It was (and is) a very beautiful motorcycle.(you can click for the TX, to exit, go to "vorige"-"previous" <<<< (upper left in your browser)

Even today, 35 years later, nobody can deny that the TX750 was styled like a motorcycle should be. Everything was in proportion, in harmony. This was accentuated with the nice “candy” colours of the day. And that is probably also one of the reasons that the TX750 still has so many fans around the world, even though its life-span was rather short.

First Impressions

The first 2 machines arrived in Europe in October 1972, these were the test bikes for Yamaha Motor N.V. in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. With the bikes came the Project Engineers, Messrs. Sakuma and Sato. They were accompanied by a testrider, who’s name I have forgotten.

After setting-up the machines we rode them to Germany, to the Office of Mitsui Maschinen GmbH, near Dusseldorf, the Yamaha Distributor. Here we had the first “World” Journalist test.

“World” in 1972 was simply Mr. Ernst Leverkus (or “Klacks” as his nickname was), the Editor of “Das Motorrad”, at that time I dare say, the most professional and influential motorcycle magazine in Europe. (Not Italy, but Italy had an import restriction on Japanese Motorcycles, so was not important then) When ”Klacks” said “okay” to a bike, it was good for the Industry ! In my old photo report (to exit, go to "vorige"-"previous" <<<< upper left in your browser), on this event you can see what and how it happened.