INSANE 2 STROKES BREAK WORLD RECORD!
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- Watch these amazing 2 stroke drag bikes make history as we see something we have never seen before when the all-motor Kawasaki H2 750 of Bill Baxter and Alex “HRP” Hughes take on the wild nitrous oxide two stroke Kawasaki H2 750 of Jim Chongris. Enjoy the sweet two stroke motorcycle racing sound as these competitions look to go for the 7.77 world record held by the nitrous 2 stroke of Brian Pretzel. Smell the premix, enjoy and share this with any friend who loves fast motorcycles or wild two strokes. If you ever owned a two stroke, share a story down below.
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Rode Kawasaki H2s many years ago. Happy to still be alive! LOL Those things tried to kill me many times!
I remember when I was in high school back around 73 and everybody had those 3 cylinder Kawasaki 2 stroke 500 & 750 bikes.....They were cool and fast....Everybody wanted one including me.
Likethosrkaws
In 73 750s were doing high 11s
Same here, same years. Good times without the entire planet watch & listening to ya just so people can complain....
This makes me miss my kawasaki 750. Ill never forget that ride when it came out in 72
My friend had a 72 H-2 I had a 71 H-1 wish I had it too!
Me 2!
Jack 👍 , I know how the slider clutches work , but don't understand how they are bringing the rpms up while staging ( higher than the clutch setting ) and releasing . I know it is some type of 2 step , but would like to know how they are doing that . Thanks in Advance 👍
@strangeuniverse1 from my memory , the H-2 came out earlier than the Z-1 and was always a tenth or 2 quicker in magazine tests . Hard to remember those 2 being Beasts compared to the bikes of today 🙂 .
@strangeuniverse1 - I tried dragging an H2 750 -
with chambers and a mild port job -
I couldn't keep the front wheel off the ground
so I would have to throttle off and other bikes would beat me.
It needed a foot longer swing arm.
I could power wheelie at 150 km/hr in 3rd gear.
When Smokey 2-strokes sing, i hear violins.
When Smokey 2-strokes sing, i forget everything!
Been stroked bye two stoke!
I raced motocross in the early 70's! I LOVE TWO STROKES!
I raced in San Diego county too. Awesome memories!
From racing the tt500s back in the day, and now watching the Motocross riders today I never dreamed I would see people do things like that on a bike. It just blows my mind when I see these competition stunt riders and things flipping bikes and all of the tricks they can do , if a person pulled that off back into 70s and 80s they would have thought that you was a demon or something,
My whole teenage years were nothing but two strokes W.F.O., OH YEAH BABY!!!
ya,, the old triple death machines ,, love them
The Original H2 ! they are beasts !
I forget who said "the best way to make a small fortune in racing is to start with a big one."
It's from NASCAR, I know that much. Was probably one of the old timers like Richard Petty or Junior Johnson.
Laughed my butt off....so true.
@@SternLX You are correct it is from NASCAR. I looked it up and there are several who are credited for having said it. Junior Johnson, Darrell Waltrip and Felix Sabates to name a few.
Any real man that has any fever learns that about his hobby/insanity...
I loved my H2. Blown out with Wisco pistons and Barnett clutch and set back shifter. 9.8 street legal in the 1980s.
I still have my 1982 yz 490...
That 490j ain't no joke !!!!
Squeeze bang blow, that’s the way a 2 stroke goes.
Music to my ears
@@GhostOfDamned and a smell in the air!
