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Originally Posted by Fork Handles

Nice report Pen. I remember that 750 suzi well. A guy named Gregg Hansford rode one on the circuit here and won several championships on it. The Green Machine it was known as. In the eighties or nineties he switched to racing cars and got killed in a smash.

Which only goes to show,

Yea the GT750 or The Kettle as it was otherwise known as was pretty tame as standard but could be tuned into a real rip snorter. Suzuki made a racing bike based on it called the TR750 that was rode by the likes of Barry Sheene.

But I wonder if the bike the chap from down under rode was called The Green Machine if it was a Kawasaki being as green was their race colour back then. Kawasaki made a 750 air cooled two stroke triple called the H2, big brother to the H1 I posted a couple of pics of. They were often turned into race bikes but Kawasaki also made a full on race bike which was watercooled called the KR750.