The Roaring Season

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Nice, but this is my favourite Kawasaki triple from the 70s...

The Kwaka in #41 is very nice, even to a non Kwaka person.

Would this be Eric Bones?

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Check out trade me under Kawasaki 500 H1, I am sure this is the same bike.

crunch wrote:Thats the one I need!
Found the ex-Trevor Discombe TZ750, now to try to entice the owner to part with it...

Hey Crunch,
I have a friend I was talking to during the weekend who has an immaculate TZ750 he will be selling shortly if youre interested....

GD66 wrote:Nice, but this is my favourite Kawasaki triple from the 70s...
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Oh; that is mouth-watering! Is that the 250 2 stroke?

YES! please get him to email me on mailto:?subject=&body=

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First up a Kawasaki Z 1000 along with a Kawasaki 900 Z1B and the Kawasaki 250 SAMURAI
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A Kawaski A1SS - not many of them around - I 've ridden the A7SS Avenger, back in the day......great bikes! It was quicker than my 350 Triple. That's a seriously nice garage.

crunch wrote:Oh; that is mouth-watering! Is that the 250 2 stroke?

500 H1R-A. Yummy, huh ?

Be as rare as rocking-horse poo no doubt. Wonder if it's for sale?

They are very scarce, that one was photographed at Dijon. Ginger Molloy rode one to second in the world 500 title in 1970 behind Ago's MV. This one, in fact...

In his book, Croz said he raced one here. That and a Kawasaki 750 H2 in the production races.
In the pic above bike has twin leading discs.
Discs were not fitted till 72 on production bikes, so what year is this pic GD66 ?
In pic 46 the H1R has drum brakes.
Dave Simmons 1971 Title winning H1R bike had drums.

Shouldn't these bikes be on a new thread? We seem to have drifted away from the OP's thread.

Not today, but is this the design for a sprint version or a motorkhana car?

Twin steer Toyota. Easy for parking.

John McKechnie wrote:In the pic above bike has twin leading discs.
Discs were not fitted till 72 on production bikes, so what year is this pic GD66 ?

Dave Simmons 1971 Title winning H1R bike had drums.

Correct, the Molloy bike lives in Vic these days and is owned and ridden by Brendan May : his brother Brad rides the similar ex-Kenny Blake H1-R. I suspect the pic is from the early 2000s, as we don't see them much these days, but the Period 4 class they run in has a 1972 cutoff, and I'd say the discs are off a 1972 Suzuki GT750.


ERC, the bikes should probably be on a separate thread but it is after all a THREAD, which do tend to meander all over the joint. Plenty of other recent threads have morphed into warm fuzzy love-ins and mutual appreciation societies, which I think is one of the best features of a forum of this nature, re-uniting race friends and foes alike, with a common passion having laid dormant for far too long. Surely that's a good thing ! But a separate thread is ok too, so I've PM'd our fearless leader to swing into mod mode.

Thanks GD66. Totally agree. There are so many enthusiasts on here for the bikes, I just felt that it would get more hits as a dedicated thread, as I can't be the only one who doesn't read every post in every single thread. Who knows what is hidden in the depths of some of these threads?

There is some great stuff on here and i am sure that for those who are somewhat isolated by virtue of working for themselves, are retired or living away, diving in is a substitute for old the tea room chat.

ERC wrote:There is some great stuff on here and i am sure that for those who are somewhat isolated by virtue of working for themselves, are retired or living away, diving in is a substitute for old the tea room chat.

...and some of us trapped at home looking after 3 pre-schoolers that happened along late in life!...now where have they gone, it's very quiet

Spotted this last month a very nice car and pretty rare.This one is the real deal.

Local tradesman. Sorry, I can't for the life of me name it (not my forte), so I know you guys will, so that I can file it!...

Super clean South-African Perana...check out this dual purpose unit!