Lived in Southern California in the 70's and bought a 1974 Kawasaki H-1 500, that had a 3 year old expired Cali plate on it, from my cousin. He did not have a title for it, so consequently I never registered it. I rode that bike daily to work and raced it both on the street and the strip at every single opportunity that came my way. It had Denco killer stingers on it with no muffler cans, so it was ear splitting loud. I moved to El Paso, Texas with the H-1 on the rear bumper of my car and continued to use it as almost a daily driver for another couple of years. Sadly the time came for me to part with it, mainly due to the fact that I could not register it. So, I talked with some of my friends in El Paso about selling it in Mexico, where no paperwork was needed. The only problem with this plan was that it was against Mexican Federal Law, at that time, for Americans to sell vehicles in Mexico. But, none the less, I found a dealership in Juarez, MX, which is right across the border from El Paso, that was willing to take a look at it. I had my father follow me in his car and we crossed the bridge over the Rio Grande into Mexico. We drove to the lot and pulled in, where the owner saw us and came out of his office to invite us in. My father and I walked into the office and there sat a Juarez policeman in uniform! Dad and I looked at each other like, oh boy here we go, but it turned out the policeman was just a friend of the car lot owner and was just visiting and could have cared less about what we were up too. Then the owner told me he would give me $800 cash for the bike, which was considerably more than I could have got for it at home, with the only problem being that he did not have the cash at his lot and that we needed to take a drive to his home to get it. That was also a little concerning since we had just met him but it all turned out just fine and we went home $800 richer. About two weeks later I received a phone call from a guy who told me that he had purchased the H-1 in Juarez and they had given him my phone number, from the paperwork we had to fill out, and that I had the title for the bike and could hook him up with it! Unfortunately for him, I of course had no paperwork for the bike and told him straight up that is why I sold it in Mexico. Don't know if he ever worked anything out on the bike or not but the only thing that I do know is how very much I miss hitting the powerband on a three cylinder two stroke with loud ass expansion chambers on it!
the man is absolutely correct you are one of the best commentators I've ever heard as well thank you
🦂 7.85 "All Motor" 😢😢😢 this brought such a nostalgic yet happy tear to my eye !!! Thank you CycleDrag for posting this 💜❤💜 much love
I wish more people would race two strokes, like RD400’s and RZ350’s.
Kawasaki 750 triples.
kawasaki owned the 2 stroke era brother.
@@karlmorrison7933 I am assuming Yamaha out sold Kawasaki in the early years.. they had 50 cc 125 cc 250 cc 350 cc two strokes they sold millions of R-5's RD-350's RD-400's and they still sold the RZ-350 in USA after Kawasak was gone and the RZ-500 called the RD-500 in most Countries around the World .. in GP racing Yamaha and Suzuki Domintaed but Honda was in there for a while too ..
@@mikeskidmore6754 i should have specified myself sorry, i was 8 years old when the h-2 750 came out in 1972. my dad and 2 uncles bought the s-2 kawasaki 350s. i grew up in western pa and everybody was buying these 2 strokes, yamahas, suzukis, kawis, i dont remember honda making one but my school bus shed was the local hang out and let me say every time a local big mouth would start yappin his mouth my dad and uncles would shut it. no yamaha or suzuki EVER won a drag race against us. finally a big mouth who had money bought a 1972 H2 750 and shut everybodys mouth.
@@karlmorrison7933 Honda I am talking 500 CC Grand Prix racers 150 HP ..
1984 through 2002 .. Yamaha had the TZ-750 and TZ-500
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Cool,excellent job interviewing! Love the bike at 12:45, kick started it first try and puts it in gear with his hand that's wild
my 1974 S3-400 Mach ll It was a bad ass Bike no one could keep up with it in my little town loved that bike
2stoke power all the way love my 2stokes 👍👍
I never thought there'll be two stroke drag race, maaan this place is like 2-stroke heaven
Loved my first bike out of high school. Yamaha rc 350 2-stroke. Rode the hell out of it and then made it a screamer after graduating from American Motorcycle Institute. Love and miss the 2-strokes!
I'm living in the UK & watching all your uploads all the time, awesome. Stay safe everyone.. Gazza
I love two strokes. More smiles per mile!!!
I had a 1974 kawi 250 twin street bike with chambers and carb work ran strong and loved that crackle sound .
Love the 2 smokes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!............more, more, more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Had a 71 H-1 re did it every nut & bolt painted everything couple of engine mods expansion chambers ran it on a track day in 1978 at Bridgehampton nothing more fun those were the days! These videos bring back some memories thanks for this!
Awesome channel bro. You do a great job!
Thank you for this awesome content
" Kick Start my Heart !!! "
BIll Baxter is a Sportsman. He was happy to see his main competitor, Chongris, make history before his eyes. Good bunch of guys.
I have three, 2 stroke dirtbikes. I need one of these H2s!!! So cool!
I had a Denco 792 H2 street bike.
2stroke madness danm i love it!!!
I had an H2 back in the early 90s
As a teen I found my neighbor had a new Kawasaki 500 street bike, which was one of the fastest bikes at the time. We both raced motocross (he on a CZ 250 and I on a Suzuki TM-250), and he let me "borrow" the Kawasaki one night (though I didn't even have a driver's license yet). It was like riding lightning - too fast on the throttle and the front wheel would come up quickly. An amazing bike, and he only sold it to buy the new 750. That blue-striped Kawasaki drag bike reminded me of his 500 as it had the same color scheme.
