TZ750 TWO-STROKE TUESDAY ; RARE 4 CYLINDER 750CC 2 STROKE FACTORY RACER 1 OF 100 PRODUCED!!
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I raced the TZ 750 in 1976-1980 AMA on Daytona, etc. My dad was my mechanic... most importantly, we still have the bike, a spare engine & frame...
wow - that must be worth a fortune?
Incredible ❤ Huge Respect for this Machine 💯
I still have my Kenny Roberts poster up with him doing a wheelie on his yellow and black bumblebee. TZ750 has been one of my dream bikes ever since. 👍🏻
Steve Baker was the man on this bike. He won the FIM750 world championship
I watched Kenny Roberts ( pole starting position) pull off to the side at (Sears Point) now Infineon Raceway...let first wave of 40...then 2nd wave of 40....then take off doing a wheely and waving to crowd...on lap #2 crossing the start/ finish line in lead... passing 79 riders under the 2 lap start of race. Amazing rider on an amazing bike....he rode a flat track version of this bike to win Indianapolis Mile...his words at the finish line interview was...They don't pay me enough to ride this thing....
It should be out lawd..which it was in a short time
Old monsters are monsters still.
This one takes me back to Brands Hatch in the seventies; thin tyres, thin frames, thin suspension, big power, brave men.
Yes. Yes indeed.
Hell yeh man, scary ass beast, Kenny Roberts even said so and he’s the F’n man
This is a part of World Motorcycle History Ken ! A true icon of the 2-stroke glory days.
The TZ Factory Racers sent chills up the competition's spines, as Bill would know.
He is a worthy person to be a keeper of this fantastic machine !
" Emotional" he says. I agree !
As a young man, I used to only see this machine in Yamaha brochures and Cycle World magazines.
Thanks !
Trinidad & Tobago.
West Indies.
but would you believe 200 hp ? no you would not ! they were more than 200 hp
@@donniebaker5984 No TZ750 ever made over 200hp
@@postulator890 I never said they did
The smile&joy on his face everytime he rides that bike is priceless✊
Just stunning. Back in the 80s I put a TZ350G on the road in UK, what a weapon that was, even had a kickstart. The smell of Castrol R .... happy days........TZ750 that is the dogs
Oh how i miss those days!! I grew up close to TT Assen (the Netherlands) .....
@@nohaste4me Yea I was an engineer so TZ350 G barrels, heads, pistons, rings, carbs, exhausts, gaskets all for £80 brand new! from a closing down sale in a bike shop. It was obvious, design your own water pump and radiator, take a YR5 engine and graft it all on, make your own mono shock swing arm fit discs, make a car electronic ignition work, buy TZ fiberglass body work from the local race track. Paint it yellow do Kenny Roberts block black stripes and you have yourself a nice little road bike cheaper than an LC350. Did about 4,000 miles on it and sold it at a profit........fun.
2-stroke smell, is something special. I only know it from mopeds and then the east block car named Trabant, that I saw around 1990/91 in the former east Germany.
One of thee sickest bikes of all time, a treat to see it ride👍🏻
I just sold my h2 750 and I regret it but at 82 yrs olď I am done.
Fantastic historic piece and certainly with the right owner. Just brilliant
Yess!!! What adrenaline dreams are made of!!!! I am so blessed that I actually saw 500CC Grand Prix races at Le Mans and Laguna Seca! At the start of a race it was truly spine tingling! The sound and knowing what it feels like to ride a 2 stroke road bike the exhilarating adrenaline rush when it comes on pipe into the powerband!!! Scary and exiting all at the same time! Lucky Billy! Good one Ken JR.
Oh wow, that machine filled my dreams back in the day. I don’t think for one second that I have the skills to ride it but just to go down the street and back and be able to say you’ve ridden one. Thanks for this video out a smile on my face almost as big as yours.
incredible machine! 90-120 plus hp... I'll bet any residents nearby love hearing those sprints up and down the street! LOL
yes only 120hp but they would still go 300km/hr = 185mph.
That bike is crazy wicked! I remember drooling over the Yamaha brochure back in the day that showed this very bike. Thanks professor for giving us a demo of this beast!
