Kawasaki 1972 H2 750 Wheelie jaunt to brothers house Bone Stock Engine!! soulreaver@hotmail.com
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- FOR SALE 402 718 4208 DANIEL soulreaver1963@hotmail.com 1972 Kawasaki H2 H2F 09001 & H2E 09026 10.547.0 Original Miles (Until the speedometer gave up the ghost 6/1/2015) All Stock Engine, STD Standard Bore, Stock Carburetors 97.5 Main Jet, 35 Pilot Jet, Jet Needle Clip set to Middle or Center Rung of the 5 rings, stock pipes with baffles, stock 7 (14) Plate Clutch (Not 8 or (15) plate, 15 Tooth countershaft sprocket and and 47 tooth rear sprocket!!! All throttle wheelies no dropping the clutch to get this baby up!!! Broke the speedo meter, broke the mirror, lost the rubber tank strap!!! All in one afternoons ride 6/1/2015!!!
"Do you know how fast you were going?"
Nope, speedo don't work. :-)
Hated that bike but I couldn't stay off of it. You don't own an H2 it owns you.
Kinda like a Demons curse can't wait 😂
Had a 71 h1, and a 74 h2.Still cant believe i sold them
thank you for finally riding an H2 the way it was meant to be ridden!!! I had a 72, the only love of true my life...
Many People called this Bike "Mamas crying bike" or "Widow maker" you needed 3 spurs on German Highway (Autobahn) this bike had maked wheelies in the 4th and 5th gear....so many mothers cryed for her son's who were killed on this bike....this bike had the baddest Motorcycle chassis ever....faster than 150km/h the hardest Biker get so much fear.....This bike was hell on wheels.....
I had a 500 h1 i did 60.000 km all over europe and i eas very happy. Only be careful on mountain roads but the .bike is fantastic.
2 strokes for ever...
The accwleration of a 3 piston 3 carb3 pipES 2 stroke street bike is hardcore ! On the FreewAY AT HE SPEED LIMIT SHIFT DOWN TO 3RD HIT THE GAS AND WHEELIE AWAY ! nO CLUTCH NEEDED!
Thank you so much. Had a H2 myself in 72 and it was as mean and nasty as everyone said, but I loved it. Your video brought back memories. It was amazing for it's time.
TRUE SILKY
Early '70's rode a Red 350, an Orange 500 H1, a purple 750 H2 and a Brown 900 Z1. Yup, crazy rides in crazy times yet lived to tell the tale.
Those 750 Kawasaki triples were evil beasts! A person with limited motorcycle riding experience should never pilot one. Even in stock trim with no expansion chambers, rev that thing too high and the front end will loft, FOR SURE!! They were not built real well but those bike were super fast!
VERY TRUE
The reason they were called the "Widowmaker!"
Sweet..i had them all if only had A single one TODAY...all I mean ALL .KAWI YAMA.SUZ. FROM SM TO THE INSAINE 900..WIDE TIMES FOLKS WILD
I'm just outside of Omaha my 75 H2 sold 5 years ago but still have a very nice 72 H1 and ride in Omaha often
i love the smell of these things when you park em....especially when running castor oil....this means im really old
Yeah. Me too, and that part sucks. But! Remembering these things, like it was yesterday helps the downside of being old as dirt.
Maybe we got this old 'cause we didn't own one! But I love the smell(and sound) of a two stroke in the morning!
Real smart on public roads.
Bike dam near 50yrs old and the front end comes up with ease, lol.
2 Stroke power band is an awesome thing◇¿.😎🎱☮🔊III[[[[
Flash forward to Year 2021.....Bet you've sold it a few years ago now. I bet you wish you hadn't!
Had 750 and 500 and 900 all built up drag bikes ran 750 on street with 250 emblems on the side what fun that was....un beatable... The good old days
Wow, take me back. I had 2 of these. Crude and loud. watching this made the memory of the smell of 2 stroke come back. In it's day it was the 44 magnum of bikes, I am now in my 50th year of riding and of the hundreds of bikes that have passed through my hands (I buy and sell a lot, at one time I had owned 11 Honda CBX's and you know how rare they are) THIS ONE MADE AN IMPRESSION. BOTH GOOD AND BAD.
Chip shastid i
Got 3 one complete and 2 basket cases I've been working will never sell. Well,my family will when I'm dead.
