enjoy them mate tbh, as long as its got 2 wheels thats fine by me ive already got the sack barrow for my partner to wheel me round on when i cant walk anymore 🙂Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
another milestone bike, it drove a whole wave of development i think. I featured it here if you havent seen it already ua-cam.com/video/jgSnHBdXcOo/v-deo.html and talk about the RD range and the 350LC (RZ350) in particular here ua-cam.com/video/gYetZtEpPcM/v-deo.html Enjoy the ride my friend
Thanks for your support mate 🙂 the feedback does help me and i do appreciate it, its all a bit trial and error at the minute, ill analyse the results in a month or so and consider things, some people (phone users mainly) just prefer the shorts but its all still a learning curve
Looking forward to seeing the KR250 video , my learner bike in 1977 was a KH250 , named the Kwaka slackarse due to the smoke coming out of the rear end , 83mph flat out feet on the indicators.
great bikes, that one may be a while, interesting that since i started the research i found the ill fated Gilera Bicilindrico which i think seems like the place kawasaki got the idea. 🙂 Cheers for watching mate. Ride Free 🙂
Welcome aboard mate, whuch GPZ? enjoy the ride and cheers for the support. and thoughts always to the ones that have passed on, we should always remember them
@@barebonesmc An 84 Gpz 750. Been in mothballs since 94. Will do full restoration. Has Vance & Hines exhaust with Kehein CR special, racing carbs. Got them from legendary Jack O' Malley of Orient Express Drag Racing fame. I live in Long Island, NY. Will be putting in the 810 kit. It spits 🔥 flames decelerating with open header! Have to wear ear plugs! It has good company with 2 Yamaha's. 2020 R6 & 2022 Moto GP edition R1! Had 98, #0007, Miguel Duhamel Smokin Joe's...had idiot hit me head on 3.5 years ago! Destroyed Joe, almost killed me and I'm the luckiest Road Rider I know! Aye Begoragh!🤩🇺🇸👍🇯🇵🤩🇺🇸👍🇯🇵🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁
Great story 🙂Cheers for adding your bit mate. would have liked to see more of Miguel. if he was as good as his dad he would have done well, just didnt seem to get a good run in world superbikes like he did in the AMA . Ride Free 🙂
great bikes , the day i passed my test i went to pick up a KH250 with full Dyson/plastic fantastic body kit, BUT, a mars bar 350LC came in the night before and i bought that instead but it was a tough choice 🙂 Cheers for watching mate. Ride Free 🙂
@@barebonesmc it was about an eighth of an inch wide all the way up to side of the cylinder and it's still made Power plenty of it one-of-a-kind machine could not kill it
Awesome as always mate. I never got to ride one of the 750 Honda 4s till many years after they came out when my brother bought one, a k2 version I believe. I know that he believed that to be the quickest of them but after hearing the sweet sounds those 4 cylinders all firing could make and the high regard people held for them for so long, when I took it for a ride I was actually very disappointed. It was a nice enough bike but, to me at least, I thought it was pretty gutless. Given a choice THEN of it or the crazy 750 Kawasaki, I'd have chosen the Kawasaki triple every time. If offered a choice between them now that I'm pretty stuffed, the Honda would sorta suit me better but, you'd never get the thrills you would on that Kawasaki so I'd have to really think on that. BTW: I've never considered ANY bike, dirt or road as "too powerful" and never really understood how people could even think like that. On fast dirt roads, having buckets of power means YOU can dictate exactly how you drift it through bends by snapping the arse loose then using throttle control to manage the drift. I do love me a bike with a savage power band, they're so much more fun, exciting and if ridden properly, more capable, plus challenging, in a fun way. I did give that 165hp BMW S 1,000 full throttle for very short bursts on a few occasions and did really wind her up set (as always) in "dynamic pro with wheelie and traction control all off when I'd been stuck behind a string of brain dead can drivers all bumper to bumper, mile after mile through some of the best riding country at between 60 and 80 kph (only 80 when there was a small chance someone could overtake. I knew there was a section of straight around a bend we were coming to and frustration meant I REALLY wanted to finally get around then so knocked it down to 3rd and if clear enough which it was (except for the truck coming the other way but I knew it could do it) I knocked her down to second and full throttle, with some easing to keep the front just skipping then bang with the quick shift up through the gears and full throttle all the way till I passed the last car. An after thought was to look down after I'd already eased off the throttle to see it coming down THROUGH 285 kph! Videos I've seen on YT seem to agree that's their top speed but I'd probably washed off 10 kph by the time I thought to look and, I felt like it was still accelerating when I backed off so, I don't know. Maybe I had so much adrenalin pumping around because of the thrill and risk that I actually looked within a fraction of a second, blowed if I know. I do know I was kicking the young blokes arses around the twistys on that thing and the power was just awesome, I could always do with more though eh lol. Thanks for more awesome bikes, especially that strange tandem twin which I'll admit I've never heard of till now. PS: That BMW had a rain mode and I did ride it in the rain on quite a few occasions but, only once in the rain mode then skipped right back up to the dynamic pro mode they warn you to only use on a race track with racing slicks on, PAH! Damned nanny controls, learn to ride instead FFS I reckon.
