Barn find H1R

[Nigel S]

This bike was found in Norfolk.

[Nigel S]

It has been moved on very quickly. Was offered it for £6500 to start with. But once he knew what he had the price doubled.
Went to see it today. Thinking that maybe I should have bought it.

[Nigel S]

Some more pictures.

[robh1f]

13 grand for a genuine H1R...... a steal.

[Triple Parts]

Wow, that's a proper barn find!

[Nigel S]

13 grand for a genuine H1R...... a steal.

Would have been better at £6500 Rob

[malc87]

Ive had quite a few people contact me about it!
I remained on the sidelines giving everyone the info they asked for.
Only Nigel asked what it would be worth done up!
and no one asked what is it really worth now!
Most people did not really have a clue what it really was or how rare it really is.
More tomorrow with pictures

[Klawsuc]

Going back a few years a man from London contacted me about buying some Kawasaki W1 parts he was restoring. While speaking to him he told me he used to drag race some british bikes.
Whilst he was drag racing in Holland he met Henk Vink and they became friends, Kawasaki wanted Henk to drag race a H1R and gave him a NOS one but he never bothered, This guy i spoke to told me that Henk gave him this bike for free to try in the UK but HE never did. He told me it was an older model so now had no value.
About a month later i phoned him but his wife told me he had had a stroke but was stable. I left it another month and phoned back and he said he was OK but was going to leave the bikes and concentrate on other more important things. I never did get back to him and lost his number,

[malc87]

So this was the H1R for sale.
Cliff Carr is sign written on the rear seat
So looks like an Ex Cliff Carr machine probably from his first year at Daytona. Machine was supplied by Kevin Cameron ,famous tuner for Kawasaki"s, and he also was involved or owned the Arlington motor sports dealership who Cliff later raced full time for.
Frame number looks to be 00035 but it's hard to read AND poorly stamped
I don't think the frame is original
The factory supplied frames for H1R and H2R were not perfectly round on the headstock.
They were "flattened off" where the number was stamped on.
They should also all start 90000 .
Quite common to use after market frames in the USA.
Cliff used a "Frank Cemerilli" frame on his H2R (which actually used a H2 engine with Cylinders reversed and altered to H2R spec and the bike ran a H1R dry clutch assembly)
The factory replacement frames had "Made by Kawasaki "next to where the frame number should be stamped on.
This H1R has a larger "Isle of Man" tank on it.
After market ceriani forks and fontana front brake, non standard swinging arm and rear shocks.
Also sports Krobor electronic ignition and Krobor rev counter
Ive a video of the cylinders and it has the later H1R-A update cylinders with bridged inlet ports, which were quite a thick bridging piece, way thicker than the 69H1 road bike.
The cylinders on this one are tuned and the bridge part is really thin!


Below is the first few lines from an article I was already doing about Cliff for the triples club magazine


At the 1970 Daytona 200 I had a rider injured on my 500 Kawasaki H1R triple. He was very talented but lacked big-bike experience. We rushed over to Halifax Hospital to see how he was doing, but of course there was no info and, no, we couldn’t see him.
At somewhat loose ends after, I decided to learn to fly. Yet I had also written to Cliff Carr, an experienced English rider I’d met at the speedway, asking if he’d like to come to the US to ride the H1R.
About the time that I was supposed to show up at a local airport and get serious about flying, here came a letter from Cliff. “Yes to the H1R. Arriving Boston such-and-such a day.”
That was the end of flying—back to the races!
Cliff and his wife Diane walked into our store in Arlington, Massachusetts, the week before Valentine’s Day, 1971, and we set to work preparing for Daytona.

[Davy Sprocket]

i think a friend of a friend got it not allowed to say how much- Rumer was it was a ginger molly bike but who knows?? unusual one should also turn up at huggys the same week !! common as much those hir s

[Davy Sprocket]

sorry just fell in one and the same bike thought their were two around doh!