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Triple Testimonies & Comments
Updated: 06/2003

This section is very informal and is meant as a source of enjoyable reading. As to when these testimonies were made, most of the time I haven't a clue. You are welcome to submit your testimonies and will be posted ASAP. I hope to collect more and more as we go. Just relax and enjoy browsing through the list and I am sure some of these even remind you of yourself.

Latest posts are at bottom of page.


Why can't one just own one Triple?
1.  Right now I have a bunch of project bikes and  no money or movement on the bikes:
1969 H-1 500 Blue and white serial #00229 all in parts
1970 H-1 500 Charcoal black all together, need tires, paint, de-rust..
1974 H-1 500 needs, work, motor mostly complete
1976 KH500  needs engine work, tires paint, mostly complete
1972 H-2 750 needs motor (Complete rolling chassie)
1974 H-2 750 needs top end.
1974 H-2 750 needs engine rebuild/gauges/tires/seat/ paint.....
1974 H-2 750 needs crank/top end
1975 H-2 750 rolling chassy only
and a moped.....believe it or not there is not one running bike out of the bunch...(Barrie Blueian, CA)

2. My personal philosophy is: Man cannot have too many Triples!...(Robert, OK)

3. I am guilty, too....(Y.T.)


Been around or own one before and would love to own one today.
1.  i always wanted an h2. they came out while i was in the navy and i can still hear their screaming when i'd go home on leave. they sounded like
i was at laconia all the time! we used to joke about the local h2 pilots and would count the times we'd see them on the interstate waiting for their friends to come get them after a drag race. seems they'd win the race at the cost of a seized engine! bikes were fast but the pilots were stupid! we'd joke about what you'd find in an h2's tool box and the 2 things were always a block of wood and a sledge hammer to knock the pistons out! remember those days? their sound still draws me to want one. it says.....ride me and let me kill you. if you wink, i will! ok...going off a 23 year lapse in bikes, didn't they make steering dampers to help the front ends? what were the absolute things that needed to be done to stock bikes to
keep them running? seems everyone had expansion chambers and stingers with clip ons! what year was the green machine? wasn't that a 400?how available are parts today? fill me in and rope me in too! mid life is grabbing at me!....(Ski, VA Beach)

Self-Proclaimed Triple Nuts
1. Triple nut? me? yes yes yes....(Bruce, IL)

How would you describe a Triple?
1. Is that the 2 stroke straight line blaster that I almost killed myself on in about 1973 or so??
Cracked it open in 2nd gear- "damn," said I, " this sucker rocks."  About  [if
I recall] 7 to 75oo rpm the bike "comes on the cam" {if it was a 4 stroke, but
i wasn' but same effect}, and the front wheel comes off the ground and I just
about went over before I figure out (duh) I think it's time to roll off the
throttle. ??  Is that whut u got??  <<<Shivering with fear.....(David)

2. Missile with  needles.
3. Rocket with sprockets.
4. Antisocial
5. Widow Maker
6. Rodeo Bike
7. Mean, Wicked and Nasty
8. Explosive
9. Uncontrollable Beast
10. Green Meanies (Race Versions)


Farewell comments
1. keep blowing smoke in their face ha ha (Bruce, IL)
2. keep her smokin (Bruce, IL)
3. My H-2C rules! (Matt Riley, CA)

20-year-old memory has awakened
I was out of high school and started to work for a small foreign parts store. One of the guys there had just bought an 1972 H2 750 which was a demo for the one of the local Kaw shops. They had gone over the bike with porting, bringing the compression up to 15 to 1 and lowering the seat height. I remember he would always laugh and say ten miles to the gallon in the same breath. The bike was a ripe roaring, growling, simmering beast. The energy the bike protruded at idle just made you stand and stare. The engine rumbled, the air rushed in, the exhaust popped and pushed air out like it was going to take off. A little throttle and you wondered if the tack was ever going to stop moving up. Even at idle I was plain scared and I was just looking at this air sucking smoke belching monster.