well put as always mate, i think the power down, comment comes from actually being able to get t thehe power in dirt t. not many other than the Highland have gone further even to this day. i thought it was an interesting comment, hence why i included it 🙂
@@barebonesmc I should amend, or rather add to my mention of the too much power comment I made. Over the years in my younger ones when I was always ten stone right up till I caught a rather nasty thing called Q Fever that stays with you for life at around 34 years ago, then it went all wonky, up when I couldn't eat hardly anything for weeks or more and weirdly down when I could., it had some very strange effects, including meaning I can't donate whole blood or tissue. Anyhow, this silly old fart's wandering off topic again, sorry. Point was I owned over a period of years and for years 2 TS 185 Suzukis. I chose them because I couldn't afford at that period of my life to own multiple bikes of different sizes and types so I loved racing around on some of the bush tracks racing against anyone who felt like some fun, while I loved power, I wanted light and nimble too and also needed to get to and from work. Back then I was happy to sacrifice some power and traveling comfort for the extra nimbleness of a lighter bike in the various bush type environments. Now I can't even stand on the pegs, which is essential to getting up things like that steep rocky hill you showed those guys riding up and not managing to keep going. I was surprised to see it seemed the guy in front of that Kawasaki seemed to be sitting, he was also the first one to grind to a halt, for exactly that reason. You've got to be up on the pegs moving your weight around to climb a hill like that, especially covered in loose rock, something I just can't do since 3 out of the 4 cartialeges in my left knee are completely gone and the only one left is torn, just not full thickness like the other 3. On the road I'd be happy if I could wheel stand at over 100 mph with just a quarter throttle, on the smoothish dirt I like HEAPS of power to control drifts etc too but, not in really tight scrubby bush where your weaving around trees, boulders etc, there a trials bike would be awesome but, if you're only able to have 1 bike, something like a TS 185 or a DT 175 are pretty good alternatives. The thing that REALLY sucks is that I've ridden and been amazed at where I could go and what I could do on a decent trials bike and was eventually in a position to and about to buy one when I had the accident that tore my knee to pieces so that's right out now, hell, a lot of them now don't even have a seat at all! BTW, I've spent many hours on DT 175 Yamahas too and they were a great little, less peaky but with a bit more low end torque than the Suzuki but great little and pretty durable bikes too, though I've never actually owned one.
@@lorditsprobingtime6668 my knee wont support me either standing up now mate, well, i can stand a bit, but cant land lol, but with some new learning, there are ways, i did an off road trip in Wales a few years ago now, mostly young uns, with a broken me and an old Geyser who was the dad of one of the younger ones. he never stood once all day, rode rings around the rest of us, and just laughed when asked why he didnt stand up to make it easier, both his knees had gone, ill never say its easier cuz its not, but ive been up and down some damn steep climbs since that i probably would have stopped at in my younger days. nothing is impossible, but damn sometimes its hard, i was humbled by the guy i met at a trackday who only had one leg and was still faster than many of them there. as to the seats, dont get me started lol, im sure its just so they can sell you and extra "Comfort" seat half the time
@@barebonesmc Oh yeah, don't get me wrong, experience and being forced to adapt can make a huge difference. The way my knee is, I'm very wary even stopping I have to keep reminding myself to make sure to stop so I'm using my right leg, which doesn't come so naturally because for so many years I'd stop and use the left so I could keep the rear brake on, especially if I was stopping on a steep incline. You really don't want to pull up like that and try and rely on the front brake to hold you. I too have seen a 1 legged guy road racing and going incredibly well. I can't remember anyone on dirt going so great but, I'm, sure there'd be some. As for the trials bikes with no seat, they usually deliberately have the frame dipping lower where the seat would be too, that would be great for serious trials riding but, even if my knees were great I'd still like the option of being able to sit during sections where you can. I assume the seat less ones are for the serious competition types and I don't want to compete, I just want to climb trees and cliffs and crazy stuff you can scramble over on a pretty decent trials bike. I do fully intend to be going moderately hard on the DRZ while seated but, the rough, loose rock covered steep tracks like that one in your video, standing is by far the best way to tackle those sorts of hills when the back is constantly breaking traction and even the front is unpredictable skipping sideways as the loose rocks often roll it across like it was on ball bearings.
