1970s anyone?

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getfoxy

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This bike pulled up today, Had to get a pic as it is one of the cleaner KZs around here.

Always was one of my favorites.

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I had a 74 Honda 750 four cyl with a S&S header (local Co here in So Cal at the time) The speedo was metric so I rarely knew how fast I was going. The old Kawasaki 900 2 stroke was another scary quick bike back in the 70's. Grizz
 
I used to have a 73 Kaw 900....Really stiff suspension and if you ever wanted to know what it was like to ride on a rocket, that was pretty close...
 
There was this black guy back when I was in high school around 75. His name was Skip Kennedy. He rode a Kaw 900 like the devil himself. A freaking maniac, showoff, getting air in dang near all gears. Well one day he lost it and his head was pinched between the curb and the motor of his bike. Glad I wasn't around that particular day to witness this. No helmet law in those days... Not that it would have helped...Grizz
 
Back in my pre-teen thru teen years ('76-'86), I had a smaller '74 Kawasaki bike. It was an enduro, with a high/low 10-gear tranny, so it could be driven either as a street bike or off-road.
Had lots of fun with that old bike.
Some of that "fun", it's a miracle I survived, LOL.
always wanted a larger street bike, but never did buy one.
I was a big fan of Kaws & Yammerhammers back in those days.
"borrowed" a buddies Yamaha Virago one night for a late-night drunken ride around our hometown. I don't remember the exact size...something like a 920, or in that size range (it was a 9-something).LOL
Not the size of bike you should ride @ high speeds in a small town...especially after several beers!LOL
And definitely not advisable to ride over a set of RR tracks which have the pavement rising to them like a mini-ramp while travelling over 90mph!!! Talk about "air"!!!! (somehow I landed w/o incident, but don't understand how, unless it was the fact that I was used to jumping ditches & stuff in our pastures on my small bike)

Sorry for the trip down memory lane.
I couldn't help myself, LOL.
 
That does look like a clean old bike. I remember them when I was a kid but never have rode one.Funny Griz mentioned a black guy that owned one and rode it like the devil, because the bike I remember as a kid was the same scenario..I remember the guys name was Herbie, he fixed my mini-bike for me once. Another guy I work with owned one as well and people talk about how he raised he!! on it...could ride it on the back wheel untill the camshaft area in the heads filled with oil (due to being vertical it wouldn`t drain)and then I guess it would smoke like crazy.
7th Grade Woodshop teacher had one of those like RJM mentioned.
 
Showed my dad that pick and he shook his head and said, "I remember when those Death Sleds came out." He wanted one but mom made him get a 750 Hondamatic instead.

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