Listen to this baby: 1973 Kawasaki H1D 500cc : specs in description
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 เม.ย. 2019
- This bike belongs to Paul, my partner in Beechdale Motorcycles.
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This was 2 stroke 70s technologie. Sound & smell.! Had a ‘73 Mach III Triple too.
Wish I still had it. Great memories in highschool.!!
The SCREAM this bike lets out when you rev it up is just undescribable. Never matched to this day.
Mmm the banshee wail a beautiful sound!! Not to mention that smell of a 2-stroke
I'm happy that I got to ride through the 2 stroke era, and owned a few as well 👍
120 degree two stroke triple. Evil sounding indeed!
Love it!
I had an RD 250 on L plates, and a GT 380 right after my test.... glory days mate, Two strokes made hooligans that grew into Bikers.. Thanks for the reminder mate.
Those 2 stroke 380s and 550s used to blitz 2 stroke smoke when the throttle was opened up. 😁
Sorry I missed this comment. I could have had a 250 but for some weird reason went for the gp100.
My dad had an original Kwasaki H2 750 triple. I want to get one myself someday.
I had one of these fantastic beasties that I got as part of a trade for a car in the early eighties. My friend who I did the trade from himself got it used and went through it just to clean it up. The only modification he did that I know of was to replace the air cleaners. I never thought to ask but something that mine did isn’t something that I hear about with other riders. When I was already zooming along and gave a good twist to the throttle it behaved in such a way that I named it Millennial Falcon. What it did was dump a bunch of fuel into each of those three carburetors. Initially flooding the engine.
Then it all would explode.
The bog down was weird at first and of course the rush of power when it all was unleashed was something to recon with. It really felt like how they depicted going to light speed.
After I knew what’s coming though and leaned forward and held on for dear life (yes really) the adrenaline rush and the feel of that untamed power is something I will always remember. The seemingly instant speed.
I rode this around town and when I wasn’t blasting down the freeway it was pretty good zipping to work or with a backpack a trip to the store. I guess it could have handled a bit better but it was better than the chopped Sportster I had a few years before.
I’ll always love my Millennium Falcon..
When I had kids I quit riding. These days my kids have made it clear that they don’t think that I should get another bike and they likely would be correct if somehow I got another one of these or something equivalent.
❤Thank you for helping me recall these memories.
Had s green meanie 73 triple expansion chamber. Love that noise. Finally had to sell it as having a kid 94 so I sold it .
I miss that bike.
You could always get another 😉
I bet you do😢😢 they’re beautiful machines that sound is so unique plus the smell of a 2-stroke, Mmm… My father owns 3 we get to take them out probably once a month or 2👍🏾 we’ll run a tank to 2/3rds a tank through them then take them back home and spend the afternoon cleaning them my favourite would have to be his white 69 but I’m happy to ride any of them…. I hope your able to get yourself another one day!! They’re getting harder and harder to find nowadays (well they are here in Australia)
Its a dream bike, I grew up with 2 strokes, so light and that power band. Have two at the minute an RG125 and an RXS100 and they pull so well, its such a laugh i now want a 500cc 2 stroke!
That model in that colour is my fave H1 thanks for the trip down memory lane
Beautiful. Now that’s a 70s classic. Wish I could smell it 😋
I bought one exactly the same in 1978, traded from a cb200 honda, I only knew two speeds, stop, and flat out.
My first bike was a H2 750 triple. Good starter bike haha
I bought a Kawasaki S1C 250cc JNN 632P and two friends bought one each within weeks JNN634P and JNN636P and when we all rode out together the sound of three two stroke Triples even just the 250cc ones was something else. Fantastic bikes.
I can imagine that sounded amazing. May be worth going to a triple meeting to see if we can reproduce that sound. ☺
I first learned to ride on a 2 stroke, a Suzuki GT380 back in 1973. It had no torque down low and I was forever stalling it. Good memories though.
When i was a kid, a bloke at bottom of road had a suzuki 250gt.ram air twin. Can still hear it now has it ticked over while he got his gloves on and rode off to the pub, wiff of oil... aaahh luvly.
The neutral at the bottom of the shift pattern was convenient, but could be hazardous.
I'm old enough, and lucky enough, to catch the tale end od the 2 stroke with the 125!!!! Fond memories!
Sounds lovely when it's wound up.
sounds great,looks lovely
Music to my ears
One day I'll own one of these!
Beautiful, beautiful machines.
How about today. I have 1975 missing the tank everything else is mint plus
The sound of my youth!
That is quite something..... That sound and that colour!! ♥
Had one in that colour for my first road bike in 1974. Great fun
Loving the sound. Am sure my mates elder brother had an H2 triple at once time and it was a handful. Sure his girlfriend came off the back when he raced someone off the lights. That was back in/ around 1979/1980 i think. Something great about 2 strokes noise-wise.
