1975 Kawasaki H1F 500 - 8-Page Vintage Motorcycle Road Test Article for Sale

1975 Kawasaki H1F 500 - 8-Page Vintage Motorcycle Road Test Article For Sale

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1975 Kawasaki H1F 500 - 8-Page Vintage Motorcycle Road Test Article
Original, vintage motorcycle articlePage Size: Approx. 8" x 11" (21 cm x 28 cm) each pageCondition: GoodKAWASAKIstill the fasteststraight-line 500 around,but it hasn't yet learned thefine art of turning gracefullyBack in 1969. Kawasaki unleashed thefirst of their famous asphalt-burners, theHI 500cc Mach 111. Anyone with even atrace of sporting blood in his veins wasturned on in one wav or another bv thosewhite-tanked screamers. People reallypaid attention when a Mach 111 stormedaway from a stoplight, for they knewsomething spectacular was bound to hap-pen. They usually heard a heavy intakeroar, followed bv cither a burnout or awheelie—or perhaps both—maybe simul-taneouslyTo say that those first 500s were peakywas al least the understatement of theyear. And to make matters worse, one endof the chassis didn't seem to know whatthe other end was doing It wasn’t tooterribly bad for straight-line riding, butwhen you stuffed it into a turn, it wasanybody's guess where it would come out.It would wobble and dance around andsometimes lift the front wheel at the mostinappropriate limes. Nevertheless. Mach11 Is sold wzell because the buyers liked thatblistering engine performance.In the two years that followed. the en-gine was mellow'cd somewhat to make thebike more rideablc. Those bikes kept thesame frame design, the same ignition(CDI), and the same front brake, but theywere a little bit slower.In 1972. Kawasaki put back some of...15963