This Kawasaki Bighorn was called "The Toad" 

Fotos Humor y de la Historia de Kawasaki Dirt Bike, el sapo. Se trataba de un 350 Gran Cuerno, Bighorn.

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   C. Jeff Dyrek, Webmaster working on his Kawasaki Big Horn Dirt Bike.
   The Toad was a 350 Bighorn which I bought as a spare dirt bike.
  This bike had a rotary disc valve intake system and it was quite powerful.  

  This Kawasaki Dirt Bike was a 350 Big Horn that we called the Toad.  My friends gave it the Nickname and it was the TOAD.    I Worked on the Toad and got it running pretty well.  It handled like a lumber wagon, however.

   Another Picture of the Kawasaki, Toad, Dirt bike 
   One of the biggest problems with the handling, was that I was reading about all
  of the new bikes with a Leading Axle.  This made the new bikes handle so much better. 
  On the Toad, the front forks were designed to where you can adjust the axle so that it 
  was leading, Lagging, or neutral with the centerline of the forks. 
  The big thing about the new bikes is that the triple tree was totally different. 
  Actually the leading axle wasn't the real advantage, but the leading axle allowed 
  the front forks to have a longer travel without making the bike higher off of the ground. 
  When I put the Toad's axle in the leading axle position, it lengthened the wheelbase 
  and also made the axle swing a long way from left to right as the steering was turned. 

  The Kawasaki Stencil on the Back of the Toad's Seat
  The reason that we called it the toad, was because of the obvious color and the name
  "Toad" was just a joke that stuck.  The bike handled so bad that my TM-125 would
  Tear up the bike on the track, but the toad made some fantastic slides and would
  do some impressive wheelies, so it looked good, even though that it was way in the back. 

   A Real Toad Pilot, Look out Your Nation is Secure. 
  This isn't a picture of my friend, Dave, but my friend, Dave, finally bought the Toad 
  My paint job was just a quickie, so Dave repainted it and spent hours and hours
  hand rubbing  the finish until it shined like a mirror.   He used Krylon paint instead
  of the Lubritec paint because because I told him how shiny it came out
  and that the paint worked fantastic. 

  The first day that Dave took the bike for a ride, everyone went out to his house
  to watch the event.    Actually the bike was absolutely beautiful when he got done. 
The gas tank caps seal didn't seal so good so it leaked a little gas onto the paint finish. 
  Dave took off through the field, driving parallel to the street.
  When Dave took off, the bike took of very quickly as he ran through the gears. 
  There was a huge cloud of dust flying up in the air follow him all the way. 
  When Dave came back, it was the same way, dust flew up in huge clouds. 
  Finally Dave made it back to us and stopped the bike.  Everyone's eyes instantly 
  turned to the paint job.  The gas ran out of the leaky gas cap seal and ran down the
  tank eating the paint right off.  It was a super mess.  The clear paint, over the lime green,
  melted instantly as the gas hit the Krylon paint and the dust mixed and stuck to the
  paint making a muddy mess. 

  To this day, I don't remember what happened to the Toad after that.  I don't
  remember Dave ever driving it again.

  I bought the bike from a guy named Scott B. Ruff, who gave me a pretty good deal, and
  it came with an extra cylinder that was really ported to the max and a head that was
  milled to the max.  We never put the extra cylinder on the bike, so I never got to
  feel what the bike could really do.  But, that's the story of the Kawasaki Bighorn, "The Toad". 

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