Sir Al wins the chocolate fish + What Could have Been!

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Yamahas take on a four cylinder two stroke 750

From Return to Hunterville

Good old Suzuki actually put one into production!

Alan correctly guessed the bike as the prototype sucessor to the H2 built in 1971. It was to be a square four 750 but got canned for all sorts of reasons.Some believed it was because the test rider was killed on it, (apparently this is bad luck in Japan!) whilst others have suggested the new emissions laws saw it stopped. What a huge shame though. What hoot it would have been blue hazing the countryside on one of these. Yamahas prototype is the most widely known one and many thought this was a photo of it but at least good old Suzuki followed through with their belief in large water cooled two stokes, (and rotors). Interesting to note that Neville Doyle was given some fours to play around with by Kawasaki.

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"The Trapezoid 750/4 photos and part of the article were from a story Brian Cowan did for REVS with pix from Greg McBean.
"I got the 'scoop' because I asked Neville the right question.
"British MCN had speculated on it - saying it was a square four.
"So I asked Neville, was Kawasaki developing a 750 square four?
"He said 'no'.
"So Cowan and I pondered this for a while, and next time I called Neville, I asked: "is Kawasaki developing a 750cc two-stroke four cylinder race bike
of ANY engine configuration.
"He paused, then said 'yes'.
"We talked some more then he offered us the exclusive, if we would send someone to Melbourne.
"So I sent BC and Greg and voila...
"It was fitted into a KR750 chassis and they were trying to develop that at the same time Greg was racing the KR250 & KR350 in 1978. They also had the KR750/3 for Internationals and in between all that Neville was trying to get the 750 4 sorted.
"I understand they had some vibration issues that caused some problems."