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yesterday was on Paris back from work with my H2 and an other guy on bike said me:
"you should have troubles, you're smoking from exhausts"
guess what he rode









































Honda four K 6

Funny, just last night I was thinking about comments I've heard about our triples, like "your valve guides need work" and "your rings are shot".

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If it surges, that's normal, upshift.

JP, you should have told him his engine was low on oil, because it wasn't smoking out the exhaust, the way it should have been.

We had some very nice compliments for Honda's way back when, here are a couple,

HONDA, Heavy, Obsolete, No Dam-ned Acceleration

HONDA, Hop On Nothin', Dumb Ar-se (As-s)

It gets a LOT worse from here, folks.

If you get that again, just tell him you thought you would try running diesel, and it works great, just a bit of smoke. And he should try it!

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Twist the throttle, tilt the horizon, and have a great time. What triples are all about...........

John it's an idea but not sure seeing him again, when the traffic light went green I started quietly with a cold engine and outperfoormed the poor Hondu

Dave we think in Europe that Honda Four was an homogeneous bike:
No ground clearance
Unsteady
No brake
Unreliable
Unperformed (excepted the very earlies calling K0 in continental Europe which arrived still after a mach III on a 1/4 mile)

When I worked at R.C. Engineering eons ago, the first time I ride my very modified H2-R clone engine'd street H2 to work, they all wondered what the heck that thing was. Some, obviously very ignorant people, didn't think it was so very much, until lunch, when an impromptu drag race ensued on the private street in front of the shop.

Of the 12 runs I made against a number of both Honda's and Kawasaki fours, the ONLY one that beat me, by half a bike length, was a very modded Z1, out to 1198 cc's, and supercharged (YES, we built blower bikes for the street).

I was in charge of the engine building and modification departments then, and worked on both drag bikes, the "Sorcerer" double, and, the then new rear engine'd, code name "Blow-Job". Nobody that worked there ever challenged me again to a drag race.

I like John's idea of the "Diesel" info.

I don't get many of the bad valve or ring comments but often get the "100MPH wheelie" BS. I don't say anything as usually that guy is in a group of others and I don't want to embarrass him. Just Sayin.

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This is true. Where I grew up the hills were so steep and long, when your ball rolled down the hill you just said "screw it"...

WHAT!!!! yours dont do 100 mph wheelies??? Man that sucks!

The cool part is you win by default when your bench racing in the parking lot ..unless theres a corner… then your just leave your wife to collect the insurance and marry another!

Only 100mph? Some drunk was tellin me about 145mph wheelies on an H2!

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H2B..... H1E..... Z1B ..... RD350...... X6 Hustler..... TS250.... CB750 ..... CB550...... and a Bomber!!

I had a girl with a bunch a Harley guys say my bike was "Smoking real bad".
To their credit, the HD guys had a pause, and then burst out laughing.

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Busy doing more riding than wrenching.......