Anyone got an extra 15 grand they could give me?

[Fred W]

15k??? hmmm Why don't you Pawn some stuff in your house

Yeah man, check between those sofa cushions...

 

[FJRBluesman]

KM - That thing is perfect! But it's abused, not even 100 miles on it, that's motorcycle abuse.

Reminds me of my old H1. Not as pretty as the perfect H2 shown, but...

 

[charismaticmegafauna]

I don't think anyone made a faster bike than the original (73 & 74) Z1's until Suzuki's GS1000.

I had a friend with a Suzuki GS1000 (back-in-the-day) that he was sure was the fastest thing on the road. Until -- he had a couple, impromptu, drag-races with an '82 Honda CX500 Turbo. He said: "I thought, when the Turbo was ahead of me initially, that it was probably because the smaller engined bike had lower gearing? But, when it was ahead all thru 2nd gear -- I knew it was all-over..."

Technology rules...! Take a low-compression 500cc push-rod v-twin; add a 200,000+ rpm turbo-charger with 18lbs of boost and computerized electronic fuel-injection -- instant super-bike killer...

(if you can live-with that mean little devil -- turbo-charger, that is...?)

 

[charismaticmegafauna]

Come to think of it..., a nasty, high boost, poorly modulated, turbo is alot like a big, wildly ported, angry 2-stroke.

In the words of 'King Kenny', "They don't pay me enough to ride that thing."

 

[wfooshee]

Kawasaki in the '70's.Some rare and fast ones.

Millyard's a genius. His bikes still look like they could've come off Kawasaki's own line.

I've seen that V8 at Barber, and had a glance at a 5-cyl 2-stroke there that he built. I've never seen any of his others in person. What with them being uncommon and all. . . .

 

[Rolavine]

Amazing how three decades dims the memory of fouled plugs, oil smoke, no brakes, crap your pants cornering, and ..... humm that does look pretty how many gallons go in the oil tank?

 

[Fred W]

I had a '75 Suzuki GT550 2-stroke triple. It was a hell of a bike.

Yeah, it smoked, and made funny noises (ring-a-ding-ding-ding), and oozed goey spooge from the exhaust (especially if you used Klotz synthetic 2-stroke oil), and it didn't really handle all that great either, but a lot of that was the crap that they had for bike tires back in the day.

It was my first bike with a disk brake, so I thought it stopped great at the time, but it really didn't. :glare:

It also had oil injection which worked fine for as long as owned it.

I shipped it out to my Brother in Law in Misery when I bought a K100RT

and I never looked back.

2-strokes are best left in the dirt, IMO.

 

[wheatonFJR]

....In 1980 raced a guy that worked for me. We were leaving work and he was getting on his new XS1100 and commented about my bike: " that was a really nice bike .... in its day." Fightin' words if ever there were any!

We went out and raced and I whupped him so bad I thought he missed 2nd gear. Twice. I waited a few weeks to tell him I was running a high compression bore kit and cams.

I don't think anyone made a faster bike than the original (73 & 74) Z1's until Suzuki's GS1000. I never raced a 750 triple but have read they were very close if the 750 rider could keep the front wheel down.

Yeah, well that guy on the Eleven musta been a putz, because my silly 20 yo *** whupped a guy on a 78 GS1000 with my 79 Eleven.

...and I didn't even know how to ride that thing. The one and only time I drag raced...

EDIT: A google image of my first bike 1977 CB550F.

It was a girl's bike...pretty, but no guts. The 1979 XS Eleven fixed that. Who needs that college money anyway, when you're a 20 yo and you NEED a real motorcycle?

 

[FJRMGM]

15k??? hmmm Why don't you Pawn some stuff in your house

Yeah man, check between those sofa cushions...

Ahhhh man, I had one of those. There was not a mosquito for a block around when you got on that ZINGER!!

Other than that, it was a pig.

 

[Patriot]

for moi, it only got better and better...even in the curves and when stopping...