was 19 years old 1975, was in Law University, 2d year, 69 H1 stolen sadly and just waiting money from the insurance and from work during holidays to buy a brand new H2B.
In the beginning of may, my father said me, he have the moneyand he can lend it to me.
Called immediadly my K deaker and he said no more H2 new in France, lasts were sold in April and the H2C would never come.
Called all the french Kawasaki dealers and no one had one new (and yes the lasts were sold in april)
was very disapointed cause if I have asked to my father to lend me the money 3 weeks before I would have got one brand new H2B and really wanted one.
Didn't know what to buy and just bought a used low mileage Kawasaki F9 big horn 1972 to have a bike
Later (july) I said to my Kawasaki dealer was thinking to buy a brand new Ducati 750 sport but was not sure
He replied "perfect, I was just became also Ducati dealer and have got a used Ducati 750 GT, I sold you it, you're going in holidays with and if you liked, after holidays , I will buy back the GT the same price I sold you and you will buy me a brand new Ducati 750 sport".
so I was going to the dealer to pick up the Duke.
When I arrived saw a 73 H2A, double discs, clips on, and only 9.000 kilometers.
Asked if it was for sale
he said yes and I bought it
Came back with a friend on my F9 to pick up the H2, said bye bye to the big horn,
shame on me didn't fold up the front peg to use the kick starter on the H2 (as you didn't need it on the H1
)
went to a road: put full gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas
and yes it is
and when I used the brakes, strangely the brakes worked
strangely have actually a H2B and a H2A among other K triples
don't know why
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. When they got back Jay fixed it and Fred kept it for a couple of years(he never did pay for it)and then the chain of ownership started that went to, Bob M, then Gene B, then Dave B(no relation), then Dan V, then Charles L, then back to Dan V, and then to Wayne S, and finally me last August. Fred took me down a gravel road 100mph when I was 13 back in 1970 and almost made me start crying, so me and this bike go way back. Jay started selling a lot more bikes in 1971 and in 1972 he had the whole model line in the showroom. I remember helping him put the bikes together out of the crates, I wanted one so bad, any one it didn't matter but alas I had no cash so I could only dream. I got to ride every new Kawasaki that came out from 1972 to 1975 when I graduated from high school. I remember the day Jay got the new 1973 Z1, we couldn't believe it, what a bike! When Jay started it up on the showroom floor it sounded like a formula one car. His brother Fred liked it too so he took it off the floor one afternoon when I was there and we pushed it out the front door and it was his, he never paid for it either. He let me get on the back and we rolled down main and onto the highway and he took off. He ran it hard all the way to the top and we went all the way to the next little town(20 miles)at about 120mph, it was a freakin blast. At that time I owned my first motorcycle, a G3SS 90. Being as how I hung out at the Kawasaki shop, the 90 wasn't really a 90 anymore and it ran real good. Fred had taken the Z1 in April and it was now June and he wanted to sell it. My best friend Zimmy wanted it real bad and somehow talked his Mom into helping him pay for it. He was 15 years old and had a pretty much new 1973 Z1, a great starter bike in anyone's book 
I kid you not! When recovered it just had the bare motor, no pipes or jugs Etc as all those parts were taken off to get at the tranny and got separated or sold from the recovered bike. It then ended up at Larry Stones in Detroit where he replaced all the parts and sat on it for the next 30 years until I bought it, the only way that you could ever relate to the bike is that it did have a Canadian flag decal on the inner rear guard. Do you have any other details? Frame number off an old insurance or registration 
