Just a short introduction to my new site, where I hope to give regular updates on what is happening in the UK triples world.
As a teenager, I loved the sounds, smells and looks of the triples and in 1981 acquired a Candy Orient Blue KH250 B2 just like this one (photo taken from the Kawasaki brochure of the time).
It wasn’t long before I started modifying it. We had a brilliant local breaker in Blackpool (where are they all now?) who used to get a steady stream of crashed, burned and stolen/recovered KH’s for spares and I picked up an FLF fibreglass tank/seat unit and full fairing for a few quid.
I got fed up with the full race fairing very quickly as it was one piece and it was a 30 minute job to take it off to change a spark plug, which you had to do fairly regularly when it rained!
So next came a Rickman half-fairing which was much more practical and I think suited the little KH very well. I also fitted some ARE alloy wheels later from (you guessed it) the same breakers yard and I kept the bike running for 14 years until, in a moment of madness, I sold it to fund a GPZ600R.
Last spotted in Cromer, Norfolk, it hasn’t been taxed since September 1995, so it is probably languishing in a shed somewhere. If anyone knows the whereabouts of CFR 347S now, I would love to hear from you!