@@lorditsprobingtime6668 all true words as usual, the bit that wrecks my knee the most is the rotation, if im not really careful with foot placement before i get on just swinging my leg over leaves me in a heap sometimes lol,hence the endless search for lighter these days lol, and yep shale and loose rocks can be a bitch at times, spent more time tuning and modding the suspension on the vstrom than the engine lol, why is it always the bloody left knee!!!
@@barebonesmc Nah, you got it right. I think a lot of the more spectacular bikes got nicknamed "widowmakers" , even if just amongst a particular group, simply because they were often involved in accidents a lot because of some characteristic and the 750 Kwaka probably deserved it more than any other, the 500 WAS called it before the 750 but I'd be surprised if the 500 was quite as truly terrifying as that awesome but rubber 750.
@@lorditsprobingtime6668 being honest, the TR25 trophy trials i had once probably deserved the widowmaker name as much as any too, but ive only ever seen 3, now even the British museum havent got one, crap bike but wish i had it to sell now lol handling was atrocious even tho it was a slug
@@barebonesmc I didn't even know what that was so googled it and a very pretty looking silver tanked one with the British flag on the air box (presumably) cover came up for sale in England (as far as I can tell) for "£4,695.00" if you'd like to replace yours lol. isn't it amazing how bikes have developed and become so much more specialized over the years. I can remember going to watch races at the same short circuit track that I later wound up racing on, one which is thankfully still in use today. Wat back it was to watch a friends older brother race on a bloomin Honda 250 twin road bike and that was about as good as any others way back then lol. I've only ever ridden one Triumph, an already pretty old 650 Bonny about 40 years back. I really had to concentrate on remembering the gears and rear brake were arse about but, despite my passion for screaming engines I really liked it, I even described it as THE bike I'd most like to own if I was only ever allowed to have 1 bike, it was just so pleasant to ride and listen to the nice burble from that engine. It wasn't quick by any means but, it was a very relaxed and enjoyable ride, it really surprised me. That's a shame they messed up the handling on your TR25 Trophy. Actually the 650 Bonny may have been terrible if you pushed it, I usually would but that thing just felt so happy and sort of made me want to just putter around, I don't remember any bad habits but, maybe I would have found a few if I had ridden it hard.
@@lorditsprobingtime6668 to be fair, i knew a lot less about setting bikes up right then than i do now lol, but it just used to wash out with no warning, no slide, just let go completely, did it to me once to often so it had to go, and yes prices are stupid now, if you can find them, if i added up the present sale price of a few of the bikes ive had in those early days i would be swimming in cash lol
and kdx 450, 400 triple, zxr250 of old and so many more, this is just a window mate i could never have included them all 🙂Cheers for adding your bit. Ride Free 🙂
@@barebonesmc just been to Switzerland bought a Kawasaki gpz1000rx. I bought it from the original owner it’s only just run in after 38 years. It’s beautiful. Rode it back across Swiss French and Austrian Alps when crossing the Austrian border I stop in the valley where the jump was filmed in the great escape. Thought you’d appreciate that. Keep up the good work. Cheers
nice trip, and great bikes, did you see the feature here ua-cam.com/video/c4n0iL9mUW8/v-deo.html well done for saving another 🙂 Cheers for watching mate. Ride Free 🙂
So, i noticed that the kr250 had individual pipes, i would think it would benefit from some scavenging. I guess it would depend on the firing order though huh? Unless 2 stroke is different in this respect.
the expansion chambers in a 2 stroke exhaust are Helmholtz resonators, and it really is almost impossible to build a 2 into one system that works as well as single pipes, it is that simple, so yes, very different from the way a 4 stroke exhaust is designed 🙂Cheers for watching and for the comment mate. Ride Free 🙂
@barebonesmc interesting, a cursory look into helmholtz resonators yielded the following information... reflected pressure pulses to "pack" the cylinder... I need to study helmholtz resonators for a bit.
