question for old guys. what's the fastest scariest bike you ever had? mine was a built '74 Kawasaki Z1 900.?

Yeah, those 750 kow's with the three cylinder 2 strokes were crazy fast especially with the port and polish and expansion chamber.

About the speed wobbles, a friend had one of those z1 that did the same thing at the same speed. He got scared and bailed. Believe it or not he he lived with minor road rash. Lucky!

Mine was a 1973 ( I think ) Kawasaki 750 (3 cyl.) .I was the year they de-tuned it trying to tame it down some. Before that it had a high power band and would stand up on the rear wheel at red lights if you were not careful. Stretching the power band made it a lot easier to control . Fastest I ever took it was 130 mph on a long open stretch. It was stock and never had any wobbles at high speed . Would eat Z1's for breakfast on tight winding roads.

Man that z1 900 was an awesome bike in it's day, still is. I rode one back in the '70's and fell in love with it. I dreamed of getting one but never did. I remember riding it at 100 mph and it felt like I was going about 50. Super smooth ride.

Looks like we're all 750 triple past-owners! Mine was a '75, it wasn't quite as scary as the previous years cuz the 75 had a 2" longer swingarm. But it was scary enough! I had FBG expansion chambers on mine and flipped front brake, had the rims rechromed and stainless spokes installed. Good starter. I think the previous guy had clutch issues, it never slipped on mine, but then again the 75 might have had a different clutch setup somehow. I put a fork stay on it too, a old Kawi tech told me I should do that. If the steering damper was working good it wouldn't wobble TOO badly.

Fastest top speed was a 102 inch injected Shovel.

Fastest acceleration was a 500 (modified to 650) pre-unit Triumph.

Scariest was a 650cc Ariel (twin not square four) chopper. (or does the Harley my Dad built in the 50s with flathead Ford count? That bike only ran 4 quarters before he junked it)

True nothing could touch the Kawi 2 cycle tripples, but I never had one.

Mine was a Honda 1983 V 65 magna 11 sec 1/4 mile 160 + top end and no wobble. Best bike I ever owned. Cruse all day and handled well.

mine was a '72 h-2 750 triple. this bike had expansion chambers racing heads, mikuni carbs, dual disc brakes, rear sets, perioni clip-ons, india gum rubber hand grips, air shocks, stock tank and seat and side covers. that triple made so much torge at 60mph in 5th under full thottle at 3000 rpm, the clutch would start slipping. at 9000 rpm it would do 180mph in theory. on the pipe...6000 to 7500 rpm it was too hot to handle. the aceleration was so fast that you could not predict the road ahead of you. it for track like laguna seca or sears point. see (little foss and big halsey). Most owners claimed that it acelerated so fast that your eyeballs would pop out of thier sockets.

I had a 1974 H2 750. Three cylinder, two stroke. It was quicker off the line than your 900 but got the wobblies at around 110.

When I was 16 That was my first bike and the fastest.I sold it and got a 82 cb750f and it was a slug compared to the Z1.

I must be older than the other answerer's ha ha because mine was a hopped up 750 Norton. It would pull wheelies at high speed even when you did not want it to do so.

Scary but lots of fun anyway.