The Yamaha GL750 4 cylinder 2 stroke prototype which was displayed on the Tokyo Motorshow in November 1972 was the ultimate bike...........

Sadly it never reached the production stage. I remember that Yamaha dealers in Germany and France even 15 years later talked with passion about this bike.

Mr. J.C. Olivier from Sonauto (now Yamaha Motor France) managed to get the bike once for the Paris's Show. That was the only time it appeared outside Japan.

I remember that it arrived in the Yamaha Amsterdam workshop and I crawled around it on my knees for more than one hour !!!!

Yamaha GL750, 1972

The engine was already more or less prototype for the TZ700 for 1973, the cycle was similar to the RZ201 and TX750. The two-stroke injection system was also a prototype item for snowmobiles....!