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Description

We offer one of the most beautiful motorcycles of the 70s.

Kawasaki Mach III H1A 500 series 2, with first registration plates Monza Brianza, only 3 owners from new. Year of registration February 1971. Registered in the FIM national register.

Performed conservative restoration to say the least meticulous. In 2014, in fact, many important works were carried out on the mechanics.
- engine rebuild with replacement of pistons and consumables
- front and rear braking system rebuild with replacement of brake shoes and brake linings
- internal treatment of the tank (tankerization)
- Paint treatment of tank and side panels

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Model history and curiosity

The Kawasaki 500 H1, also commercially called Kawasaki 500 Mach III, is a motorcycle model produced by the Japanese manufacturer Kawasaki Heavy Industries Motorcycle & Engine, in eight successive series, from 1969 to 1977.

The power and torque values ​​and the performance declared by the manufacturer, truly remarkable for the time, contrast visually with the slenderness of the telehydraulic fork and the small diameter of the brakes.

The engine, of rather simple conception, is instead particularly robust, equipped with a composite primary shaft, rotating on 6 main bearings and designed to withstand the excessive driving torque.

The only structural weakness of the engine is represented by a tendency for the central piston to seize, after prolonged use in non-optimal ventilation conditions.

These characteristics meant that it was nicknamed "Flying Coffin", however, the "H1" achieved enormous sales success both in the United States and in Europe, which demonstrated the validity of the strategy devised by commercial experts. In Italy, 300 units were imported, starting from the spring of 1969, initially put on sale at a price of 870,000 lire, then increased to 990,000 lire, during the summer.

The 2nd series "H1A" of 1970, condensed all the small improvements made to the model during the production of the first 20,000 units, limiting the changes to the new tank without recesses for the knees and to different colors and graphics of the bodywork, and was put on sale at 880,000 lire.

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