Lived in South Lake Tahoe in 1975. My roommate had a blue H2 750. I had a RD350. Took them both to Hot Bike Engineering in Fremont, CA. They competed with Denco back then. Raced both bikes at Fremont Drag strip. I remember Terry Vance and Byron Hines being there with one of the first Suzuki drag bikes. At least I think it was. Looked like one of the first Pro Stock motorcycles. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe bike was there as well. Hot Bike's rider rode my friends H2. Did low 10 quarter mile with no wheelie bar. I forget what times I was doing on my RD. Low 13's maybe. The good ole days.
Love the sounds
I bought a new Kawasaki 500 in 1971, out if 19 motorcycles I've owned, it is in my top 5!!!!
Nothing is better at converting fuel into horsepower than a 2-stroke engine. They’re not especially clean, but they are simple, lightweight, and surprisingly reliable. I’ve always had a love of everything 2-stroke. I will miss 2-strokes once the environmental enforcers eventually put an end to them.
Started riding British 2-strokes here in Australia as a kid in 1963, by 1971 about a dozen had passed through my hands , including Sun, James, Dot, Francis-Barnett, Cotton, and BSA as well as a a Kawasaki A7 Avenger, but in 1971 I bought a new Mach III A1, and eventually had five Mach III's in my shed! I sold the last of them last year -- time to let someone else enjoy its madness since I'm now in my 70's; and feel it's safer to stick to my Kawasaki Vulcan cruiser now!
Lucky to have owned a 72 & 74 H2 ! Love the popcorn poppers👍⚡😎
My first bike ever when I was in high school was a 73 Yamaha DT250. Taught myself how to work on it and loved riding it.
I ran a slightly modified RD400 that was a solid 12 second performer - I always wondered what it would do on nitrous.
Very good, big like had a h2 back in the day
I had a 1975 750 H2 and loved it.
love 2 strokes, had a 71 H1 and a 74 rd 350 so much fun back in the 70,s
I recently built a 66cc motorized bicycle and I caught the 2 stroke fever. Though I will never get to ride with the big dawgs with them insane H2 triples, I will enjoy my little creation.
Here come the awkwardly close camera encounters
I bought a new H-1 in '74,crazy fun light and fast bike! Girls loved it too! It was beautiful! After that was a new KZ900,a fun more civil yet fast bike too. Since then I've had many KZ's,H-2's S-3's and modern bikes too! They're all fun!
love the sound thy make
Who doesn't miss that sound & smell! 😎🤘
I added Kawasaki's dual disc brake kit to my 1973 H2, and installed the longer swing arm from a ('75?) H2. With a 4:00-18 soft tread Dunlop TT-100 on the rear, it would slide over manhole covers when leaned over on corners. It was very stable with the longer swingarm.
Sadly, at 2 AM, in 1977, I was hit from behind while entering a freeway, by a drunk driving a Corvette. All witneses reported the 'Vette weaving through traffic at 100 mph. I survived, and the crash wrecked bike is in my man-cave.
Wow 🤪😃 , The sound 👍. Brought back so many memories, of my younger years. Running RD 125 lC - 250s and a 305 LC . The sound The smell, & that kick in the pants 🤪. When you're in the band 🏍🏍, weeeeeeeeeee 😃😃😃
when you are the band
Great Video Thanks, What will you do with the s2 350 Drag?? is there a 350 class ?
Had a RD 350
yeah, I love 2 bangers. can't you smell the Blendz All?
Got to ride a H1 back in the 70s a few times and was told it had been hop up as the owner was in the service, I don't know if that's true but that three cylinder was a beast when it came to power, never had the nerves to open it up , just rode it normal as the owner let me take it out lots of times.
Can not even wonder what it could do, to me 1 and 2 gear was so touchy in bring up the front wheel and one day in 4 gear i slower power it up not fast not trying to let it run and the dam thing stood right up and i my heart skip a beat as i was rolling off the power as when the front wheel came off the road, had to be doing 55 mph. I thank that was the last time i took it out.