@@chas30012001 the same tech is used on some 4 stroke dirt bikes, a smaller "power bomb" is fitted on the downpipes, has a similar effect, but most arent big enough to have a great effect, the system of expansion chambers on 2 strokes was much more effective as they did use the whole pipe, originally developed by Walter Kaaden at MZ, one of the often forgotten design genius's of the motorcycle world
Think tires back in the day and tires are still the limiting factor today. In the end it is all relative, these bikes were cutting/bleeding edge in their day.
i get moaned at if i use brake horsepower and now im moaned at for using horsepower, i cant win lol, 🙂Cheers for watching and for the comment mate. Ride Free 🙂
When i was about 18 there was a h2750 for sale on behalf it had spanies and was ported when the guy who owned it heard i was gonna buy it he wouldn’t let them sell it to me because he said id kill myself and he was probably right sure would have loved to own it tho always wanted one who noes i might just pay the 30 or 40 g they wont for one one day.the 750 was 1500nz i think back then in 87ish.👍🇳🇿ps the kr250 goes back two Walter kamden and mz doesn’t it?
the KR is a complicated one, where is the Walter Kaadan link? since i started research i found the ill fated Gilera Bicilindrico, which to me seems like the place they got the idea from
@@barebonesmc doesn’t the link go back to he is the father of all modern two strokes and the tandem twin was a idea of his later used buy Suzuki in twin tandem rg500 also he invented the expansion chamber.unfortunately this is only from memory as all my research material was lost in a flood in February ☠️🇳🇿
@@SSV-i-c-e i thought you were talking more specifically, he may have been central to 2 stroke development, but was hardly alone, and yes Suzuki nicked stuff, but DKW and then MZ were hardly the only 2 stroke manufacturers making big waves. The earliest tandem twin design i can find is actually the Gilera, but i know lots was lost both during and after the war, from both DKW and MZ, The Suzuki was much later though, and the Yamaha not a V4 lol, if you get any info on the tandem twin let me know as it is a work in progress
lol, the term killer can mean many things, it is a slang term for great, but even discounting that, its a figure of speech, not a statement of fact, hope you enjoyed it anyway
Glad the kdx made the list
great bikes 🙂 Cheers for watching mate. Ride Free 🙂
I'll take a 2 stroke over a 4 stroke any day.
Gd video
enjoy them mate tbh, as long as its got 2 wheels thats fine by me ive already got the sack barrow for my partner to wheel me round on when i cant walk anymore 🙂Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
Nice to see the RD 350 setting the pace with the H1.
another milestone bike, it drove a whole wave of development i think. I featured it here if you havent seen it already ua-cam.com/video/jgSnHBdXcOo/v-deo.html and talk about the RD range and the 350LC (RZ350) in particular here ua-cam.com/video/gYetZtEpPcM/v-deo.html Enjoy the ride my friend
That's the most enjoyable content I've watched today. Thanks.
glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
Loved my '87 KX500, that awesome suspension saved me as many times as my right wrist combined with that awesome motor to try & kill me. True Love 😁
Great story 🙂Cheers for adding your bit mate. Ride Free 🙂
Very good barebonesmc. I much prefer this compilation to your shorts.
Thanks for your support mate 🙂 the feedback does help me and i do appreciate it, its all a bit trial and error at the minute, ill analyse the results in a month or so and consider things, some people (phone users mainly) just prefer the shorts but its all still a learning curve
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Looking forward to seeing the KR250 video , my learner bike in 1977 was a KH250 , named the Kwaka slackarse due to the smoke coming out of the rear end , 83mph flat out feet on the indicators.
great bikes, that one may be a while, interesting that since i started the research i found the ill fated Gilera Bicilindrico which i think seems like the place kawasaki got the idea. 🙂 Cheers for watching mate. Ride Free 🙂
I had an A1 samurai, used it to ride to the track , had my first race and rode it home..wish I had never sold it..
great bikes, being honest i feel the same about my 350LC 🙂 Cheers for watching mate. Ride Free 🙂
I loved my KR-1. Nuts!