The one lone ride 20 or so years ago happened one cold December night in New Orleans. The guy with the H2 had a party to go to with his girl friend and thought we could trade vehicles which was my MGBGT for his H2. So I said yes.He took off for the party and I took off for the highway. I started ridding keeping my eyes glued to the tach. The noises below the seat always kept my attention. The beast made me feel like I was were riding something with a big energy wheel like some toy Hotwheels car. Start the engine cranking and god knows when the tack will settle down. I did some roll-ons to check the beast out and got scared fast. I seriously felt the engine would pull me right off the seat and leave me on the street. I remember my elbows got straight too quick and my rear was moving back way too fast. The tach looked to climb faster as the revs got faster. There was no hesitation, no question that I could roll on the power as fast and as much as I liked at any speed, just turn the throttle and the power rolls out. The scare meter I would later say. There is one memory that I tell people is the fright of
seeing the tack and the Speedo move up the scale at the same rate. At the same rate, god what at beast.

I just bought a 1972 H2 blue. Have it in pieces in the patio store room. Keeps me awake at night. Its alive!!!!!

john kleck


I confess.  I have the "triple bug"
I didn't know what a Kawasaki triple was 4 years ago when I found my first one. I was a really junky 72 H2 750 that had parts from a H1 500 on it for $250.  I soon got really interested in them as I read old magazine road tests that raved about their power and performance.  Photos of  people riding wheelies gave me the bug for one. I wanted to restore the H2 but realized it would be easier and cheaper to search for a really nice one that needed very little if anything.

 I eventually found that bike advertised in a national magazine. I found a 1974 H2 with 1700 original miles!  The seller gave me a super deal because he said 74s aren't worth as much as the other years (BTW:anyone know why this is??)  This motorcycle runs like a wild untamed Stallion but could use a better paint job.  After the sale the seller has sent me a NOS original gas tank he found but I am having no luck finding the sidecovers or tail piece.  I found out Joe's parts source was a Kawasaki shop in Ohio that had been a Kawasaki dealer for over 30 years!  Their old parts supplies are now all gone and they only want to sell new machines, yuk.  Anyone know what kind of motorcycles Kawasaki was even producing in 1966?  Does anyone know who is experienced at repainting Kawasaki triples?

Got the bug,  Les


IF IT WON'T WHEELIE IT AINT WORTH RIDIN' - 01/1999
I REMEMBER WHEN THE '72 H2 CAME OUT. I SAVED ONE OF THEIR SALES
BROCHURES FOR YEARS. I WISH I STILL HAD IT. MY BEST FRIEND HAD A NEW
GOLD '73 IN HIGH SCHOOL. WE LOVED TO DO WHEELIES ON THAT BIKE. I BOUGHT
MY PURPLE '75 NEW IN '77. WHEN I SAW A BRAND NEW H2 IN THE SHOW ROOM OF
MY LOCAL KAWASAKI DEALER, I KNEW THAT I WOULD BUY IT. I SAVED EVERY
NICKEL AND DIME I COULD GET MY HANDS ON UNTIL I HAD   $1700 DOLLARS
CASH. I THOUGH MAYBE THAT WAS ENOUGH TO PAY CASH FOR THE BIKE. WELL, THE
GUY WANTED $2300 FOR IT. HE TOLD ME THAT HE FIGURED ANYONE WITH THAT
MUCH CASH IN HAND WAS SERIOUS ABOUT BUYING A BIKE, AND HE FINANCED THE
REST FOR ME HIMSELF. I RODE THE PISS OUT OF THAT BIKE FOR TWO YEARS
BEFORE I SET IT UP. I EVENTUALLY SOLD IT AFTER I GOT MARRIED. I WISH I
STILL HAD THAT BIKE. BY THE WAY, I ALSO LOVE RD AND RZ YAMAHAS. I ALSO
USED TO OWN A '79 DAYTONA SPECIAL.....GLENN -