So much fun waving front wheel ..I started with 175 Kawasaki 1972,but total respect for these widowmakers
thataway brother redline that mfer!!! 🤘💨 but u forgot rev bomb it when u pull up somewhere..
Finally, a H2 video where the rider doesn't ride it like a pansy.
Back in 1977 I had a 73 H2 in Philly. I owned it for 3 years. Mine had K&N filters and the Denco expansion chamber's on it. I raced everything that moved and never got beat. The power band was awesome on that bike. It has so much torque that it would bend the teeth on the back sprocket. It was loud and it stunk from using Klotz racing oil. Mine was also a gold color something like yours. It was repainted with a gold Cadillac paint and was coated with polyglycoat. I sold it in 1980 and I heard that the guy still owns it in Florida all these years. I miss that bike!!! Thanks for sharing your video brings back a lot of memories.
Hahahaha polyglycoat!!!!!! Haven't heard that word in 4 decades
I had one and broke every single bone of my body, they are extremilly wild but I loved them.❤️❤️❤️ For triple wild
very fast bike -no give till 124---mph and still ---------------------going
I thrashed the hell outta em, it's all coming back, the front end
If only they sold them today. Had an H1 and it was great fun. Had a single leading shoe front brake. Worthless. Better to use your shoes!
Forgot why I sold it!!
yup
God i miss my 73 h2 750 wheelie king really fast powerful bike. Lo ed the sound everyone knew i was coming. Had banizie pipes on her man was she mean.
wheelie monster
My buddy had a '73 and it would wheelie in all 5 gears!
Original Super bike.
Beware the powerband...
1970s time warp machine -human atom smasher!
I like the color. There are no substitute for the feeling these old two strokes give . Nice Bike !
The 1972 Widowmaker
the widowmaker name comes from pussies who wet themselves the first time on one and of course, had to try and blame the bike when in truth their fate and always been in their right wrist. Nothing they could have previously owned could prepare them for what would happen when they arrogantly ignore what people tried to tell them before their first ride." the engine comes on strong when you spin it up. be careful with the throttle. It's not like your *insert bike here*.
I had an H1 for a year then got a brand spanking new 72 H2 for 2 years. Street raced drag raced both. made money street racing in 72 until word when around. could ride the h2 on the back wheel as far as you wanted to go. Those years changed my life. They were the first superbikes. The H bikes began a new class of motorcycles.
very true
Классный байк!
Had two 500’s and one 750. Still have the 750. Made a big mistake and armoralled the seat one time .
Hshahahah I’ve made that mistake also. Slippery slides for the win
I remember my 1974 H1 500. Wanted to wheelie at every twist of throttle, just like that... Omg so cool. 2strokes rock
Had one of these in high school in 1975. So much fun. You let that front end get nearly straight up and you can run it easily all the way up into 4th gear and over a hundred mph on just the back tire ooh what a nut I was when I was young. Had the 71 500 and the 73 z1 900 also. paid for all of them and a 69 Dodge dart gt by working all night at a full service gas station. anybody remember them lol.
‘69 H1MIII500 as my first street bike. But I was ready for it because I grew up on open class two-stroke dirt bikes as a teenager and so the transition to the street was not a problem…
But I sure can see how guys that weren’t used to that kind of beast horsepower ended up center-punching things that were in front of them in a big-ass hurry…
Once you come on the pipe, hang on for sure, hahaha!!!!!
But great ride - I really enjoyed watching you turn up the wick…
That thing is fukin awesome
Man that full throttle low rpm bog sound gives me chills. My dad had one of these when I was a kid and it was all I could do to hang on. Awesome video.
I bought my Blue 750 triple from a Catholic priest of all things and it was one of the most insane fun motorcycles I ever had.
Probably lots of prayers said on the seat of that thing. Lots of oh my gods and Jesus Christ's muttered. Hahhah
"one of the most.... " ?? what motorcycle did you have that was more insane fun with. I've described my relationship with my Blue H2 as having a burning hot love affair with the most exotic erotic beautiful and hot sexy wild woman you had ever dreamed of who would kick you off if you disrespected her but if you put in an effort to learn her ways she was going to trust you and give herself over to you to exploit all of the passion and bliss and unique pleasure she has to offer. You suspected she was kinky before you went out with her. She liked you because you didn't come on too strong right away yet showed her that you had the assertive streak she needed and that you had confident self-control and understood patience. Then the 2 of you set the world on fire. She came to need you as much as you craved her. She took you into a new world.