great bikes 🙂 Cheers for watching mate. Ride Free 🙂
My Samurai was my favourite Kawasaki that I have owned followed by my Z1A. The 1972 H2 that I owned from new was over rated 👍
great bikes and there does seem to be a particular lunacy that comes with some Kawasaki's🙂 Cheers for watching mate. Ride Free 🙂
LOL !! My first bike was a ‘Suzuki Samurai’, a 100 CC single stroke commuter motorcycle I bought here in India in 1996 !
i guess good names go beyond the brand sometimes 🙂Cheers for watching and for the comment mate. Ride Free 🙂
@@barebonesmc And one of my current bikes is a Kawasaki Vulcan !
enjoy it mate 🙂Cheers for watching. Ride Free 🙂
KDX is a enjoyable ride,, very impressive low rpm torque and a screaming top end,, perfectly balanced suspension
Sometimes they do just get it right lol 🙂Cheers for watching and for the comment mate. Ride Free 🙂
🤩🇺🇸👍🇯🇵Gotta Gpz. My MX partner used to break his KX 500! He was a monster of a man & his ashes were scattered at Unadilla! Big Don miss ya!🤩🇺🇸👍
Welcome aboard mate, whuch GPZ? enjoy the ride and cheers for the support. and thoughts always to the ones that have passed on, we should always remember them
@@barebonesmc An 84 Gpz 750. Been in mothballs since 94. Will do full restoration. Has Vance & Hines exhaust with Kehein CR special, racing carbs. Got them from legendary Jack O' Malley of Orient Express Drag Racing fame. I live in Long Island, NY. Will be putting in the 810 kit. It spits 🔥 flames decelerating with open header! Have to wear ear plugs! It has good company with 2 Yamaha's. 2020 R6 & 2022 Moto GP edition R1! Had 98, #0007, Miguel Duhamel Smokin Joe's...had idiot hit me head on 3.5 years ago! Destroyed Joe, almost killed me and I'm the luckiest Road Rider I know! Aye Begoragh!🤩🇺🇸👍🇯🇵🤩🇺🇸👍🇯🇵🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁
Great story 🙂Cheers for adding your bit mate. would have liked to see more of Miguel. if he was as good as his dad he would have done well, just didnt seem to get a good run in world superbikes like he did in the AMA . Ride Free 🙂
KH250 first bike, remembered with pleasure...
great bikes , the day i passed my test i went to pick up a KH250 with full Dyson/plastic fantastic body kit, BUT, a mars bar 350LC came in the night before and i bought that instead but it was a tough choice 🙂 Cheers for watching mate. Ride Free 🙂
I had a 1986 DMC KX125 and it was unstoppable, even with a pretty good tear in the cylinder, so powerful.
tear in the cylinder? not sure what you mean
@@barebonesmc a rip in the plating
@@barebonesmc it was about an eighth of an inch wide all the way up to side of the cylinder and it's still made Power plenty of it one-of-a-kind machine could not kill it
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@@pc2150 that is some going
Awesome as always mate. I never got to ride one of the 750 Honda 4s till many years after they came out when my brother bought one, a k2 version I believe. I know that he believed that to be the quickest of them but after hearing the sweet sounds those 4 cylinders all firing could make and the high regard people held for them for so long, when I took it for a ride I was actually very disappointed. It was a nice enough bike but, to me at least, I thought it was pretty gutless. Given a choice THEN of it or the crazy 750 Kawasaki, I'd have chosen the Kawasaki triple every time. If offered a choice between them now that I'm pretty stuffed, the Honda would sorta suit me better but, you'd never get the thrills you would on that Kawasaki so I'd have to really think on that.
BTW: I've never considered ANY bike, dirt or road as "too powerful" and never really understood how people could even think like that. On fast dirt roads, having buckets of power means YOU can dictate exactly how you drift it through bends by snapping the arse loose then using throttle control to manage the drift. I do love me a bike with a savage power band, they're so much more fun, exciting and if ridden properly, more capable, plus challenging, in a fun way.