ride it once... and live it forever! - 06/2000
Triples..singles...twins...quads. Two strokes and four strokes . I have ridden and built and crashed
all the above!!! I have ridden bikes in  Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Brazil,  Africa, Japan,
Australia, Germany, and all over the US of A. Two of my most favorite triples belong to YT Bui (whom I
will meet in person soon I hope). Just like every person who said they have ridden a triple (H1 and H2
are the only triples I feel are worth talking about or owning) remembers just what they want to remember
about them. The truth about them is that the H1 and H2 were not the greatest bike on the road. Having
owned a brand new H1 and a brand new H2 back in the early '70's I know this for a fact!! I was the
original motor head back then....shock and wheel/tire upgrades...swing arm bracing... frame
bracing...lower bars...rear-sets...chambers and bigger carbs....getting rid of the fat these bikes had on
them.

I remember blowing a 500 motor so bad at night (down pipes on the Kawasaki racing chambers glowing
cherry red) oil gushed out of the split cases so fast, so hot the motor caught fire and soon I knew the
'glass road racing tank would catch next. Being near the beach in Tampa, Florida I just held on and aimed
for the water to put out the flames.  I remember ridding out to Clearwater Beach  (Florida) one summer
night on a highly modified H2 with glass body work upgraded  suspension ,clip-ons, rear-sets and some
real trick chambers that had enough clearance to put the bike on a real rear wheel stand. The oohs and
ahhhs it got and the ticket I got for wheeling the bike for over 300 yards in third gear in front of four
cop cars and 250 plus people on the beach (this was worth the ticket as people then thought  cars were
soooo cool!) !! The look on peoples faces as I came by them at over 50 mph!!!

  These triple motors were designed to do what they did...last for a while and  then get rid of it or put
it back together.   But the sound.....no other motor from back in the '70's I have ever had or heard can
match the noise a well built triple power plant with the right carbs and chambers and powerband.
  Yes,  you fellow triple nuts it is true what they say about a legend...they may never come back,  but
they will live forever.  I know I keep saying to all I meet or talk to on the phone, that I am getting
away from triple as I sold my fifth bike last year, but every time I see a picture of a nice modified
triple I see a bike that I can make better, handel better, go faster, stop better, cut off some weight,
get better ground clearance so I get to hang a knee on the ground  in one of my favorite riding spots.
So go ahead... ride it once... and live it forever!!!

Ed Turnipseed


    SATAN LOVES A 2-STROKE - 06/2003

 I got the kawasaki 750 three cylinder motorcycle going today. I bought it 2 weeks ago and it had been sitting for 3 years before that so I suspected that the fuel was shit but being ever the optimist I tried to start it anyway. I used ether to "encourage" combustion in the old gas and tho I got a couple of nasty pops and one harleyesque backfire it was obvious that nothing was going to happen until homage had been paid to the "venturi gods". Off come the carbs. A little complex as the "injecto-crude" oiling system has pipes going every which way and hooked to all 3 carbs plus main bearings and some secret passages that may lead all the way back to Saudi Arabia for all I know. It took a couple of hours and just as I was bolting the last one in place my friend, Jack came by. If I'm the Old Squid then Jack is the Giant Squid. "You're just in time" i said. " "That sounds ominous" he said."
We wheeled the bike out and I kicked it about 3 times and it locked up
solid. I was ready to kick harder under the "stupidity got me in to this mess so brute force should get me out" mode of male behavior when Jack yells "WAIT!" "you have a hydraulic lock"! Turns out that this can happen on a 2 stroke when water, gas, or, in this case, oil fill the crankcase and then is forced into the combustion chamber. The piston goes partway up and then the incompressibility of the fluid stops all movement. out come the sparkplugs and yes, the left hand one is full of oil. I kicked her thru a few times and puked a few cc's of oil out. I decided to hurry the process by putting the two non-oiled sparkplugs in and seeing if it would run as a 2 cylinder with the left plug missing.

