Kawasaki Triples Club

I'm on holiday in the Netherlands and on Sunday we went to Oldtimerdag ( "oldtimer day" ) in a place called Ruinerwold. This is a small village completely taken over by cars, bikes and tractors ( about 1500 ) which parade during the day. It was excellent and free ( other than 5 euro to park - fair enough). There are some videos on youtube if you are interested.

Lots of nice bikes - loads of smaller two strokes like Zundapps and Kriedlers. The Dutch don't seem to overrestore their bikes like we do and most just looked original .

Now the point of this post. Not only were there no Kawasaki triples but there were no Kawasakis whatsoever at the show ( out of hundreds of bikes ) The only Kawasaki we did see was a 1990's 750 parked in the visitors carpark. Did they not import Kawasakis into Holland until the 90's or whatever ? Very strange .

cheers

Hardly !!
A major player in Kawasakis in the early days.,...comparitve to UK anyway !!

I have an S2 from the Netherlands here awaiting restoration. S2F-00093. Got to be close to first one into Europe ?

Henk Vink was Der Man. Twin engined z1 dragbike. Didn`t he import Kawa`s for a while ??

Kawasaki set their European hub up in Holland as well when they took control from local import agents in the 70's.

Hal wrote:Kawasaki set their European hub up in Holland as well when they took control from local import agents in the 70's.

Just about to add that bit of info.

Neil the Don wrote:Hardly !!
A major player in Kawasakis in the early days.,...comparitve to UK anyway !!

I have an S2 from the Netherlands here awaiting restoration. S2F-00093. Got to be close to first one into Europe ?

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S2-00003 arrived there :wink: . . . But Yes, Holland had more Kawasaki's than we did!!!

saw a finland numbers plate S2 in Margate on early july 1972 but haven't noticed the frame or engine nulbers at this time