Comments on: Kawasaki H1 Mach III 500

By: Jay Vousden

Jay Vousden — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:07:47 +0000

What is Ken stressing about. This Kwak is an awesome bike, who cares who he thinks owns it.

By: joe momma

joe momma — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 02:50:34 +0000

…late 70′s one pal had a 500 kaw and the other had brand new triumph triple……they were dead even match drag racing…..both wheelied and spun…..great fun…..

By: pingping

pingping — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:30:20 +0000

stop guys memorys flooding back making my mouth water.

By: Fred Aleguas

Fred Aleguas — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:50:51 +0000

Actually, the 250 was the S1, the 350 was the S2, and the 400 successor was the S3. I had a beautiful ’74 S3, bought new, my first bike.Kawasaki had cured the evil handling and this was arguably the best handling triple they made. Succeeded by the KH series, they were awesome. I did everything with mine, starting off with a sissy bar and the standard bars, then the cafe route with low-rise bars and rearsets, to production road-racing with clubmans. Pretty good competition with the RD’s at the time, hampered by the pipes and ground clearance. Could be cured by hangin’ off, and a great bike. I vintage race a RD-400 now, and wish I could find my old S3! Oh, the memories!

By: Steven keffer

Steven keffer — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 02:11:38 +0000

My first bike was a red 1970 500 Mach III that had been ported and bored out twice because of seized pistons. When I finally got everthing working right on the oil system and using Klotz oil in the injectors to cut down on the smokeit was a wild ride. At 6,000 it felt like you had a second engine and wanted to pull your arms out of socket. I out ran so many 750 4 strokes that i thought they were a joke. When a local bought a 750 H2 that was supposedly built to Denco specs and a 13 tooth front cog. That is when I realized how special my 500 was. I had 11.70 quarter mile to his 11:30 but his top end was 110. my bike would hit 110 in 3rd gear and 128 in the quarter mile. Hole shots were a juggling act between lighting the tire up and standing the bike up. The perfect hole shot would spin the rear tire while carrying the front wheel 6-8″ off the ground through ist and 2nd gear.

By: Spoke

Spoke — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 07:23:55 +0000

And then there was the H2 Kaw 750 cctriple what a beast, the Triumph 3 500 cc was no competition back then.Purchasing this mate for my H1 was great, i had a pr of thunderbolts that were straining to be free the massive 750 had a blast wot that was unbelievable the rpm tightened it sounded like large chain saws on steroids boy would she run, seemed she knew when to release her power, nice
Spoke
Keep the rubber side down

By: Spoke

Spoke — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 07:14:25 +0000

I purchased my H1 lime green(Kaw Green) bought when i came back when i came home from Vietnam in 72 had the HD superglide night train also boy was it a slug 1200cc against a 500 cc what a difference, but the little H1 stood it’s ground, those were the days.
Spoke
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