Remember the line in the ballad of the the Beverly Hillbillies where Jebs "shootin at some food and up from the ground comes a bubbelin crude"?
Well, think gusher!!! I had sprayed ether into the 2 good cylinders, gave the kick starter a mighty whack and "BANG" gitty bang bang! It started running and there was oil _everywhere_! I'm lookin down at the empty sparkplug hole so I get a face full. The rest is all over the left side of the bike. Now I know where the tank full of injection oil disappeared too. the check valve must have stuck and it drained into the downhill side of the crankcase. I shut it off and suggest to Jack that he could hold a cloth over the hole while we try it again. He allowed as to how it would be a better idea if he stood on the right side and started it while I held the cloth. Well, this worked and after 1/2 a minute I figured we'd shut it off, put the plug in, and go for it.

The bike started and gave a sterling demonstration of why the EPA hates 2 stroke engines. It laid a thick white smoke screen that you could of
hidden the Bismarck in. Jack has some old DDT in a can in his garage and he suggested we add it to the oil, fog the roads for mosquitoes, and send the bill to the County. I took off down the road and after a couple of miles it did clean out and I have to say that it doesn't smoke at all under most loads now.

Riding the bike is trip down bad memory lane. The engine has no power below 4000rpm and only a little more up to 6000. from there to the 7500 rpm redline there is too much power. A truly evil setup! Almost uncontrollable as you slip back on the flat seat till all your weight is over the rear axle which quickly wants to become the "lower" axle as the front starts to hoist. The front wants to shake, the frame wants to twist and flex! This is not a bike to inspire confidence in anyone. A disposable superbike. Vibration is Richter 9 and I can tell that this wouldn't be fun for a long trip tho in 6th it does have a sweet spot right at 70mph so it can be ridden gently and enjoyed within this narrow range. I also know that balancing the carbs would do wonders for some of the vibration too.

Cornering wasn't as bad as I'd been led to believe. The bike is light and neutral and with the steering dampener set to a middle click it corners fine. This wasn't pushing it hard tho so I don't know how it would handle bent way over or under power. For just put putting around on this could be fun
except for just one little problem...

This puppies got full race expansion chambers and do they ever sing a song of raw, harsh speed. Sure i can go faster on my Honda Blackbird, but it doesn't feel like it till I'm going 140. This Kawasaki feels fast at 70 and like a volcano rumbling... hmmm, good name for this bike: St. Helens. It shakes, it smokes and it spews hot stuff out of the top. Crack it towards the 100 mph mark and you envision washing machines full of tumbling grenades. Loaded gravel trucks dropping off high cliffs! St. Helens has all the mechanical finesse of a rock crusher. As you approach the redline, the pipes shriek and snarl. This thing is an animal!

The longer I rode it, the more I appreciated the rawness of it. Satan invented the 2 stroke motor but like a lot of his inventions (unprotected sex-n-drugs-rock-n-roll to mention a few) it speaks to my evil self. As I whacked it on, I kept hearing that little demon on my left shoulder yelling "go for it! twist this fuckers tail!" My guardian angel said "I¹m outa here!" and got off and walked home! well, it is a hoot but I gotta sell it. I'm keeping the 500 triple I bought with St. Helens and intend to do a full restoration on it next winter. i need the money so St. Helens is for sale to any speed crazed antiquarians out there. $2500 and she's got new tires, battery, plugs, rebuilt master cylinder, rebuilt wheel cylinder and air cleaners. She comes with the race exhaust and a perfect set of stock pipes and headers. the good and the bad. here's your chance to ride with the Devil.
The Old Squid
Greg's home page
http://www.rockisland.com/~gregh/index.html


