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🙃Amazing! He downshifts AND, UPshifts, all while wearing shorts, and a pair of OG "Made In China" flip flops!! I mean, if we goin' THAT HARD, 🤷‍♂why even put on a helmet, and we on a "deserted road"!! -lmao 🤣

Mine gets a sticky clutch sometimes. Usually a few laps around the block with the lever pulled in frees it up.

Absolute awesome guy, was blessed to have known him.

Tony built quite a bit of stuff for me, my brother and a friend. We were all bike drag racers living in Hastings, NE area at the time. My brother and I worked at a speed shop that still exists today and sells Shelby America AC Cobra replicas as well as first class machine work. The current owner was a customer and so respected that shop that it still carries Gessford Machine name. I digressed but it was a key part of all our racing as we did most of our bike work there and at Wolfe Kawasaki where our friend worked. Tony did a number of head and port jobs for my brother and I on our 500s and 750s plus multiple sets of expansion chambers and carb parts. He also built a 500 engine for me to race pro stock class was supposed to be 80hp and based on times probably close to that. Ran a 9.96 128 at Bell Fouche SD track in 1976 or 77 on that bike. Had Tony's famous one wheel wheelie bar on it. My brother's 1972 750cc ran an 11.8 at Kearney NE. It had expansion chambers and maybe some head or cylinder work Tony did. The really cool bike was our friends 900 Kaw! He sent it to Tony for a rebuild and I think it did 130 HP. One of the coolest sounding street machines of any kind I have ever heard. Our shop boss and my brother always said it sounded just like the Offy's running at Indy. It was so unique you always knew when he was dragging the streets. He could never get it under 10 seconds which Tony had guaranteed it would do in a full street mode. He ran low 11s high tens. One day when he was complaining to Tony on the phone that it wasn't getting there, Tony asked him how much he weighed. '320#' LOL Tony told him he needed to let me ride it, I weighed 148 at the time. It was amazing, first time on a 900, ran 9.42et and 148! Tony was happy and so was the owner LOL My brother and a friend went to SF area where Tony's shop was on a road trip. Tony was a gracious host but very hobbled up at the time. He was recovering from a bad wreck on his 750 pro stock bike. Ran 150 mph and got high speed wobble thru the lights. He got puked off the bike and beat up pretty good. Spent quite a while in the hospital and was still recovering. What a tough guy. I talked to him often in my short drag racing career but he was always a wealth of info and willing to help. He even gave me great advice on tuning my 500 pro stock bike for Denver high altitude and how not to let my competition get in my mind. One of the racers out of Pueblo CO area at the time was someone that raced the circuit and Tony knew. Can't remember his name but he ran a Suzuki water buffalo 750s that was sponsored by the dealer in Pueblo or Trinidad CO. Every other race, 2 a month back then at Bandamier we ran off national records. I got a few tenths head start on him based on class records. With Tony's advice and tuning tips I finally beat him one weekend straight up no red light or anything (I had panicked most of my races against him and got the big red light giving him a free pass). They gave checks instead of trophies for those weekends, I have never forgot that big win $50 LOL probably bought something from Tony with it! That was summer of 1976 as I was still working in NE. I was so proud of that one. The racing business certainly could have used more Tony Nicosia's, he was always willing to help and even gave me a great deal on the 500cc triple, special road race crank that went into my 500. Don't know what our friend paid for his 900 build but I had close to $5000 in my pro stock bike (included purchase of the used 500 I had owned once before) and nothing fancy about it, a chunk of change back then. Wish I would have met him in person but always felt like I knew him because he would always chat and listen to my troubles and successes on the phone. I am sure he had better things to do. So funny he likely knew Bo Derek, I came close to meeting her in the horse biz a couple of times. She was friends with a ranch owner in WY that I knew well. They both raised Andalusian horses and bought and sold from each other. Guess horses and bike racing mesh 🙂. Sorry for the long wordy comment but Tony was 'The Best'!

Great beginner bike.

I cant believe thet didn't use a stunt double for the h2

Shouldn"t have to pull it up ,,

Awesome! Just completed my 1970 H1 complete resto in the same Peacock Gray colors. Video coming soon. Cheers!!

Way down here in New Zealand all Kwack triple owners i new new who he was .I wish i kept my triples,be sitting on a goldmine now.Very interesting interveiw.Thanks For putting it on here.

I had one of these, loved it!