These guys got a good thing going. Nice to see these bikes preserved.
That is freakin insane man. You can't let something like that go. You'll never forgive yourself.
I agree. Other big bore 2 strokss are common enough but anytime you need an adrenaline rush, I'd imagine the 750 does the trick.
Mate; I've got an H2...... a keeper ; like my wife !!!
ill buy it if ur gonna sell it
Joer the mam billekont benou dei lopez met Inseennekont(billereed).🤡
@@pauloconnor7951 But if you had to choose,......🤔
Rode the original TZ700 at International Raceway Adelaide in the early 70's - and it was like riding in a 'tunnel of speed'.
Bills right up there at the top with Ken Senior of people that know the most about motorcycles that are still alive respect !
I pretty much spit out my drink seeing a 750 two stroke with no plates speeding back and forth past a HISTORIC AREA NO LITTERING sign.
Not littering! 🤣🍺
Would love to have a engine like that and put it in a modern bike frame :)
You can buy new engine components if your pockets are deep enough. Be prepared to spend $25K just on the cases though.
Oh My. The smile says it all. Why we love our bikes Thank you guys
I could smell it and hear it all the way in California. Awesome machine. Yes, it makes music.
was is and always will be my dream bike. heard crazy high speed wheelie stories. cool toy
This thing sounds amazing. Makes me miss the little Rz350 I once owned. That’s a keeper.
Yeah, I should never have sold my RD350. Nothing else like it before or since.
I am glad you guys are keeping that bike in a functional condition.
That is the best sounding bike Period! Sounds so raw.
True icon of the motorcycle world 🌎 hope you keep it for the museum,, one of those Joey Dunlop won his first TT on ,,beast of a bike ☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️ from northern Ireland,, racing at its best,, Kenny Roberts dirt version 👍👍👍👍👍
Those bikes are incredible!
That thing wasn't even near the power band and it was flying! Wonderful to see it, thanks bad ass Billy!.
Wow, that bike just blew my mind. I'd love to ride it.
Had a 72 Kawasaki H2 750 with Dencos and a 84 Yamaha RZ500, but a TZ750!!
In my dreams while watching King Kenny Roberts and the 500s.
Great video.. Thanks Man ✌️
Remember back in the 80's, watching Superbike class at Sears Point raceway in Calif. Wes Cooley was in the lead and some guy on a TZ 750 went blowing past his Yoshimura GS1000 in the straights. All the 4stroke 4 cylinders were impressive, but the TZ was the only real standout.
Steve Bakkkerrrr.
Steve Baker TZ750 Champ. Road Race them and he could ride them things with feel on those tires back in the day.
Its a heart raiser!!!!
I remember Kenny Roberts riding the TZ750 and I got a fairing from one for my 250, it was the first fairing to go forward under the front wheel about 1979-1980.
That is a TZ-750A, the first year. It is actually a 700cc engine. I raced TZ250's A,C,F back in the day. I was fortunate to test ride a TZ-750D, Ron Pierce's old bike. It was HEAVEN!
What a great bike!! About 20 years ago I always bought my Yamaha parts with RBR (Rob Bron Racing) shop, a very small shop in downtown Amsterdam. He was an ex motorcycle racer, quite famous, once came 2nd to Agostini on TT Assen and fastest (212 MPH) ever recorded on Daytona. He had a bundle of these TZ racing bikes, he always told me that was for his retirement, unfortunately he passed away a few years later.
I remember Rob Bron well. Was a great driver and always in for a joke. Lots of knowledge about these bikes and willing to share this with others. Helped me out in Assen once when I had some mechanical problems with my TZ750. His racing team was called FPT, meaning For Power Tuning but he always called it Flutje Poep Tralala (this joke works for Dutch speakers only). Had a few beers and laughs with him in Aalsmeer shortly before he passed away. Good memories.
Just imagine opening that bike up fully! Scary power !
Love seeing and hearing bike's like these. Instead of just seeing them in museums.
I've owned many Kawasaki Mach III H1s, from 1970 to recently (too crippled now to ride), but I love (and miss) that multiple cylinder two-stroke sound! Thanks!