MONSTERS - 06/2003
THANK YOU FOR MAKING SUCH AN INTERESTING AND VARIED SITE

MY THIRD BIKE WAS A 70 H1  RED. BOUGHT 71 AND RAN FAITHFULLY FOR OVER 20 YEARS   LET IT GO IN 97 BEFORE KNOWLEDGE OF WEB

HAVE STUMBLED ACROSS 74 H2  ROLLING CHASSI IN BOXES  NO TITLE....THATS
OK HAVENT SEEN IT YET I LIVE IN BAY AREA
ITS JUST OUTSIDE LA BUT IT LOOKS LIKE A GO IF NOT JUST FOR THE ADVENTURE  HAVE NO IDEA ABOUT
DETAILS  JUST BLA BLA  QUOTE   ITS ALL THERE

SO IT IS A POSSIBILITY WE MAY BE IN COM

YES I SURVIVED THE FIRST ONE  AND BEING OF A TRADITIONALIST NATURE WILL
TRY FOR THE STOCK          WHO KNOWS AT THIS POINT WHY THE GUY TOOK IT
ALL APART   OH IT WAS PART OF A DEAL OF 2 BIKES  AN H1  RUNNING  AND
THIS

WELL FOR 350   WHAT DO YA THINK  WORD IS ITS NOT BEAT UP

HEY ONCE AGAIN     THIS WEB THING IS FUN

WILL KEEP YOU POSTED AND PERHAPS YOU CAN GUIDE ME IN THIS RESTORATION

MAN THAT WINNER WITH THE CHROME NORVIN STYLE TANK AND CAFE SEAT SHURE
LOOKED BOLD

FUTURE MEMBER        BOB HAMMOND


06/2003
After reading your testimonial page I couldn't help but write. I bought
my current bike a 73 h2 4 years ago for 300$ cnd, (about 200$ US)
running. It was funny how I came to hear about these bikes as this is my
12th bike. I had never heard about them until I bought this waterbuffalo
for 50$, and flipped it for 300$ (just to ugly a bike for my taste) The
guy told me about the H2 and how they raced them in the vintage class,
and that was what the water buffalo was to become. Then I happened to
get told about an H2 sitting in a guys shed about 5 years later, I
bought it the same night. I am quite abit excited about finishing this
redo, and just sealed up the engine today. I guess the only testimonial
I can give is about the time spent in it's redo, and the seller who said
it was the scariest bike he ever rode (he weighed about 250). This is
the
largest bike I have owned I started out on a honda z50 18 years ago, and
from what I have seen in this website I'm ready for this H2. The wheelie
capabilities described do scare me a bit though, as my 86 hurricane 600
was the closest I got. Some things I can say about the redo are: 7/8"
aluminum round stock 34" wide makes great drag bars that bolt on, also a
7/8 aluminum tubing with a 3/4 hardwood dowling pounded through the
center makes really still bars that weigh about 1/2 a pound), the visors
on the gauges can be removed without any change to stock by removing the
lock washers under the bottom nuts. Also a 130/90/16 tire fits just
right in the back, with removing the center stand and a slight mod to
the rear drum brace ( just a slight V in the center to follow the stock
swingarm ). The rear drum braces on these bikes and some japanese bikes
are stainless steel and a wet sand with 600 then 1500 then a polish
makes them look nicer than chrome. The seats can also be redone with
just a single piece of vinyl and some patience stretching (no stitching
required). Also if your tank is starting to rust inside a local rad shop
can hot tank it and dryline the inside with this great sealant (about
50$ to do, and it'll never rust again). Some of my previous bikes have
included: 2 xs360's (still own one), 86 hurricane 600, 66 bonnieville
650 4, ysr 80, ts 175, z50, yz 80, trail 110, 72 water buffalo gt 500,
86 xl 500, and NOW AN H2. Well after 600 hours of work on this bike I am
looking forward to putting it together and riding it, glad I learned to
ride first. I'll send a pic once it's done.

