This is it, exactly. A flipper looking for a windfall.

The seller is just trying to locally flip a California car. Then additionally, trying to bank a few extra bucks on the rarity and nostalgia. It might have worked a few years ago when people didn’t have jobs, or credit, and a nice rust-free car in a snow state would kind of be something. But not at that exchange rate,…

Hey! I AM a high school physics teacher! Oh waitaminit though...yeah, I have no personality. Carry on.

The Pinto was better in nearly every way, from power to durability and ease of maintenance. The fire risk was tiny, but it got blown so out of proportion that people still remembered it as being terrible/dangerous. 20+ years on, I remember them still wandering around in the early-mid 1990s in SoCal. One of my…

I was an A-7 crew chief with the 44550th and I think that “cloaking device” has been repainted. I seem to remember it had brighter colors and a radiation warning sticker on it. But yeah, fuel truck drivers probably got the brunt of our false indignation when they got in the area. “See that thing hanging under the…

Hah! Going through them was hilarious. People take tires very personally.

No vehicle from the 70's will compare with vehicles from 40 years later. Especially a design that was a simple (crude) as this one was. That said, they were fast for the time, exciting still, and could be ridden pretty quickly despite the hinged frame, weak brakes, bouncy suspension, and bias-ply tires. I've owned…

You’ve never experienced a “2 stroke kick” untilyou’ve ridden a Suzuki RG500 and felt the “kick” when the exhaust valves snap open around 6K then you realize that bitch is both spinning the rear tire while wheeling! I’ll never forget that fateful day after gently riding my RG500 for around 600 miles of careful break…

Two stroke streeters are badass. My first bike was a '74 Suzuki GT380; a 2-stroke triple like this Kawi. That thing sounded like a hive of pissed-off bees and would run with my pal's 750LTD all day long.

I'm a big fan of the 1970's Kawasaki's. The KZ's sounded like no other bike and I still love to hear them run, and they set the course for sport bikes of today so they should be respected for their lineage. But, $16K? CP all the way.

Unless this comes with 10k bucks stuffed under the seat it’s taking a ride to cracktown...

This bike is a set of expansion chamber pipes and a set of tuned carbs away from splattering it next owner all over the asphalt in a blaze of weedwacker smoke scented glory.

however, for $16k, I’m giving it a reluctant CP. About 6k too high for me.

as someone who restores very similar bikes (cb’s and whatnot) I have to say: no fuckin way man. for the price you could put together 5 or 6 cb’s with modern fork swaps and all the bells and whistles and not be afraid to wreck a piece of history while you ride the snot out of it. CP.

It’s rare. It’s in good shape. It’s a bad-handling peaky-powerband under-braked death machine.

Well so what? a Gsxr 600 of 1999 will run rings around it and cost you a pizza and a beer. The RD350 was a great bike but no way as significant as this, or its mum the K500 titan.

Now if it were an H2 filled by the simple letter “R” well then we’d have something there!

Nice bike, histrorically significant, sounds great, stinks worse than a McDonald kitchen.

Kawi triples were notorious for their bad handling traits and explosive power bands. This is a rare relic of a bygone era but, total Crack Pipe....of course it’s in San Francisco area where values are totally skewed on many things in the marketplace including company valuations.

I can’t think of the last time I wanted to shout crack pipe. And heroin needle. And rolled up blunt. At the same time. Because the ‘seller’ is clearly hallucinating with that asking price. These can be had for half (or less) on local craigslists, or moto forums.

Lovely bike, but for that money, I’d look for an rz500, gamma or even a couple of rz350's