Beschreibung:

Almost 40 years ago, nothing else on wheels could touch the Kawasaki H2, at least not in stoplight-to-stoplight contests of acceleration. An enlarged follow-on to the rapid H1 500 Mach III, the two-stroke 750cc Triple was all about shear unbridled quickness in a straight line. Block-long wheelies? No problem! Easily modified to even higher levels of performance, H2s took to the dragstrip. Some 750-class records set back then still stand today. With the H2 and the 900cc Z1 that was soon to come, Kawasaki established a hard-hitting performance image that remains to this day. It was a motorcycle that commanded – make that demanded – respect from onlookers and its riders alike. Writing about the H2 in his book Classic Superbikes, Mac McDiarmid noted, "Admiring it from a distance was safer than climbing aboard. The big Kawasaki's uncompromising nature would quite possibly be outlawed today." In fact, it was tightening emissions regulations that eventually did in the raucous H2 and all other performance two-strokes. This first-year model was the last motorcycle built by the late Ron Reichert of Purple Haze Racing. With his Pro Racing Stage 1 tune, this monster of two stroke triple engineering is reputed to produce a truly astonishing 123bhp at the rear wheel. With just over 20,000 well-kept miles on the odometer, this is a time-capsule machine, straight off the mean streets of 1972.