it.
It's a killer bike, in more ways than one.
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justpinit 11/4/2012 9:13am
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Scariest ride I have ever had on a motorized vehicle of any kind! Took a 15 min rip on a buddies 750 in the late '70's because I thought it sounded cool.

More near misses and overshot turns in that 15 mins than I've had in the entire 30+ yrs since then! But it DID sound cool!
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Myke 11/4/2012 9:46am
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Here's mine before I took it apart. Everything has been refinshed, crank rebuilt, trans done, and bored. I had it repainted the stock '75 purple.

It still sits in pieces because I am disgusted with how much money it took. The engine has been sitting unassembled for a couple years now, so I would pobably have to go through it again.

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motogrady 11/4/2012 11:38am
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Went thru high school on a blue 500 h1, a mach 3.
Stoplight to stoplight, that 500 was the quickest vehicle in town, bar none.
The Honda 750-4 would pull me in 4th, it was the only threat to the Kawasaki's.

But the h-2, forget about it, gone, in an instant.
project racer 11/4/2012 6:05pm
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My older brother had a 72 H2 like the blue one above during his senior year in high school. He had a crazy friend that would climb on the back for some through the gearbox, two up wheelies after school let out.

Recall seeing the late Dave Shultz campaigning an H2 in Pro Stock into the early 90's. What a high strung bike that was.
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Myke 11/4/2012 8:14pm
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This is better





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headache 11/5/2012 8:41am
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the 72 H2's were the first and fastest year of the 750's. too bad they didn't turn worth a crap. kawi even put a steering dampener on the later models (at least on the 500cc models anyway) but it still didn't help with headshake or the abiltiy to take a curve at any decent speed. But man throw on some expansion chamber exhaust and have a blast down the straight aways!!
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Bill Dance 11/5/2012 8:43am
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The NS400 is not a pimple on the ass of the RG500. The RG500 was literally too dangerous for the general public to ride when it came out, and not much has changed 25 years later.
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holeshot100 11/5/2012 10:21am
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Here is my 1975 I bought brand new when I was 16. Restored it about 3 years ago and already put about 10k miles of Ozark backroads on it. Just as much to ride now as when I was a kid

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Here is another 2 smoker..My beer runner special: Painted in the "GT40 Gulf Scheme" to match the TLD "Steve McQueen Edition " helmet. Ford made that GT40 and went over to Europe and kicked Ferrari and all the other manufactures asses!



Having a little fun on the RD in the woods:

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vet323 11/5/2012 12:01pm
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My brother-in-law is building his H2 this winter. He is modifying the frame and adding a modern aluminum swingarm, modern front forks/triples and modern wheels and brakes. It should be fun if he can get rid of the "spring-loaded hinged frame" effect the old bike had.

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