DonOR wrote: With that, there will be freedom from hunger and poverty, and a lasting world peace" Though he failed to mention the decline of the printed page, and the plethora of online porno, I think his promise seems to have fallen a bit short. But hey, lets give it another 100 years or so.

So what are you saying, that we DON'T have worldwide peace, and we still have hunger and poverty?

I thought...

...never mind; at least we've fixed the global warming thing.

I once ran a Commando and a H1 at the same time.
I still have a Commando, I do not own a H1.

rocker1 wrote:I once ran a Commando and a H1 at the same time.
I still have a Commando, I do not own a H1.

so that would mean the H1 "went" faster then...

Hi Iain

Yes went BANG! crank rebuild would have been more than the whole bike was worth.

Used to race my combat vs. my friend's '73 H2 750 along the access road to the GE plant in Selkirk NY off 9W. It was over a 1/4 mile straight and flat. Acceleration from standing start was pretty much neck and neck every time all the way to redline 7000 rpm and 110 mph. He would always miss a gear and lose. Never beat me. This went on almost a whole summer and we never ran afoul of the law. Maybe we were a little wilder compared to now but the new Superblends held up well and are still in the bike.

He later bought a Kawi Z1 and it evolved -- ending up about twice as long as a normal bike with wheelie bars and 3 bottle nitrous injection. I did the nitrous valve switching circuit and rigged up a big red light that went on at redline when it was time to shift and switch bottles. This was before it became the thing to do. He did win races with it. Gee it was fun back then!

I had a slightly modified H1; decked heads, ported cylinders, gutted mufflers, Koni shocks, K-81 skins and it was faster in a straight line than anything I came up against. However, one day, I tried to keep up with an old man on a 650 Bonneville on a tight twisty road and put the wallowing Kaw in the ditch as he disappeared into the distance. The evil bastard had a hinge in the middle and more motor than chassis. Sure was fun to screw the throttle on and fell the front wheel lift effortlessly as the motor came on the pipe, though.

It was spring and I was a senior in high school when I bought my 1971 Commando for $1364 out the door, on time; my dad co-signed. Another kid bought one of those black H-1s and he'd do wheelies up and down the street in front of school. I don't remember any races with that guy but I do remember, bitterly, my X-country coach who made fun of my Commando when I parked it on the center stand near the gym; he said it wasn't right - the "daylight" he could see between the rear wheel and the fender. I think the longish travel of the rear suspension of the Commando is one of its assets.

Hello Danno

When I rode the H1 home for the first time I took it along the twisty back roads instead of the direct route.
Coming quite quickly upon a slower car I dropped a gear and wound on, Up came the front and I went past the poor driver on the back wheel.
I remember looking down on him and he looking back with a look on his face that said " show off" little did he know it was quite unintentional.

My bike had been raced by Davick motique and had a box section swinginging arm and extra bracing on the frame at the pivot.