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Ollie's ODDJOBS

The Kawasaki H2 750 was a motorcycle as notoriously twitchy and unstable as a skinhead with a pocket full of Dexedrine and a bag full of glue. This notorious / legendary (delete as applicable) motorcycle is a machine about which the manufacturer's publicity declared, or possibly warned, warned: ‘It's so quick it demands the razor-sharp reactions of an experienced rider.’ Which most young buyers simply saw as a challenge.

This particular big Kawasaki triple is a motorcycle I've been admiring for many years. Officially,a motorcycle that doesn't exist.

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