Please help find me . . . LVS 877V

[El Presidente]

In 1979, aged 16 I was totally consumed, at the expense of all my studies, with the forthcoming purchase of my first motorcycle. I decided to wait the extra year and opt for a Kawasaki KH 100EL brand new and shining in its blue livery from “K Motorcycles of Bedford”, missing out the Fizzy stage which all my school mates were screaming about on at the time.
In the intervening months before being legally allowed to ride it, my Dad would don a spare lid and take us both off to an abandoned wartime airbase at Stow Longa near Kimbolton and teach me to ride safely, keeping a watchful, paternal eye on my inept wobblings, and probably ruminating on the lecture he would receive from my Mum if I so much as scraped a knee in the learning process.
My Dad, the consummate professional airline Captain, worked long and uncivilized hours, often far from home but he would always find the time on his precious days off to take me as pillion for my riding lessons.
Off we would go in a cloud of blue haze, the little 99cc making a huge fuss, hauling Senior and Junior off to our destination on those cloudless Spring and Summer afternoons.
I lost my beloved father to a sudden heart attack just over a year ago, and the pangs of loss have turned my memory back to that golden time.
I have over the years previously owned a BSA Lightning, BMW R80, Triumph NL (1929) and presently ride a Hinckley BonnevilleT100 and 1978 Honda CB400 Four but the giant chasm in my garage is that little, otherwise unremarkable Kwaka… what I wouldn’t offer to bring it back home.
The DVLA tell me it is out there somewhere, maybe rotting gently under a tarpaulin, and I would jump at the chance to purchase it back and restore. In that two-stroke haze I’ll have something tangible to go alongside those memories of my wonderful father.

Kawasaki KH 100EL – first registered Bedford 1980 – registration LVS 877V

Paul Wilmot
0777 600 7534

pmbwilmot@icloud.com

[h2crazy]

well my dad wouldn't let me have a sports moped ,I had to make do with puch ms50v ,with leg shields, and it only had 2 gears with handlebar change. all my mates had gilera trials/tourers,ktm,fizzie ap50s etc and moi had to suffer the indignity of being burnt off at every opportunity, but,
I took all their names (not holding a grudge of course) and blasted them into oblivion when I got my "superbike" suzuki gt185.hah take that.
but the old fella was right about starting off steady.unfortunately I lost him 34 years ago when I was 21.and I frequently think about what he would wonder about my bikes now!
hopefully you will find it, and it will bring back many fond memories!!!!!

[S2Gerald]

Not exactly your old bike, but probably cheaper than restoring it!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/KAWASAKI-KH-1 ... 2a3b0ff8ad

[SAM]

I could not find my S3A NPP896P but found NPP866P bought same place week before i picked up mine from Ken Kay. Now back on road.