I did give that 165hp BMW S 1,000 full throttle for very short bursts on a few occasions and did really wind her up set (as always) in "dynamic pro with wheelie and traction control all off when I'd been stuck behind a string of brain dead can drivers all bumper to bumper, mile after mile through some of the best riding country at between 60 and 80 kph (only 80 when there was a small chance someone could overtake. I knew there was a section of straight around a bend we were coming to and frustration meant I REALLY wanted to finally get around then so knocked it down to 3rd and if clear enough which it was (except for the truck coming the other way but I knew it could do it) I knocked her down to second and full throttle, with some easing to keep the front just skipping then bang with the quick shift up through the gears and full throttle all the way till I passed the last car. An after thought was to look down after I'd already eased off the throttle to see it coming down THROUGH 285 kph! Videos I've seen on YT seem to agree that's their top speed but I'd probably washed off 10 kph by the time I thought to look and, I felt like it was still accelerating when I backed off so, I don't know. Maybe I had so much adrenalin pumping around because of the thrill and risk that I actually looked within a fraction of a second, blowed if I know. I do know I was kicking the young blokes arses around the twistys on that thing and the power was just awesome, I could always do with more though eh lol.
Thanks for more awesome bikes, especially that strange tandem twin which I'll admit I've never heard of till now.
PS: That BMW had a rain mode and I did ride it in the rain on quite a few occasions but, only once in the rain mode then skipped right back up to the dynamic pro mode they warn you to only use on a race track with racing slicks on, PAH! Damned nanny controls, learn to ride instead FFS I reckon.
well put as always mate, i think the power down, comment comes from actually being able to get t thehe power in dirt t. not many other than the Highland have gone further even to this day. i thought it was an interesting comment, hence why i included it 🙂
@@barebonesmc I should amend, or rather add to my mention of the too much power comment I made. Over the years in my younger ones when I was always ten stone right up till I caught a rather nasty thing called Q Fever that stays with you for life at around 34 years ago, then it went all wonky, up when I couldn't eat hardly anything for weeks or more and weirdly down when I could., it had some very strange effects, including meaning I can't donate whole blood or tissue. Anyhow, this silly old fart's wandering off topic again, sorry. Point was I owned over a period of years and for years 2 TS 185 Suzukis. I chose them because I couldn't afford at that period of my life to own multiple bikes of different sizes and types so I loved racing around on some of the bush tracks racing against anyone who felt like some fun, while I loved power, I wanted light and nimble too and also needed to get to and from work. Back then I was happy to sacrifice some power and traveling comfort for the extra nimbleness of a lighter bike in the various bush type environments. Now I can't even stand on the pegs, which is essential to getting up things like that steep rocky hill you showed those guys riding up and not managing to keep going. I was surprised to see it seemed the guy in front of that Kawasaki seemed to be sitting, he was also the first one to grind to a halt, for exactly that reason. You've got to be up on the pegs moving your weight around to climb a hill like that, especially covered in loose rock, something I just can't do since 3 out of the 4 cartialeges in my left knee are completely gone and the only one left is torn, just not full thickness like the other 3. On the road I'd be happy if I could wheel stand at over 100 mph with just a quarter throttle, on the smoothish dirt I like HEAPS of power to control drifts etc too but, not in really tight scrubby bush where your weaving around trees, boulders etc, there a trials bike would be awesome but, if you're only able to have 1 bike, something like a TS 185 or a DT 175 are pretty good alternatives.
The thing that REALLY sucks is that I've ridden and been amazed at where I could go and what I could do on a decent trials bike and was eventually in a position to and about to buy one when I had the accident that tore my knee to pieces so that's right out now, hell, a lot of them now don't even have a seat at all!
BTW, I've spent many hours on DT 175 Yamahas too and they were a great little, less peaky but with a bit more low end torque than the Suzuki but great little and pretty durable bikes too, though I've never actually owned one.
@@lorditsprobingtime6668 my knee wont support me either standing up now mate, well, i can stand a bit, but cant land lol, but with some new learning, there are ways, i did an off road trip in Wales a few years ago now, mostly young uns, with a broken me and an old Geyser who was the dad of one of the younger ones. he never stood once all day, rode rings around the rest of us, and just laughed when asked why he didnt stand up to make it easier, both his knees had gone, ill never say its easier cuz its not, but ive been up and down some damn steep climbs since that i probably would have stopped at in my younger days. nothing is impossible, but damn sometimes its hard, i was humbled by the guy i met at a trackday who only had one leg and was still faster than many of them there. as to the seats, dont get me started lol, im sure its just so they can sell you and extra "Comfort" seat half the time
@@barebonesmc Oh yeah, don't get me wrong, experience and being forced to adapt can make a huge difference. The way my knee is, I'm very wary even stopping I have to keep reminding myself to make sure to stop so I'm using my right leg, which doesn't come so naturally because for so many years I'd stop and use the left so I could keep the rear brake on, especially if I was stopping on a steep incline. You really don't want to pull up like that and try and rely on the front brake to hold you.