I had one of these in 1972. How I survived that animal of a bike I do not know.

Interesting and enjoyable interview with TN. His history and knowledge of early Kawasaki triples was fantastic. I remember reading about him in my youth (I'm now retired), but I've never seen or heard him speak until now. Brilliant !

I've watched this several times. It's the perfect sound recording that does it. I had the same bike. 👌

Blimey that guy must be a. The most talented rider I've ever seen with even more confidence. or b. A complete novice. Why? Look how he was dressed.

Wow, great old vid, havent heard that sound in decades, i had Honda 450 in mid 70s, but these Kowi 500 triples were all the talk back then.

Jeez, how did they get those videos of me?

Awesome incredible vantage footage, especially for the time! Just subscribed. My tuner and dyno man Curt Jordan still has is original 1969 H1. I am lucky to have him helping me tune my 1975 Tracy Body H1 last week. Here is a recent link to my 4 Kawi H's all running together: ruclips.net/video/mnnS6m_1EYo/видео.html

Fran Golden of the Kawasaki Triples Club suggested the H1C existed as a way for Kawasaki to use up the earlier parts. Guess we’ll never know for sure?

Seagal Is lying Sylvester Stalone tells What Really Happened in 1997.

this never gets old!

According to Sly Seagal was the one who ran from Van Damme.

LoL… yep I too noticed the exhaust muffler’s had magically transformed 😂

proper way to ride that bike.

0:56 the chickens lol

You guys really lived life!

I like to see this cycle. 1971 H1 machIII. And all comments about the history of this fantastic cycle. I wish I come back to this.age when the life was in front of you. Billy

I was just looking Greg up to keep him updated on stuff; what a sad surprise. Last time I spoke to him must have been right before he passed. We worked together at Eagle Mountain and took the PC832 Arrest and Firearms Course together. I miss his laugh and odd sense of humor. When I left for corrections in Ohio and he went to Taft FCI we kept in contact sporadically from 2000-2015. Sadly, it was mostly him initiating contact. I will miss his dry sense of humor and spider hunting with him. He was pure good!

Bei ricordi, moto di grido all'epoca chi l'aveva si faceva notare . Era il periodo delle ducati scrambler poi l'avvento delle Kavasaki e Honda fecero impazzire gli appassionati. Da notare che non c'erano restrizioni di alcuni generie.ERA COSÌ E BASTA.!!!

Incredible ✌️☮️👍

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Hi Louis, how old were you at this time? Fabulous!!!

Now I ride a 2022 Honda 450 RL was a time I swore I would never own a thumper, but they don't thump anymore they rock

Dang I went to school with Dave Back than he rode a slow 72 500 and I rode the 69, I ended up trading it for a 72 750 triple,

Loved this. I owned two H2's (72 & 73 models) back in the day. I still miss the sounds & smells to this day . . .

Back in 71 I left work (in a gas station) one night at closing on my 71 H1, Wheelied through the stoplight (red) next to the station only to find I had done so right in front of a Memphis police car! The following 30 minutes were very intense as I pushed my H1 to it limits avoiding numerous squad cars. at one point I crested a hill and jumped it, when my tires hit the pavement coming down it sounded like the tires of a jet screeching on touchdown (I'll never forget that). I didn't get caught, and I tore 5 spokes out of the rear wheel that night. I traded the 71 in for a 72 H1b the next week. A lot of memories from those early days on Kawasaki triples.

ahhh the smell of Two Stroke in the morning. Bet the mosquitos where far and few between after the smogging ;)

My buddy Kauz used to race a blue '72 H2 in AFM events at Sears Point, and finished 7th in the 1978 AMA Superbike race at Sears...yes, a two-stroke was legal back then.

Hi Louis, I've added this to our Facebook page. Regards, Mark facebook.com/Classic-Japanese-Motorcycle-Group-Christchurch-New-Zealand-823558951125081

Great bike but please wear correct gear I know from experience how much it hurts when you come off a bike at any speed without gloves or jacket etc the tarmac is like sandpaper on your skin it isn't worth it believe me I was 6 weeks in hospital.

That video is sick. I used to ride like that. I love it.

事故って死ね♪

Flip flops. Duh 🙄

In Your Dream mister steven slowle segal

I saw a H2 rebuild and the crank did not have full round webs. ?

Going to be super sweet man!

Beautiful man, I'm working on my 72 Esprit as well

superb days...

Let The Good Times Roll!