Those bikes hear must be real wicket machines
Thanks for posting never knew they had two cycle racing like this
SOOOWEEEET!!!!!! lovecthem expansion chambers'!!. lol water buffalos !!!!! Fast with Gast'!!!
I had a 72 and 73 350 back in 1981. Downright scary! I was 4' 11" and weighed 98 pounds! When it hit six grand it was like hitting a nitrous switch! Bring it to 9500 and shift as fast as you can! Had to ride the clutch off the line and it was everything I could do to get my feet up to the pegs in time for second gear! I learned a very important lesson one day. Never try to do a second burnout! I ran behind it as long as I could. I finally let go of the handle bars and watched it scuff the tail light twice and then fall to the right. Took out the injection pump, throttle grip and the left rear turn signal. Fortunately, I had a parts bike in the basement! Sold it that weekend. Went for the safer Suzuki GS 650 L with Vetter fairing, trunk, highway pegs, crash bar and throttle lock. Keeps you from racing... and alive!!
You are the best Jack
awesome start up noise!!
Nice👌
Are you telling me I coulda slapped together six of the 1980 can-am 125 I had and it woulda been this much fun? Damn!
Still miss my H-1's, they made music not noise! Wheelie monsters 4 sure.
My wife loves 2 strokes! Usually, the last 2 are her favorites! 😂. But seriously, I acquired and rode a 1976 Suzuki 750 triple around 1997-99. Commonly known as a Water Buffalo due to the liquid cooling. Very cool ole bike! Even with the Vetter fairings and bags it was quite a ripper! I thought I was upgrading by getting a 82 KZ 650 but I was wrong! The suzi was quicker, faster, more comfortable and cornered way way better than the KZ. IMO. Keep up the good work!
powerful! braaappp!!!
I remember almost 30 years ago my father sponsored an RG500 Susi for the Manx gran prix (Isle of man). I rode it over the mountain when i was a young man, the power band was 1500 rpm and it was one of the hardest bikes i had ever ridden..... but wooo it was fun.
Ah the memories, I still have one H-2
Uber Cool......Worlds First Two Bike Two Stroke Seven Second Run....Totally Awesome 😎
Many Many Thanks too Alex,Bill and Jim S for such a great match-up Epic Race
Big Thanks too 2 the Legend Mr Paul Gast creator of super fast H2’s Respect Sir😉
And Big Thanks too 2 Jack and ALL the cycledrag.com team for bringing it do us
Hope someone can beat that 7.77 record and raise the bar some more....Good Luck All🙂
Idk why but I love the tire size they use for these. So square and narrow
Ah man I miss the sound and smell of a hopped up 2 stroke... Used to run a fully modified, stroked and bored, '86 Honda 250r in around Glamis... Never could have dreamed of 165+ mph though... Wicked!
I wrenched at a Kawasaki dealer in western New York in the late 70's/early 80's with H2 owner/racer Terry Gilliam. Met Paul Gast and Puppet a few times. I helped a bit with the H2 that Terry set some gas/altered (at the time) records with. I even rode it - once - in the parking lot, no power low but when came on the port and pipe it wanted to loop with the wheelie bars off. everyone found that very amusing...
Sick!
I see this is bringing out all of us older guys who rode these back in the seventies! lol Damn I wish I had kept some of mine! Great video! Puts a smile on yur face!
How do I get one of your stickers to promote your fantastic channel here in the UK?
I used to have a 1985 2 stroke CR500 dirt bike but never a 2 stroke triple Kawi?!?! When I was a kid a neighbor of ours in 1977 had a beautiful purple 2 stroke Kawasaki. I used to run to the window to see him ride out of the driveway. And of course hear it!
AWESOME
My brother owned a Suzuki GT380 when I was around 10 yrs old, he took me for a ride on it one day, hit 80 mph in a few seconds, scarred the sh*t out of me...he got into a bad wreck one day on Van Nuys Blvd when he was 16 and never rode again after that.
I lived on my two strokes in the 1980s. Me and my buds terrorized the San Fernando Valley on our RZs. Goin thru the Sherman way tunnel under van nuys runway.you shoulda heard that! ❤️ I've had them all, kawi triples, TZRs, RGVs, NSRs. The good old days
Dude was making his lunch!!!!!!!
I owned an H1 500 it was scary as hell in corners
I used to get my Klotz transfusion every spring.
