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my brother is sure it was a 1975 model, stolen from Wilsons Harley Davidson on Alpine in Grand Rapids. I thought it was a 73.

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I had a really nice H2B I bought in 77, put Denco 34's and Denco Street pipes, had the 792 kit and the Denco 95 hp port on it and used to street race anything I could and always won. There was a guy in a nearby town that had a really nasty 72 H2 with a lot of Mod's done, I think he would have beat me.

Back then before instant communications, we agreed to meet down at the river road on Friday Night at 7PM.........the night before, he let the neighbor ride his bike, the guy wound it up and dumped the clutch.......wheeled and lost it.......into a parked car........the bike exploded in a fireball and killed the guy on it...........that was end of that and was the only other H2 around.

As far as cool old stuff from 60 and 70's, my buddy Doug Neef's shop 4 blocks up the alley has over 50 old minibikes, Hodaka's, Bonanza, Fuji, SST gemini's, Tera, Rupp, Simplex with a West Bend 820, some MAC 91 motors, FOX, and a really nice 1965 Yamaha YDS3 250 street bike, Kawasaki 100 (KD5 ?), a coleman 50cc with the 5.8hp sachs motor (its fast !)........ we often go up on the service road and drag race minibikes.........the 75 Kawasaki 100 beat my 79 Yamaha DT100G by about half a bike last fall..........(I thought my reed motor would win) sometimes we will we go ride, me on the H2B and my buddys on minibikes.........its fun when you can ride 4 or 5 different ones in afternoon.

THX Phil

I started my cycling on Oct. 16th 1965 on a Honda S65 and worked my way up the Honda line to a 71 CB450 in 1971. Died in the wool Honda and four stroke only fanatic. I was aware of the Kawasaki H1 triple but that was brand x and not a consideration. I knew the H1 was the fastest accelerating cycle on the road and respected it for that. In the fall of 1972 a friend of mine suggested that we ride to Bristol Dragway for a all bike drag race. this was a 150 miles south on I-81. We left town about 4 AM. He was on a 72 CB750 Honda and I was on my CB450. By 8 AM we were at Bristol Dragway and he entered his CB750 Honda in the A/S class. That was the highest level class for stock cycles at the time. His Honda was hardly stock with straight pipes. The class consisted of his Honda and about five 72 Blue H2s. Well, the best he could do was 12.9s while all the H2 were around 12.6. He didn't last long, the bone stock H2s that were all faster. I can still remember the winner was a middle aged fellow running mid 12s all day long. After the race, he said "awl this was nothing, I tour this motorcycle to Florida now and then. That day had a profound impact on my view of the Kawasaki triple and two stroke motorcycles. Two years later I purchased a new 74 H2 and later that same year a 72 H2. I took the 74 H2 to the local quarter mile strip in June of 74 and ended up racing H2s, average 10 races a year, till 2008 will I said enough.

Those are some great stories fellas, , except for the guy that died on the H2, sad story.

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1969 H1, 1971 G3SSA, 1974 G5, 1973 H2A, 1975 S3A, 1975 H1F, 1973 Z1, 1988 HD FLTC, Captain America chopper, 2000 Excelsior Henderson, 1965 Bridgestone BS90

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That is sad, there was a mushroom cloud from the explosion......it not a bike to just hop and go crazy.......needs to be respected and would behove a first time rider to get used to it for a half an hour or so at least.........I have a buddy that rode mine last summer, gets right on it, goes up the road, in less than 1 minute I could hear him really getting on it........ he came back, lost his ball cap (I wear a full helmet, Jacket, Gloves, Boots and gear) and was all wide eyed, said it came up on him pretty good...........I just shook my head and told him "Your an Idiot, that bike can get you hurt real bad"...........guy won't listen to anybody.......thats why we call him "God"..........keeps talking about climbing on the tank..........with my new paint, I'll friggin kill him if he does that !!!..........anyways, you still gotta love your buddys at the end of the day...........really, what else do you have in life.

THX Phil

My older brother(7 years older than me)asked if he could ride my 750. I told him that he couldn't handle it and he said "sure I can, I used to ride those Bridgestones when I worked at the Mobil station", so I let him ride it(I know )and he rolled out of the driveway into the street and of course cranked it. As soon as he started to roll it on it did a yawing wheelie to the right and fell over. He picked it up, pushed it back into the driveway, handed me my helmet and said "your right, I can't handle it" and walked up the street. Scratched up the fender, broke a blinker, oil pump cover, bent the handlebars, and wrecked a foot peg rubber. Lesson learned.

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1969 H1, 1971 G3SSA, 1974 G5, 1973 H2A, 1975 S3A, 1975 H1F, 1973 Z1, 1988 HD FLTC, Captain America chopper, 2000 Excelsior Henderson, 1965 Bridgestone BS90

When I was young and had an H2 - and still do. 1978 I was 18 when I bought mine - still have it and I'm not the only one here that has the same story.

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This is true. Where I grew up the hills were so steep and long, when your ball rolled down the hill you just said "screw it"...

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I got a new H2 in '72 - there is not enough room on the Internet for all the stories about those days...!

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