What I'm doing when not fixing oil leaks on the SD

Just fitted a brand new pair of Z1 twin discs to my H2. Pretty good performance really for 70's technology - miles better than the OE single disc set up but not quite as good as the modern billet six-pot calliper I have run on a single disc for the last few years. But looks way better. Just love those two massive lumps of steel sticking out over the front wheel! Discs are 6mm thick - weigh a ton so it helps to keep the front end down! Ha ha.

Jeez Bic, those discs look like they belong on a car, from the old days when less attention was spent on minimising unsprung mass and reducing polar moments of inertia (making rotating objects change direction more easily)...
I'm sure that ol' stinkwheel is a bit of a hoot to ride, in an unsophisticated and slightly scary way

Those old disc's are great in wet weather!! LOL!

Love that bike, love the colors!

My Superduke's all black, I've always been a black bike person.

But purple and chrome was the only way to be in 1975

what a great second choice for a ride - I remember very well thrashing one of those around the local racetracks a long time ago - they were extremely fast at that time and part of the reason they felt soooo fast was because they were ordinary in other areas. That was part of the thrill back in the old days, hanging on for dear life whilst wringing its neck to get decent lap times. And the sound they made when the throttle was pinned was something special.
what a great example bic - good for you

Kawi 750 H2 Triple

A brute of a bike in it's day & the one I had my worst crash ever on. All engine with a crap frame & crap suspension. Good for straight line fun but don't try any serious braking and turning, with the stock setup anyway. Gorgeous bike though BTW

Nice Bike I cant imagine what the powerband is like on it ??...I'm thinking of the IT490 I rode a few times.. eeek !

The H1 500s have a pretty fierce power-band and even the 400s that I had back in the day needed to be kept on the boil to make any good progress otherwise they just bog down and are pretty slow. But these 750s are really different (especially this C model compared to the A) and have a load of low down torque and a very progressive power curve. It's surprising to most people but you can ride around short-shifting if you want and they are very civilised and easy to ride without having to slip the clutch and rev to the limit all the time. Not to say there isn't a big rush at the top end though when you ride that way. Then they do go bonkers and pretty much live up to their reputation.

The one I crashed was the first year Blue tank model. Had not been tamed down yet but was no where as peaky as the White tank H1. Still the hardest accelerating bike of it's day though. Right close to the end of the two smoke era.

When I started looking for an H2 I wanted the original blue '71 H2. Because they are the first and the meanest and the most iconic. But they are just so expensive in the UK and come up for sale very rarely. And I was torn because the posters I had on my wall as a school kid were all of the purple 1975 H2c and that was the bike I always dreamed to own. As a designer I see the world through aesthetic eyes and the C is, without doubt, the most elegant and well proportioned H2 and it was the last one so it holds a place in my heart. When one came op for sale I had to have it and I don't regret the decision.

Now I've become familiar over the years with the Kawasaki Triples forums and the community I see that the way to go is that you start to collect the entire range. When you go to a rally or triples meet the first question people ask is, "So how many have you got in the garage?"

It seems that owning only one seen as quite weird!