I too have seen a 1 legged guy road racing and going incredibly well. I can't remember anyone on dirt going so great but, I'm, sure there'd be some. As for the trials bikes with no seat, they usually deliberately have the frame dipping lower where the seat would be too, that would be great for serious trials riding but, even if my knees were great I'd still like the option of being able to sit during sections where you can. I assume the seat less ones are for the serious competition types and I don't want to compete, I just want to climb trees and cliffs and crazy stuff you can scramble over on a pretty decent trials bike.
I do fully intend to be going moderately hard on the DRZ while seated but, the rough, loose rock covered steep tracks like that one in your video, standing is by far the best way to tackle those sorts of hills when the back is constantly breaking traction and even the front is unpredictable skipping sideways as the loose rocks often roll it across like it was on ball bearings.
@@lorditsprobingtime6668 all true words as usual, the bit that wrecks my knee the most is the rotation, if im not really careful with foot placement before i get on just swinging my leg over leaves me in a heap sometimes lol,hence the endless search for lighter these days lol, and yep shale and loose rocks can be a bitch at times, spent more time tuning and modding the suspension on the vstrom than the engine lol, why is it always the bloody left knee!!!
My personal favorite is the z1000a madmax bike
great bikes, and they will find their place at some point 🙂 Cheers for watching mate. Ride Free 🙂
12:00 Tank stickers on that 500 are facing the wrong way (both sides)😲
lol, eagl eyes :-) id not even noticed lol
The term 'Widowmaker' was applied to the H1 500 before the H2 750 even existed.
yep, the Vincent black shadow before that too, i cant always get it right 🙂
@@barebonesmc Nah, you got it right. I think a lot of the more spectacular bikes got nicknamed "widowmakers" , even if just amongst a particular group, simply because they were often involved in accidents a lot because of some characteristic and the 750 Kwaka probably deserved it more than any other, the 500 WAS called it before the 750 but I'd be surprised if the 500 was quite as truly terrifying as that awesome but rubber 750.
@@lorditsprobingtime6668 being honest, the TR25 trophy trials i had once probably deserved the widowmaker name as much as any too, but ive only ever seen 3, now even the British museum havent got one, crap bike but wish i had it to sell now lol handling was atrocious even tho it was a slug
@@barebonesmc I didn't even know what that was so googled it and a very pretty looking silver tanked one with the British flag on the air box
(presumably) cover came up for sale in England (as far as I can tell) for "£4,695.00" if you'd like to replace yours lol.
isn't it amazing how bikes have developed and become so much more specialized over the years. I can remember going to watch races at the same short circuit track that I later wound up racing on, one which is thankfully still in use today. Wat back it was to watch a friends older brother race on a bloomin Honda 250 twin road bike and that was about as good as any others way back then lol.
I've only ever ridden one Triumph, an already pretty old 650 Bonny about 40 years back. I really had to concentrate on remembering the gears and rear brake were arse about but, despite my passion for screaming engines I really liked it, I even described it as THE bike I'd most like to own if I was only ever allowed to have 1 bike, it was just so pleasant to ride and listen to the nice burble from that engine. It wasn't quick by any means but, it was a very relaxed and enjoyable ride, it really surprised me.
That's a shame they messed up the handling on your TR25 Trophy. Actually the 650 Bonny may have been terrible if you pushed it, I usually would but that thing just felt so happy and sort of made me want to just putter around, I don't remember any bad habits but, maybe I would have found a few if I had ridden it hard.