P.S: I have one question regarding H2's I hope someone can answer. When
a bike gets bored and pipes and jetted, the oil supply to the engine
stays stock with the stock oil pump doesn't it, but yet the amount of
air/fuel going to the engine increases. This would sound like to me that
instead of a 20 to 1 ratio the engine would be getting maybe a 16-18 to1
ratio so it would be running leaner on oil. I plan to add a couple cap
fulls of oil to each tank of fuel, but if there is an experienced H2
mechanic out there, could you let me know.

Russ        rhudson@recordalbums.com


06/2003
Started riding bikes in 1972 first bike was a Honda CB350. Had a few other
> small bikes and after a wreck, was riding another CB350. When a add in the
> News Paper caught my eye, It said "Kawasaki 750 $600". I rode my CB350 to
> Covington Hwy in Atlanta and met a guy who said he had a bike that he was
> not going to race anymore. Out back he had a couple of Suzuki's chained to a
> tree and he pushed this 1972 Blue H2 into the carport. I did not really have
> the money to buy the bike but for $600 and a 750cc that was all I knew..
> Hondas were going for 8-9 used then. Never even heard of a 2 Stroke street
> bike. The guy explained that he had put all the street legal parts back on
> the bike (lights etc..), and offered to test ride the bike. So Scott Smith
> and I (After being told that I had to hold the choke down to start it) made
> our way out of the subdivision. Once on a major road and pinging along in
> 2nd gear, Scott says "get on it", with that said I made the mistake of
> rolling back on the throttle.. a deep thwaAA sounded for a slight moment and
> the raaaAAANNNGGGG and the front wheel lurched into the air as the gauges
> inserted themselves into my faceshield. As they say about things seeming
> like slow motion.. I feel two feet hitting my hands as I try to man-handle
> this thing down, it was Scott on the back who was only hanging off the back
> by his feet under my handgrips. A few hundred feet later we were skidding
> (upright) with the back wheel locked trying to stop before the red light
> (which we did with feet to spare). Scott jumped off and screamed some
> obscenities (which meant how cool it was). With the heart racing away we
> turned the H2 around and rode (slowly) back to the Guy's house. He ask "Well
> whaddja think?". I immediately said "I want this bike".
> This was 1976, somehow I managed to come up with the $600 and had to follow
> my parents 20 miles around I-285 to home (they were driving a VW Beetle).
> Think I stayed in 3rd the whole way. Over the next two years I spent every
> living moment Winter and Summer mounted upon the H2, even spent some nights
> sleeping on the bike (Yes ON). In 78 stored the bike and went in the USAF
> and the Philippines for a few years. After becoming a civilian again I began
> to rebuild. In 83 it was on the road again. Newly back stateside and not
> familiar with the changes in the roads, I followed a friend on a GPZ550 down
> a unfamiliar road which to my surprise had a sharp curve with LOTS of gravel
> from a daycare parking lot, and a green dumpster straight ahead. Looked at
> the speedo (70mph) and decided to jump when I got to the dumpster. Shattered
> my shoulder to pieces on a driveway but even worse the H2 tangled with the
> dumpster. It needed major parts.. I had a extra parts bike. But no money.
> Kept it all in the back until 89 when I decided that H2's where gone and
> never to be again. Sold it all to a race shop for $50. Time ticks on. About
> 2 years ago I started to notice all the Triple stuff on the web. Then early
> 1999 I decided it was time to find me one once again. I found a complete 74
> H2C in Indiana and had a friend drive from SC to pick her up. I live 40
> miles from the Atlantic ocean on the coast of south Georgia and there is
> nothing quite like the smell of a H2 in the morning to make life as good as
> it ever will get.
>
> Bart Colbert


06/2003
Hi My name is Mike. Back in the late 70's, I owned a 1973 H-2 750. Looking
through your site reminded me of the bike. It was a real gas to drive! I
would reach 100 m.p.h. whenever I took it out, which was the reason I sold
it. I was concerned that I would get killed on the thing, being 20 years old
with no fears. Now I would like to buy another one just for the sheer joy of
knowing that I could beat most bikes off the line with it. Thanks for
bringing back the memories and keep up the good work on your website.
                            Mike