I love it! As the proud owner of a '79 RD400 Daytona Special and knowing what a blast that bike is, I can't imagine the insanity that is the TZ750. Here's hoping that Yamaha will take a cue from the likes of Langen and bring another 2 stroke to the streets.
Che meraviglia…melodia sublime dei vecchi tempi 👍
That looks to be a "C" model with the flat side chambers and non-mono shock, good for 90 hp (with proper chambers, 120-130 hp). Dale Newton had one in his collection to when he was alive and lived in Chico CA. His even had the factory copper safety wire and had only been ridden at the factory. When he passed away his sons got the collection and I have no idea what happened to them after that. I rebuilt a "D" model and raced it at Sears Point and the last race at Riverside. Very difficult to get a plug chop because of the shear speed in top gear. A writer for a motorcycle mag once wrote that the power from a Husky was like a fire hydrant: the more you opened it, the more came out. The TZ was like that too. I too have great respect for those who could hustle these around. My experience was that trying to turn the bike (18" wheels) was like wrestling a washing machine around a corner. It didn't really want to turn from straight. Oh the memories...
What we need is Seniors outlook on this beauty!!!!
God that smells good. Great actually. As a fellow new englander, I remember the Mike Baldwin v Rich Schlachter show annually at the Loudon Nationals. My dad got the chance to ride Rich Schlachter's "Microlon" TZ. He said it was easy to ride as long as you showed it respect, but he could never imagine riding one at ten tenths. Both of those men are CT natives, by the way.
Absolutely unbelievable! Super awesome machine! I LOVE EXPANSION CHAMBERS!!! The louder the better! Thanks for sharing this great video of an incredible motorcycle!
Bike of my dreams
Just an awesome machine, great to see one running still
the RD 350-400's were insane to ride, can't imagine the 750(4)!
Where is Kenny Roberts when You Need Him ??????🙃
Yamaha should have hung lights on some of those and made it street legal. Keep that bike at all costs!
Love the smell of burning castor oil in the morning, smells like, well, smells like victory! Thanks for a great 2-stroke fix today!
See if you can find an old Kawasaki 2-stroke road race bike, like a H2R 750 or something to that effect, they were just as nasty.
Yamaha made a street version and showed it on a Tokyo motor show (if I remember correctly). Never went in production. I have seen some pictures of it long time ago in a magazine but can't find anything online about it. I think it was called the RZ750 and claimed at 85HP but am probably wrong about this.
2 RD's together and water cooled. Great stuff.
Back in the 70ds a friend had one of kenny roberts 750 yamaha motors in a costom built flat tracker frame . Built by Chaney motors in Iowa . It was crazy . Dry clutch .
I remember the OW31 TZ750s being ridden by the likes of Kenny Roberts and Steve Baker the sound of these big two strokes was fantastic.
I'd love to get that thing on a racetrack somewhere...badass. Reminds me of Kenny Roberts bike .
Out of the box the later models gave 120hp. Joey Dunlop from Northern Ireland took the 1980 Classic TT with a lap record of 115.22 mph. The TZ was the fastest two-stroke to lap the Isle of Man TT course.
I almost fell asleep,, that sounds like a lullaby for a smoker joker 😎🔥
Preach 🔥🔥🔥
All GP and sport bikes last 40 years are attempting to attain the same level of grace as this piece of divinity.
Burnt into my memory is seeing Phil Haslam (Ron's older brother) on a 700 Pharaoh Yamaha at Oliver's Mount Circuit in Scarborough (a scary track on anything) coming out of Mere Hairpin, up the hill on the back wheel, with him stood over the front, bouncing from one side of the track to the other. Commitment isn't the word.
Sadly I was there by the footbridge where Phil had his fatal accident. A very sad day.
@@robinoconnor1203 A great, and fearless rider.
I used to have a mate back in the day and he had a TZ700 in his lounge room it was his old race bike.
Thats an awesome sounding bike..... good job keeping the front end down 😄
I watched Yamaha factory Kenny Robert’s blister around Daytona speedway before Daytona super cross in 1980. Guys that ride these are fearless
Dayummm!!! I love it!! The hell with cam an valve!!! That thing is sikkk an twisted guys!!love the video💪👊👊❤️🇺🇸
Kenny Roberts at the Sacramento mile had to be seen to be believed. He could ride that tinng like no other !