She could proably see the priest was going to be clueless,, or twisted, or both, and kicked him down the road.
Pileits
yeah, Hell on wheels! 😀
So then many of you know about having one oil-stained ridding boot.
The Suzuki triple riders had the opposite boot oil-stained because the 2stroke oil pump is on the opposite side of the engine on the GT.
I made a few friends by identifying this visual triple riders telltale sign.
There so few left. Too bad about the pAint .it needs to be the icon it was. Blue wth stripes
The speedometer is broken! 😂
I had a 1972 750 chopper hardtail and it was the fastest motorcycle I ever owned.
I bought a 500 in 1972 while in high school using paper route savings. Rode it everywhere and loved it. Seeing this video brought it all back to me. Love the sounds. Low end bog, high end screaming, and the triple 2 stroke idle. I can also the smell of the oil! I experienced the high speed curve wobble. Not something you ever forget. Thanks for bringing my memories to the surface. Mike
good driving be safe
Super video! Nice first person view. Did no one else notice the Piston slap in the engine? That's the weird spark knock sort of sound. When the cast Pistons wear down the bottom of the bore gets most of the wear also... The piston rocks in the cylinder and make that sound. Once it slaps hard enough the bottom of the skirt goes bye-bye. That's been the end too many nice bikes. Most of the time you can get away with a cheap top end rebuild... Because the Pistons will wear quicker than the bore. It won't affect compression.... horsepower... RPM.. that's just preventative maintenance stuff on a two-stroke.
I remember mine, you could keep the front wheel up right through 1,2,and 3 ! What a hoot !!
"But officer. My speedo doesn't work...honest"!
Damn. I miss my H2.
+llaaragon So Do I. I am 74 now and not in VG health. The H2 with Denco`s or a good port job and Expansion chambers with stingers and I think it was 38mm carbs and a clutch job was bloody unbeatable in my time. I NEVER got blown off !!. NOT by anything of the day by a long way. Z1 No. Honda 750 No. what a slugger. I need to go back 44 years and I want my H2 back !!!. Thirsty but great urban burner.
Yeah nothing would touch them. I remember when I had my '71 H1 this guy in our small town in New Zealand appeared with some huge american car boasting how fast it was. I set up a drag with him and annihilated him. I was gone before he had hardly got off the line. Didn't see him agin. Honda 750's? No competition. Especially for the H2. I enjoyed my H1 more tho. The buzz when it hit the power band. And the sound!. H2 was a better bike but not quite as much fun. Sure the build quality was poor, the handling average etc etc but much fun.
Crobular 👍good stuff
I miss my 1975 H2 for sure. Fast as hell and fun. It's been 35 years since I sold it.
My brother and I each had one of those. Great motorcycle!!!!
I miss mine so much bored 60 over expansion chambers I had a full faring body build my best friend worked in chrome shop it was totally chromed out. You bring back many wonderful memories be safe my brother those bikes can get you killed. 👍👍👍
Don't let her die brother.... 😭😭😭😭😭Brings back so much memories......... I had a 1987 kawasaki kb 100......i miss her till now.... They are precious dont let them go..... 😢
Best part with that bike you did not even have to pull up she wanted to go there all most every gear as the power band came in
Brings back some very fond memories!!!! Thanks greatly!!!!!
Yep, That's an H2 ride alright.
looks like the speedometer-wire is broken on this one, but the speed and sound is all there.... this bike is killing u for shure...
I had the baby... .400 loved that thing!!
So much for "live for the ride, dress for the slide"
My dad had one, I still remember sitting on it and seeing those gauges.... I also noticed a Quick trip, O Reilly auto parts and hills... You live in Georgia. Lol stay cool.
Finally somebody demonstrated why it was The Widowmaker!Keep up the good work,I enjoyed this history lesson!
The Widowmaker name was first given to the 1969 H1 500 Kawasaki triple.
Great to see a Bike from my school days ridden like we rode them, Correctly! Ride On.
They were a hand full to ride, but that's what we loved, so great to come aboard, brings back so many memories
I'm starting to understand why it is so hard to find these things. Can't imagine many survived.
