FNG checking in, any TX750 riders here?

[concours]

Hello! Currently sorting a '74 Commando, 12K miles, pretty straight and clean. Rode my TX750 yesterday for a 100 trip, seems I remember a significant TX750 following in Oz.. (not many here in the states )

[Pussy]

I haven't seen a running TX750 for many years.
They wouldn't have been TOO bad if the omni-phase balancer didn't turn in to an out-of-phase balancer. The balancer drive was a bit weak in them. They were actually quite a nice bike to ride when they were new.

[Brian d marge]

I gave my Dad a tx 650 and am just about to wire it up , its certainly not original but its all there !

Stephen

[Grumph]

Got told a good TX750 story back in the day....by a Kiwi who was there.

The launch in Aussie was shortly before the 6 hour and yamaha supported quite a number of them to try and gain some publicity for the new model...several dealer supported teams with big name riders.
Anyway, they dropped like flies....except for one low budget privateer team which was the only TX finisher...

The bike was bought out of the finishers park by Yamahe factory reps who were keen to pull it down to find out why it was the only one to stay together...

The owners celebrated quietly in the bar afterwards and admitted on being asked that their plan all along was to finish....and they'd never taken it over 5000 rpm all race....

[nudemetalz]

Awesome story, Grumph.

I think they're actually a nice looking bike. Better looking than the XS-750/850 triples that replaced them.

A friend of mine had a TX-500 (equally hand-grenade-ish). When I rode it I was nervous about being "the one that broke it" so I was very careful with the engine.....

[Botany Honda]

I rode one quite a lot back in the day, slow compared to my Z1 but smooth and gave little trouble, the owner was a gentle rider.

Very smooth, nice engine note, handled well ( lack of pwer will help there) looked great, only let him down once, contact breaker wires chaffed through on the guard that protected them from the chain ( all behind the cylinder block on an auxillary shaft, lucky me had to fix it on the side of the road)

I would like to own one now

[awa355]

I bought one brand new in January 1972. Cost me $1895. Doug Johnson missed a $100 of the retail price. Dougy ( Putaruru), was a sub agent for Whites Yamaha. They were pissed off, as Doug had made the same mistake with the XS2 I traded in on the TX. I paid $1672 for the 650, should've been $1772.

Was a 19yr old, I ran that bike in as per the book. Nothing over 60mph for the first 600miles. When I traded the bike in after 13,000 miles, I had not had an ounce of trouble. I had heard of others having oil coolers etc fitted but my bike never gave a problem so I never did any recall modifications. For its time, the TX was super smooth after the XS2. I can remember wishing it didn't whirr as much as it did.

The torgue from low down was fantastic. I would ride over the Kaimais from the mount, and slow down on the Tga side hopeing a Valiant, Falcon or something similar would get ahead of me on the crawler lanes so I could have a blast going past them.

The memory of smoothness and sensational pulling grunt in top gear was what ingrained my love of motorcycling.

Probably, if I rode that same bike today, I would be disappointed in it, compared to what bikes are like today.

The TX750 gets absolutely rubbished by "experts" in the industry today. I wonder how many of them have ever seen one, let alone ridden/owned one.

I know a lot of owners did have problems, and they weren't good bikes overall. Mine was a goody, I loved it and the memory of that bike still keeps me rideing today.

[Paul in NZ]

I remember the chopper magazines having TX750 engines (not labelled as Yamaha) for sale for yonks after they were not available from the factory as a whole bike. I guess they made a lot of powerplants before they went oh oh…

I don’t think there were many takers!

Everyone drops a clanger once in a while….

[Zedder]

The 1974 model was fine, I bought one in 1985 after having owned an RD350.