I was very fortunate to do 10 laps around Bay Park Raceway in New Zealand on TZ750 owned by championship racer Trevor Discombe.,,just the most amazing race bike with a wide power band, and eye watering fast...
the chock lever is not just for starting. if you race where there are big altitude changes like IOM you use the lever on long overruns to lub the motor. or if it starts to lean out over the mountain
thats backwards, it gets RICHER at high altitude due to less oxygen.
Yeah Like Kenny Roberts winning on it at the Indiana mile on dirt ..... he said that race took everything he had as a rider that he ever learned his whole life
UA-cam knows where it is at, turn subtitles on...the minute it starts it just says 'Music'.
Beast of a bike!
Man that is a motorcycle! If I was gonna have one that would be it! Super cool. And the sound is amazing
Wow Bill and a TZ two pieces of fantastic history great great video wait til I show My friends this Thanks so much for this video 👍👍👍👍
What a badass machine man! I saw that spin before you mentioned it! 😉
💥👌
I never use antifreeze to stop it freezing (it stays inside) but to stop corrosion of the water jacket and radiator, especially if it's parked up for a while.
I had a chance to ride one in the mid seventies, only in a straight line but it was unforgettable.
Takes me back to Steve Baker in the trans Atlantic races in the uk 🇬🇧👍🏻
Now that's a hard one to find, very cool!
Now that’s a proper bike ridden as should be ridden
Kaplan never disappoints with the baddest two strokes of all time
Cool bike. I could almost smell that 2 stroke aroma
A historic scenic bike. The noise is worthy of preservation.
A couple of years ago they had 8 (?) of them at the Barber Vintage festival. Need to find those pics. Years ago I used to sit on Dale Singletons Daytona winning bike in Ron Mass' basement in Atlanta till it went back home.
Canadian racer Steve Baker was probably the one that got the best out of the TZ750.
So cool! Love the sound. Must be amazing to ride. That said, I had those brakes on a few early Yamahas and they are terrible. Can't imagine racing with them.
I always liked two stroke better than four stroke. And it has this special smell to it. That said. I have only limited experience with engines and vehicle repair. Years back, I owned a two stroke Suzuki K50 moped. 50cc 4 gears. It was the 1976 model. And it was a simple machine to fix. I remember the original cylinder had two channels for fuel, but as I were only able to source one for a three-gear version of the moped, then I had to run with three channels for fuel mixture. And boy did it run smoothly.... But yeah. It was easy to fix. So freaking simple, except for the gearbox and clutch.
If anyone want a good and simple moped, then look for a Suzuki K50 late 1970's model.
What a bike!!!
Very very cool bike!!
Great video!!
God bless Kaplan!! God bless America!!!
Can you possibly get hold of the Can-Am 500 street bike that was planned but cancelled with closing epa regulations. Apparently there are some still existing according to Canned Ham website.
What an absolute monster.. just fantastic
This one looks like a 74. Back then, you could go down to your Yamaha shop , plop down your money and buy one. Fun days :)
That pop start at 7:08 sounded sublime
DAMN that Bike sounds so GOOD 👍
Piece of historical gold!!
The sound is wonderful it is like a quartet of chainsaws LOL all in harmony music to my ears for sure
A real "Cult bike" if ever there was one. sounds amazing and this bike is the most special of the 70's period.
"It's emotionally moving to be involved with this thing."
I can only imagine. ಥ‿ಥ
What a treat only can imagine riding with a pack of them screaming..what a rush
"Historic scenic area" Indeed!
❤️ that motorcycle, proper scarey rides are the best.
I had a RD 400 Daytona … what a bike that was 🏆👍👍💪🤜😁
Watching Kenny Roberts extract the maximum from this bike was a true privilege. Back in the day when national champions had to ride flat track and TT in addition to road races.
That two stroke 750 goes like a rocket i bet.
I absolutely love that widow maker.🤩🤣
This bike is f**kin' awesome!!! It is a shame that they don't build bikes like this anymore...
Don't let that one go. Awsome!👍