H2RTuner wrote:
It was one extremely adverse American executive that thought every penny for those parts should only go to Kawasaki that stopped the whole works.
I always assumed the policy of not stocking parts very long was intended to make motorcycles become obsolete when they got "old", therefore encouraging the sales of the new ones. If I'm right, that executive intentionally blocked your efforts, and if it hadn't been him, it would have been someone else in the organization.
In the late '70s and early '80s I would occasionally to go a local dealer to buy a part, and the parts guy would condescendingly tell me that my '72 H2 was too old, and parts were no longer available. That attitude caused me to make the parts I needed whenever possible, and avoid dealers as much as possible. Nothing any car or motorcycle dealer has ever done since then has convinced me to change my attitude, although I've seen plenty of stuff that reinforces it.