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I discovered way back when I was a mid teen that it was a lot cheaper to go very fast on a motorcycle vs. a car. I bought a lightly used '72 Kawasaki 750 H2. Three cylinder, two stroke, also known as the world's fastest production motorcycle at that time. The summer of 1974 was spent at two different drag strips...one on Wed. Night and the other on Sat night. The bike was stock with the exception of a set of Wirges brand expansion chambers (full race exhaust) and a carb rejetting to richen it back up. I broke into the high 11 second times....11.89 in the 1/4 mile and low 6 seconds though the 1/8 mile at 95 mph. At the end of the 1/8th mile, the front wheel would pull up just enough to turn the timing light off with the rear tire....front was up in the air a bit. That was damn fast for a motorcycle back then....now days, not so much. Lots of trophies and some cash, and the most fun summer I ever had on two wheels