written by Laverdabru1116 on 16/05/2015
Way back, a friend bought a brand new '78 KH250. It was amazing, & so different to the 2 & 4 stroke twins in the 250 class. So when I had the chance to buy a cosmetically challenged but mechanically sound model for £250 (this was before triple prices went stratospheric) I jumped at it. Not my wisest decision. Maybe it would have been alright as a Sunday toy, but I was using it as a commuter.
Mechanically, it was fine, apart from great thirst & fouling plugs in town, electrically a nightmare. The 3 sets of points needed adjusting once a fortnight, it didn't like wet weather, running on anything from 1 to 3 pots, no matter how much you dosed it with WD40. And it ate sparkplugs.
That's not to say it was all bad, had some great sunny early morning blasts with a friend on his H1 triple, but as an everyday bike it failed miserably. Ended up selling it as a non runner ('leccy gremlins again) for what I'd paid for it, with no regrets.