06/2003
                     My name is Mike Nixon and my home is in Des Moines
IA. I am writing to you in reguards to a problem I have encountered with
my 72 H2. A little ove a year ago my wife and I were in the market for a
bike. I knew it would be a Kawasaki but the new ones well the way you
have to sit on them leaves me cold. I grew up on triples and had no idea
that in my own back yard was a dealer that had a few. I drove a hour and
a half to Horning cycle center and fell for 1 of the three H2's there.
The one I wanted was still in the all over the place stage. There was a
boltless shining black  frame on the stand and a fresh polished engine
on the counter. The blue tank and covers and fender had just arrived
from being painted and decaled in England. They were still waiting for
several NOS items from Japan before assembly, every thing that could be
bought new was still in the boxes waiting. Reflecters and lenses had
never seen sunlight and most of the chrome peices had never been touched
by a piece of brillo the new seat had never been sat on.
The ask price on his other 72 was $4200.(much less than perfect). A 75
H2 for $4200 (better but not a 72). I could tell that the one under
current restoration was going to be a high quality show bike and it was.
So I entered into the process of buying it before it was complete. We
agreed on $4500. plus I would trade in a 72 H2 and a 73 S1 as part of
the deal plus three months of waiting for assembly. Both of my bikes
were with out titles so they were dubbed parts bikes. So I would end up
with about $7000. in a perfectly ground up restored H2. I was happy, I
found even more NOS stuff such as oil tank, stablizer, cables,and so on
to amount to over the course of a year may be another $1000 or so. I
have only but aprox. 1000 mi on it in a year riding only on sunny days.
                                   To my point, I manage restaurants for
a living I work at a local airport in Des Moines. This May I decided to
ride my H2 to work. There is no motorcycle parking so I parked in front
to run in and transmit some data and planned to be there for less than
20 min.10 min went by and a police officer came in my office and said
you may want to move your bike because the contractors are getting ready
to paint out front. I was finished so I grabbed my helmet and figured
I'de ride home. I walked out with her talking along the way. When I got
out side it was raining white paint all over me and my H2.
I called op's and they took pictures and I went home. Later that day we
called the insurance company and explained what had happened and the
were going to send a adjuster. In the mean time I made it to 5 body
shops all of who offered thier sympathy but could not undo the damage.
So I took it back to Horning and they quoted me $6900. to tear down and
redo all of the paint work + it would take me into over the winter. On
top of that for $6900 that did not remove the paint from the engine or
chrome or all of the rubber cables,peg's ect this tacked on another
$3500 in estamates. I gathered all of this and made a file for my
insurance company. last week my adjuster shows up and tells me what a
fine bike it is and took several pictures and left. He found one flaw
and was seeming to key in on it there is a small scratch on my right
fork and he claims that at some point it was laid down.(looks like a
cast mark to me)He stated he called Horning and a buddy that owns a 75
H1 Horning agreed that it was 90+ point show bike and the fact of my
purchase price and trade. A day later he calls and says that he would
give $2250 and let me keep my bike or total it and give me $5000 stating
that the NADA tops it out at around $4500 max value. I came unglued and
a arguement on value of these bikes took off. At this point I am
attempting to discover where I can find information on evaluating value
on a 72 H2. First I turned to the Blue Book and NADA I cant get back
past 1975 I cant figure out how my adjuster got it back to 72. And the
sale and purchase seems to be limited to clubs such as yours or through
private sale.
The data just does not seem to be accessable through the standard means.
This means that you and your club members are to be considered valid in
determining apoximated value of the bikes your club are geared for. I
have seen over the years several bikes at your site ask price in excess
of $9000. That is ask price but the sell at price average is what I am
attempting to pass on to Allied insurance. Can you help me or point me
in the right direction to find this information.

                                Thank you
                                 Mike Nixon


 

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