What a sound!!!
Wow! No wonder it felt powerful... 500cc in a 2 stroke. It's got about 20% more power than my modern day 500. I guess the triple cylinder config and (relatively for a 2Stroke) large displacement are why the decent torque feeling you described.
Geez the habit of kicking down to engage first is so strong - totally unconscious I guess :)
Amazing sound, would of liked to of seen you rev it out though!
Well, _someone_ is having fun!
wonderfull, i ad the same in 1975 🤪👍
ratatattatatat ding ding ding.
My first bike was a two stroke 125cc, just love that sound.
You couldn't bloody stop revving it, you could you 😂
Never! 😂
A rin ga ding ding ding. Nice sound
Picked it as a 2smoke just by the sound.
Just recently learned of this bike and had to research. I owned an '86 trx250R and recognized that 2 stroke sound well. Just think if they made fuel injected 2 stroke engines today.
The Orange 1972 H1-B was the first of the front disc brake not the Green 73🤔🤔…. Absolutely beautiful machines though my father has 1969 in white, the Blue 1971 H1-A and an Orange 1972 H1-B both the 69 and 71 are 100% original after restoration the 72 is 99.99% original except for the pipes the pipes on her are off a 71 I believe🤔🤔 the difference is at the open end of the pipes!! The 71 pipes look like they’re straight cut and the 72 pipes have a rolled over edge or vice-versa that’s the only difference… I’m so jealous of anyone who owns an old Mach3
Want it❤️👍🏻
Ah, two-stroke heaven.
Learning to ride, chasing birds and growing up in the early 1990s.
After a 15 year break from riding, I took a few taster lessons on a Suzuki SV650. I was bitterly disappointed.
Crappy response, crazy engine braking and worst of all there was no tone/character to the engine.
I agree with you fully - Why don't they make bikes like these any more?!
They were really fast bikes but they had one major flaw you couldn’t go around the corner with them.
A buddy of mine had a 69 model and he took it out to Riverside Raceway and Road raced it he use to fall a lot.
You lucky, lucky sod!!!
I'd love to see a video on your Suzuki GP100 if you still have it as that was my first bike. Fond and not so fond memories!
Scott I rebuilt mine in my bedroom. Painted it too. I can’t believe what my mum let me get away with. Yellow frame and red bodywork. Looked proper shit it did when I finished 😂
Wow that bikes older then me 🤪🤪
The were called The Widow Maker over here and there was also a 750 triple!
I love my electric bike, and I've never understood the people who say they'd miss the sound because to me all modern bikes sound like fire pumps (singles or twins) or sewing machines. But this, this I would swap for.
Try it without the baffles in the exhaust !!
omg a 2 stroke havent heard that in a while
Sounds great for a 40 something year old bike. 2stroke sound
One of my dream bikes when I was a kid.
Disappointed no walk around!
There was a "stand next n rev". 😂
Even two stroke chainsaws and trimmers have stopped been made it's all 4 strokes or leccy now.
Had 70 h1 fun went 138 according to speedo and wanted to go more but I did not, model without front disc brakes
For the real SCREAM, you have to rev it up between 5,5k and 8,5k ;)
Yep, they're made to be revved.
I wouldn’t have remembered where the choke was on my GP100 🤣
Bottom of left switchgear operated with left thumb. ☺ I had one.
Put expansion chambers on and re-jet the carbs and it will really want to throw your ass off the back!
They were ho hum till you hit 6000 rpm then all hell broke loose.
looks like my old GPZ 550 1984
You didn't even hit the power band,,,,It starts @6000 RPM.
Wasn't my bike so was being respectful but this summer we'll do a proper back to back upload with my Rd250lc. ☺
Noisey, smelly and rattly as hell.
But fun tzr125 loved it, throw it round everywhere and a quick tasty blast on a Ns400r arm ripper..
1972 as L reg no plate.
Could have been registered January 73. Registrations were from August
www.theaa.com/car-buying/number-plates
Could be 72 that had a prang sandwich and refitted 73 style. Who knows. All i remember is my friend had one in 1977. We used to ride in same gang. I worked for a motorcycle dealer.. most 500s 350s kawis had been pranged.The 1972 did have separate instruments and yours has The instrument consol which came in 73 so what your saying seems to be good. The 750s were pretty rare in UK but 250kh and 400 you would see. Like a lot of classics most of them are rebuilds early 80s when first nostalgia trips came in. Not saying yours is a rebuild but didn't see any green kwacker 500s in UK. They were all brown purple.and the 350s were red. Yes sure by the time kh 250s and 400s came along a lot of green or red. Anyway great bikes and nice to hear that great sound.
@@rutherfojr you know your stuff. Thanks for the info. ☺
I had the H1D in 1978 rebuilt it in my mums spare front room. Scared many times.