This is the European TX750 1973 brochure, the model with twin disc brakes.

Finally I have found the very rare HL500 brochure, just a few were printed as we made only 500 of these fantastic bikes. You can click both the pictures, I do hope you can read the specifications!

In my view one of the nicest motorcycles Yamaha ever made, the YL-1. The relatively long stroke (bore 38 x stroke 43) motor was (and is) very quiet and spins like an electric motor.

When, in May 1960 the first Yamaha's arrived in Europe, the humble YD-2, in the port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, the Importer, Messrs "Het Motorpaleis" (The Motorpalace) needed to make the very first "European" brochure.

From the Peter Abelmann collection this lovely 1962 full line-up catalogue

A beautiful early Japanese brochure from the Yamaha YDS2, collection Peter Abelmann, Germany

As many of you (especially the Dutch fans!) do know, I was quite involved in the marketing of the famous FS1 moped in the early seventies in Europe.

In this new series I will put some of my very old Yamaha Brochures.