Kawasaki Triples Club

Hilly wrote:A brand new s1c HOR 814N bought from Bob Gollner Kawasaki Portsmouth in May 1975. Sold it a year later for Z1b.

was that on the corner of Elm Grove in Southsea , or when they moved to Denmead

I always remember going into the Southsea shop and drooling over the triples, but couldn't afford one

bought set of ARE wheels there!

Kezsam1 wrote:

Hilly wrote:A brand new s1c HOR 814N bought from Bob Gollner Kawasaki Portsmouth in May 1975. Sold it a year later for Z1b.

was that on the corner of Elm Grove in Southsea , or when they moved to Denmead

I always remember going into the Southsea shop and drooling over the triples, but couldn't afford one

It was the shop at Denmead. They had all the triple range on show. If I remember correctly they were on raised platforms inside the showroom. Brand new S3's, blue H1f's, purple h2c's. my idea of heaven!..Needless to say I was a regular visitor.

Hilly wrote:

Kezsam1 wrote:

Hilly wrote:A brand new s1c HOR 814N bought from Bob Gollner Kawasaki Portsmouth in May 1975. Sold it a year later for Z1b.

was that on the corner of Elm Grove in Southsea , or when they moved to Denmead

I always remember going into the Southsea shop and drooling over the triples, but couldn't afford one

It was the shop at Denmead. They had all the triple range on show. If I remember correctly they were on raised platforms inside the showroom. Brand new S3's, blue H1f's, purple h2c's. my idea of heaven!..Needless to say I was a regular visitor.

great little place its a bloody estate agents now

My first triple i had was in 1978

White KH 250 B4 JKX 295 V,1st August 1979 "V " reg day Ken Kay Kawasaki in Luton My 17th birthday is the 16th!!!,,did lots of miles before I was 17 ,only had L plates on for the day of my test !,Happy days

Hilly wrote:

Kezsam1 wrote:

Hilly wrote:A brand new s1c HOR 814N bought from Bob Gollner Kawasaki Portsmouth in May 1975. Sold it a year later for Z1b.

was that on the corner of Elm Grove in Southsea , or when they moved to Denmead

I always remember going into the Southsea shop and drooling over the triples, but couldn't afford one

It was the shop at Denmead. They had all the triple range on show. If I remember correctly they were on raised platforms inside the showroom. Brand new S3's, blue H1f's, purple h2c's. my idea of heaven!..Needless to say I was a regular visitor.

Do you remember the H2 Wasp he had for sidecar cross?
On hard pack it was so fast, in mud it just dug great big trenches everywhere !

kawasaki kh250 1976,wanted an s1c but one year to late. OSG 5P was the number. The mechanic at the shop,Better Bikes Kawasaki had OSG 1P on a z900

Does anybody know anyone that had a 69 H1 back in the day or is there somebody in the club who did

1977 Built a bitsa from a non-running H1B & an utterly written off KH500.
Loved it.
Except when the J&R's fractured, making it really loud.

KHA 128L p/x (+£300) for my R5 Yamaha cafe racer, from Allins, Cambridge in 1977, sold it to Mr De'ath (honest... ), Bristol for £900 in 79 (approx £4.5K in today's money).



Yes I did saw the rear mudguard off...



11.98 @ 109 mph in 78

stevie747 wrote:KHA 128L p/x (+£300) for my R5 Yamaha cafe racer, from Allins, Cambridge in 1977, sold it to Mr De'ath (honest... ), Bristol for £900 in 79 (approx £4.5K in today's money).

Could then be the bike that Paul De'ath rode all over Europe, from Portugal in the west and to as far as Greece in the east? RB put a picture of his bike in one of the very early club newsletters as probably one of the worlds most widely ridden H2's

Hal wrote:

stevie747 wrote:KHA 128L p/x (+£300) for my R5 Yamaha cafe racer, from Allins, Cambridge in 1977, sold it to Mr De'ath (honest... ), Bristol for £900 in 79 (approx £4.5K in today's money).

Could then be the bike that Paul De'ath rode all over Europe, from Portugal in the west and to as far as Greece in the east? RB put a picture of his bike in one of the very early club newsletters as probably one of the worlds most widely ridden H2's

Could be, how many De'ath's own H2's (maybe he should've called it a 'Widower maker' ).

He almost didn't buy it off me, after coming up from Bristol in a van with some mates, I took him out on it and he literally shit himself It was wet but I still managed a few 2nd gear two-up wheelies and when we got back he was shaking like a leaf - his mates got him to buy it. They chucked it in the van and with no straps, they drove off holding it up in the back I think I mentioned all this in the Superbike Hairy Tales story I did at the time.

Have you got the Superbike report. Can you put it on here??

Gary557 wrote:Have you got the Superbike report. Can you put it on here??

I think someone has it scanned somewhere (maybe malc ), my original copy is deep in the loft somewhere....

Bit of photo restoration and you can see the flares better.

Cool.... if you look closely you can see a pair of (mega loud ) Fiamm airhorns (in the correct place and the right way up ) which were a unique upgrade for an H2, as I was running pods, it left space for the air compressor under the seat, which obviously justified chucking away the airbox...

Well.......this is my first H2B back in 1977 in Dayton, Ohio........doing a wheelie as that was standard procedure.......no shirt or helmet.......(Young, Dumb and Full of @#$$......Stupid)

Not a good PIC, but it's real

Then a Pic in Dallas, Texas on my Brothers Z-1 about a year or two later, still had braces in........notice the head pipes are white

And a Pic of the weather today here......Wow

THX Phil

great pics

2014 - yep, really.
A bit slow to getting round to ownership(H2b) but hoping to fix that with the over zealous use/abuse of that nasty fossil fuel

Rich

Heres my consumer of all that nasty oily fossil gunk

1982 .....kawasaki S2 350 bought from a local dealer for £200 spent quite a bit on it BWV 53L I sold it for £450 to some bloke called Rick Brett around 1990.It was sold last year on the bay for £4500 I contacted the seller and he still had the receipts for all the bits I bought. Now in the process of getting an S2a new to this sight but enjoying the banter already.