KAWASAKI KH & S SERIES FORUM

Major Malfunction · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 12:24 am Post subject: New addition to the collection

OK I'll bite.
I just bought this one last Saturday.

'77 6600 miles, never been dropped, new rear tire, all cleaned up and running good. Chrome is spotless. Everything is there. The airbox has been removed, but I have it. The rubber hoses are hard as plastic. Big scrape in the tank paint, but no dent. $750

Mal

admin · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 2:24 am Post subject:

I'm soooooooo jealous the smaller triples are unbelievably cheap in the US :cry: :cry:

Major Malfunction · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:14 am Post subject:

I've seen them (KH400s) on ebay go for $1500. The guy who sold me this one knew what he was doing. He is a big collector and has a philosophy where he wants to keep these bikes in the hands of people who care. This is the second bike I purchased from him. He told me he once had a generous offer for a GT380 that he had restored to near perfect condition that he turned down because the the guy was a broker and was going to export it to the UK. He said he would sell it for a lot less to someone in the states that would keep it. Sorry to all you on that side of the pond. :wink:

Here is the GT380 he sold me last year: He did all the work. Same price. :-D

Mal

admin · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 9:25 am Post subject:

Go on Mal rub it in :roll: :roll: :D

garya · Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 1:25 pm Post subject:

Very nice Mal. Both of them! :)

GaryA

Major Malfunction · Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 4:02 am Post subject:

Thanks! 8)

There is one more bike in my collection. This one is the one that started the whole thing. You see, back in the '70s when I was a teenager, I owned an RD 350. Due to the lack of an internet, I had no idea what I was doing. I slapped a set of chambers on it and didn't re-jet it. Riding on the freeway, I holed a piston. Sold it to a friend for nothing. But over the years I kept having dreams about that bike. Then one day, I was surfing Ebay and stumbled across an RD in my neck of the woods. The day before, I wasn't even thinking of owning a motorcycle, two days later, it was in my garage. I did a lot of work on it to get it running again although the kid who sold it to me claimed it was a runner. But I knew what I was getting into. Thank the good Lord for the internet. :D

Mal

garya · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 4:02 pm Post subject:

Don't your neighbours get on your case about all those nasty 2 stroke fumes polluting the air? :wink:

Major Malfunction · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 9:50 pm Post subject:

Yeah, The old guy behind me was lookin at me working on the RD once and he said "somethings wrong with it, its smoking." I says:"It supossed to" He says "Well, it stinks." "Thanks" I says... :lol:

Mal

admin · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 9:55 pm Post subject:

:smt037 :smt037 :smt037 :smt037 :smt037

garya · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 10:33 pm Post subject:

:-D :-D :-D :-D
Our neighbours get plenty of 4 stroke loud exhaust noise, can't wait to see the 2 stroke smoke wafting gently over the hedge in the direction of their clean washing drying on the line......
Can't wait to hear what they have to say. Think they'll be impressed? :-)