@@lorditsprobingtime6668 to be fair, i knew a lot less about setting bikes up right then than i do now lol, but it just used to wash out with no warning, no slide, just let go completely, did it to me once to often so it had to go, and yes prices are stupid now, if you can find them, if i added up the present sale price of a few of the bikes ive had in those early days i would be swimming in cash lol
The 1976 kx400a2 Check that out. I own the full set the 76 125/250/400. They are barmy.
and kdx 450, 400 triple, zxr250 of old and so many more, this is just a window mate i could never have included them all 🙂Cheers for adding your bit. Ride Free 🙂
@@barebonesmc just been to Switzerland bought a Kawasaki gpz1000rx. I bought it from the original owner it’s only just run in after 38 years. It’s beautiful. Rode it back across Swiss French and Austrian Alps when crossing the Austrian border I stop in the valley where the jump was filmed in the great escape. Thought you’d appreciate that. Keep up the good work. Cheers
nice trip, and great bikes, did you see the feature here ua-cam.com/video/c4n0iL9mUW8/v-deo.html well done for saving another 🙂 Cheers for watching mate. Ride Free 🙂
So, i noticed that the kr250 had individual pipes, i would think it would benefit from some scavenging. I guess it would depend on the firing order though huh? Unless 2 stroke is different in this respect.
the expansion chambers in a 2 stroke exhaust are Helmholtz resonators, and it really is almost impossible to build a 2 into one system that works as well as single pipes, it is that simple, so yes, very different from the way a 4 stroke exhaust is designed 🙂Cheers for watching and for the comment mate. Ride Free 🙂
@barebonesmc interesting, a cursory look into helmholtz resonators yielded the following information... reflected pressure pulses to "pack" the cylinder... I need to study helmholtz resonators for a bit.
@@chas30012001 the same tech is used on some 4 stroke dirt bikes, a smaller "power bomb" is fitted on the downpipes, has a similar effect, but most arent big enough to have a great effect, the system of expansion chambers on 2 strokes was much more effective as they did use the whole pipe, originally developed by Walter Kaaden at MZ, one of the often forgotten design genius's of the motorcycle world
Think tires back in the day and tires are still the limiting factor today. In the end it is all relative, these bikes were cutting/bleeding edge in their day.
indeed, they do better with modern tyres 🙂
1990 kx 125 had a Elliptical piston not sure why .
elliptical as in oval? or elliptic/domed piston? if they were oval ive no ideawhy theyd do that, n never knew they did for sure
Amazing . Story. Love ❤ them things. Grew up in them . Atlas cycle . Welland on canada. Dad made the pdi
ok fill us in 🙂 the names atlas and welland arent ones i recognise
@@barebonesmc the shop name was Atlas Cyle . In Canada. Welland Ontario, near niagara falls . Kawasaki was the dealership brand
@@PeterSmith-or3pq ahhhh 🙂 i misunderstood 🙂
75 hp from 750cc is not as good as the 500cc with 60hp. Of course you actually mean brake horsepower.
i get moaned at if i use brake horsepower and now im moaned at for using horsepower, i cant win lol, 🙂Cheers for watching and for the comment mate. Ride Free 🙂
Never heard of it. K1 or kh yes. Not this thing
which one?
When i was about 18 there was a h2750 for sale on behalf it had spanies and was ported when the guy who owned it heard i was gonna buy it he wouldn’t let them sell it to me because he said id kill myself and he was probably right sure would have loved to own it tho always wanted one who noes i might just pay the 30 or 40 g they wont for one one day.the 750 was 1500nz i think back then in 87ish.👍🇳🇿ps the kr250 goes back two Walter kamden and mz doesn’t it?
the KR is a complicated one, where is the Walter Kaadan link? since i started research i found the ill fated Gilera Bicilindrico, which to me seems like the place they got the idea from
@@barebonesmc doesn’t the link go back to he is the father of all modern two strokes and the tandem twin was a idea of his later used buy Suzuki in twin tandem rg500 also he invented the expansion chamber.unfortunately this is only from memory as all my research material was lost in a flood in February ☠️🇳🇿
@@SSV-i-c-e i thought you were talking more specifically, he may have been central to 2 stroke development, but was hardly alone, and yes Suzuki nicked stuff, but DKW and then MZ were hardly the only 2 stroke manufacturers making big waves. The earliest tandem twin design i can find is actually the Gilera, but i know lots was lost both during and after the war, from both DKW and MZ, The Suzuki was much later though, and the Yamaha not a V4 lol, if you get any info on the tandem twin let me know as it is a work in progress
No such thing as killer kawasaki's just incompetent clowns that couldn't ride them!
lol, the term killer can mean many things, it is a slang term for great, but even discounting that, its a figure of speech, not a statement of fact, hope you enjoyed it anyway