Technostructural The H2 was known as the Widowmaker.
I lost 3 friends on 750s and another lost his legs. Several other riders survived the crashes but not the H2s themselves. I have seen most of the other triples lost in crashes very often due to high speed wobble or center cylinder overheating and seizing at high speed. Of all my old riding buddies I only know of one triple that survived and I believe Kris still has it today.
They're all the UK as Rick Brett shipped them by the hundreds over the years haha.
my dad had an h2 and it seized the center cylinder luckily he did get hurt
@@tmilli446ss All 2 strokes start to run lean at high RPM's, you need to add, "Power Jets" to the carbs, they will add fuel to the high end throttle openings. From three-quarters to full-throttle openings, the "Power Jets" primarily controls the fuel flow, so no more running lean and seizing up.
I have two H2s (72 & 73) on the street today (2019) and both have 34mm carbs and both of them are running "Power Jets", they do the job.
When I was 18, I always wanted to know what something would do. Top speed and other parameters. When I got on an H2, I figured that I wouldn't attempt to explore it's limits. I realized they would kill me. A super lesson to learn young. Unless you learned it and fast, this thing would maim you bad.
tks guy-------had a 1972----allmost killed my azz
I've ridden one, and have wanted one my whole life.
thanks for the ride ................better put that baby in the garage before the cops get here.
wonderfully crazy bike.
what kind of orange paint is that?
TC 4:17 You set up for the corner neatly.
Quit breaking it.
This is pure fun pure sound 😂👏❤️🤘
You do realise these things only make about 60 bhp at the rear wheel. The same as very unremarkable modern middleweight four stroke twins. Lots of hype and exaggeration. The handling could be scary if not set up properly. Period tires were far scarier than the bikes. Brakes were very average and the vibration was epic on a standard bike.
Yep....
Have you ever gone 80 on a go-kart?
Kinda the same feeling
Had the blue 750 when17....
Found a 400 triple in my 30s...think it was about 42hp, and still felt crazy fast.
My 900 Monster would eat them all alive, but feels tame. At the age of 70, I'm just glad to ride.
Had one that was blue Love that bike the only thing that used to scare me was the Speed wobble it would shake so bad that it almost though you off But I loved it
I think I'm in love 😍
had one back in the day, many good times.
This beauty is straight up badass
i started riding motorcycles when i was 10 in 1964. went through a number of small "kid's bikes" till i got to my senior year in high school in 1972. i thought i was a pretty good and capable rider at that point. i bought a new 1971 H2 Mach III 500 and that bike really tested my abilities and did scare me at times. it would accelerate out from under you if you didn't hold on and keeping the front wheel on the ground was a major task. the summer of my graduation in 72, a friend of my bought a new H2 750 and one friday night at the local bowling alley where we all hung out, i asked him if i could take it for a ride. i did a 100 mph "bonzie" run down a 4 lane stretch of road about 4 miles, turned around and took it back to the bowling alley. my legs were literally shaking when i got off and i could barely talk. i had NEVER been on a bike that was THAT fast and THAT completely uncontrollable under full throttle. i NEVER rode another H2 after that for the rest of my life even though i have had many different bikes up to a few years ago. i now have muscle cars rather than motorcycles and i have a 2020 Challenger Hellcat. THAT CAR is kind of close to being a completely uncontrollable vehicle like the old 750 H2 were. when i remember the days of riding Kawasaki 2 stroke triples, i am still amazed that those completely INSANE bikes were available to ANYONE who just walked in to the dealer and said, "i'm here to buy my first motorcycle and i like the look of that 750."
ace driving
Had 2 of these both 72s, 1 stock and 1 with a Paul Gast rebuild with 38mm carbs. 3:15 in the video gives me the feeling I'm on there. The only other bike that I have liked better is my current 2014 Busa, but even though the Busa would eat the h2 up there is nothing like that wicked wheelie that widowmaker pulls. Stay safe on that thing, but don't let it go!
TRUE WORDS GREG
ANY STOCK TRIPLE would do that..if it wouldn't it was fucked up..
The H2 750 would power wheelie at 150 km/hr if you put chambers on them.