I need to get myself a 2 stroke
*should
@@abdullahmualif4202 sure should brother 👍
I love my 2 strokes.my missus thinks I'm mad reving them up all the time
I tell her it gives me wood 🏁
Hell yeah MIX OIL 'N RIP SOIL!... or asphalt!
Sniff, sniff, Ahh the smell of 110 octane! Very distinctive smell from the pit area. Love it, Love it! And hows that f150, you lucky bugger, I'd like one with a fisher minute mount plow!
I'm so glad I had an H 2. But one like Baxter's with 172 HP would be really different.
and a lot of skill to go that fast and balls
I used to have a Yamaha RZ350 and it went like the clappers!
that 14 y.o. went 8.20 in the 1/4 mile? that's impressive
When I was 16 back in 1969 l had single cylinder maico 501 it was a lot of fun
Jack , @ 14:50 right lane had fire spitting on the intake side , would be very interesting to find out what was doing that ... Guessing a head gasket , but it went away and he ran a 7.89 🤔
Yamaha Banshee probably the most responsible for people's love of premix! Saw a handful of triples in some Banshees in the 90's at Glamis... Bad... to... the...bone...
Had a GT 550 with expansion chambers. I wish I never sold it
I’d love to see a Yamaha RZ500 set up for drag
Smoked a ZX14!! Incredible!!! Nothing like a triple 2 stroke!!!
Them 2 strokes faster than most 600cc bikes.
6ruh you didn’t see it lef that 6usa & that 14??!! & saying most 600 wth??
Bruh I've seen 600's gap busas and 1000's
@@brandonatkins9087 ?? Where when and 600's on nitrous with the 1000 & 1400's maybe but not stock 600's!
I never said not on nitrous. Just bolt ons and motor work done and the right rider. You think just because its a 1000 it's going to gap everyone. 😄 Silly keyboard warriors. I've seen Harley keep up with a 1000. Y'all obviously don't know to much about motor work.
Always wanted an original H2.
The Stock Kawasaki 750 CC Triple was not very fast. It was more of a Mid range RPM toquey bike.. These guys have done a lot of port work to make them so fast..
Stock not fast? It only held the 750 record for 25years. THATS FAST
Correct , they fell on their face about 8,000 .
@@RodgerMyers Thats why they made 74 HP at 6,800 RPM's correct ..? Sure expansion chanpers and some port work will bring them to life..
55 kW (74 hp) @ 6800 rpm
@@mikeskidmore6754 I was just guessing at the rpm where they fell on their face ... I could not remember . Had a few stock h-2 & h-1 with and without chambers... still fell on their face . Had a H-2 that I went 9.7 many years ago . It had a FBG engine , yet still didn't rev very high . Never knew what rpm it turned , just learned to shift before it nosed over . Skinny guy I bought it from went 9.4 . Read the post where the guy said H2s were record holders in et no way did H-2s keep the stock 750 record ( 12.2 ? ) for 25 years . Did a quick search and could not find out what a 85 750 GSXR went stock , but seen they had 25 more hp , a 6 speed tranny and had to be lighter ...
@@rubyr.4812 I'm not the person who posted that they were not that fast stock , but your post furthers that contention ... They ran 12.2 or 12.3 stock . The 900 Kawk was only a tenth quicker , but revved . The H2 did not rev very high . The original posters other post saying 74hp @ 6800 sounds right . I think you are taking the post incorrectly . Back then , they were fast as was the SOHC 750 Honda a couple years earlier .
I used to race TT at Elsinore raceway in the 70’s and when the old hiway 395 , you would turn onto. Dirt road , pass by the landfill aand then you could smell the “Blenzall“ the first Bean oil I used . You could smell it 1/2 mile before you get to the entry of the track.
Then came Yamalube “R”, . It smelled more like stinky petroleum instead of bean.
I would add toluene for a kick. . Forgot to clean out gas tank for two weeks and the fiberglass turned to jello on the bottom.
I love my 91 cr500 honda ice bike
I'm 57
I had a few 4 stroke 500 750 900
But 2 stroke shits on them all I'm hooked
I had an H2 . It was a tough to get the mix right. It changed its mind on what mix it liked a lot didn't corner too good but I liked that it was all up and took off like the millennium Falcon!
That’s funny because I wore down the rubber on my pegs. 72, H2 500
@@lowprofile2412 I had the 750. By todays standards it was a tank for a sport bike.lol!