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With the correct mods, it would outrun a 750 triple. The downside was that it couldn't corner worth a damn.

Heh, I've often toyed with the idea of putting that three-cylinder 2-stroke engine in a more modern chassis, just for kicks (and to put a finger in the EPA's eye). I rode an H1 some 20+ years ago, so I know exactly what you mean about the barely-there suspension and brakes. That front fork... ugh.

There was a neat trick I recall, something about a wiring connection that would kick the oil injection pump to full-volume, "limp-home" mode (my neighbors referred to it as the "mosquito fogger"). I can still smell the burning Castrol. :-)

I always ran under the theory that more oil than less was better. There were a lot of people running the injection pump as lean as possible to prevent fouling of those weird looking pinpoint electrode plugs. I always thought it better to foul plugs than burn bearings and scuff pistons, if you had a two stroke and didn't carry spare plugs and tools you soon learned to. If you had the one with the distributor, it was also wise to carry a spare coil for the reluctor. In fact, I think I still have both the A and B boxes for the ignition around here somewhere.

In my minds eye, I see the throttle cable going into the injector but I don't remember any electrical connection. One way to make the injector pump run full out was to pull the cable that went into the housing so it would open up the injector. Then again, for some reason, a lot of people removed the injector pump and mixed the gas and oil, I used to see this mostly on RD's. When they went to the three coil ignition, I think they changed the injector pump as well so it very well could have been electrically controlled.

Hell, I still carry a spare injection computer in one car and a complete distributor and computer in my older car.

Putting that engine on a shifter cart or a snowmobile, now that would be cool and give Christie Todd Whitman apoplexy.