My first bike was a 73 250 Kaw. Even it come up any time you wanted. It was fast in one-eighth of mile. Rode with buddies who had larger cc Hondas. At end of ride we turn up the rpms. The 250 could not hang. 90mph was tops for it. The next summer (74) I bought a used (2500 miles) Z1 900. I moved from the back of the pack to the front. That Z1 could turn 100 mph in 3rd gear with ease. Wonderful bike. I hate the day I sold it.
gets the adrenalyn pumpin' huh?
Very nice! Restoring a 74 H1. Can't take in enough vids of what fun it will be.
Speedo Unhooked keep miles down... That H2 runs Great! 💥💥💥
The power band was a reason why this was called the widow maker
this goes out to Raven gamer
+John Tuttobene I could not agree with you more when I was a kid well I am 53 when I was about 20 years old a friend of ours had the 750 triple was chamber pipes on there and he let me take it for a ride one day and you are correct when you say the powerband is insane I am an avid bike rider but I do have to say lunch I fucked around and got into the Power Band I do have to say that it did fucking scare me a little bit is it is about to be respected because after my friend got another 750 triple he sold it to our mutual friend of ours who thought that he could ride it like the previous owner who was a beast of a rider and he tried to emulate his writing style and lo and behold I guess you know what happened the fucking idiot and get up fucking smashing it and destroying a fucking hell of a nice bike like I said he tricked it out really nice I got rid of that got a seat put a nice fairing on it and put a fucking pair of black fucking chamber pipes on there and I'll tell you what that was one of the baddest bikes around it was too bad that the fucking moron that bought it fucking trashed it because he didn't know how to ride
+John Tuttobene he sold it to a mutual friend of ours for some strange reason he said he could emulate the driving Style of the previous owner and the previous owner new how to ride a bike to its fullest extent in our fucking idiot friend who bought it like I said thought he could drive it like the original owner and I guess you know he was sadly wrong and you know again that's a fucking moron and ended up smashing the fucking bike to pieces we all told him when he bought it to respect the fucking power of it but he didn't what a waste of a bike
+Raven Gamer Tell me about it !!.
well at least DID IT KILL THE FUCKER IF NOT IT SHOULD HAVE..LMAO
Wasn't much of a wheelie, but still better than most of the lame riding vids I see posted. Thumbs up.
I Han an H1 and I'm pretty sure I could lift the wheel at ninety if I wanted. The stock bars are impracticle because of the wheelies. It handled well on one wheel surprisingly
At 3:13 he red lines it in 1st, 2nd & 3rd - that must have been close to 100mph.
Now ask why they were widow makers.
My Suzuki GSXR1000 will do 100 mph at redline in first. It's geared rather tall in the first few gears to keep wheelies at bay. It will still power wheelie, But not effortlessly and accidentally. I loved H2's back in 1972. The first time I rode one I had a cross between an orgasm and anxiety attack. I had a Kawasaki Avenger 350 2-stake. A fast 350, but the 750 was in a different world.
Oh yeah sweet memories of my youth .
Speedo does not work.
Neither does the Go Pro😅
Fun! Had a Blue 72 H2 in the early 80's Could roll down the interstate at 55 drop it into 3rd and pick up the wheel. Grew up in Omaha, been a long time since I've been there. Military Ave and 72nd street still looks about the same in that stretch.
Hi there, how much are you asking for if not sold already?
Thanks
You'd lose your license in 5 minutes in Australia if you rode like that. LOL
Arnt motorcycles just the best thing ever??!! Especially screaming Kawasaki triple smoking strokers.... Fantastic
Treat this H2 with the respect it deserves, it's a true motorcycle superbike God from the early 70s.
A fabulous machine if ridden by someone who knows and cares about it and a death trap for idiot's .
ACE DRIVING-BE CAREFULL
Hooray! A non candy ass H2 rider. Now I remember what it was like to ride one. So viseral! The intake noise could dwarf the exhaust. So much torque as you came into that power-band. Unreal. Unreal, a really good feeling.
Woo Hoo !!! turned 18 when I was a senior in high school. Told mom...take me to town, I'm gonna buy me one of those 1972 h1 Kawasaki's I been reading about in biology class ! Damn near killed myself on the way home. Of all the bikes I've had and still have, that's the one I wish I had back!!! If you have one, even not runing restore it ! They are a piece of history that you can still enjoy.
Scary power
Yep, I loved Kawasaki's; they were the torque monsters of the road back in the early 70's.