Haha I live on a very narrow, boring, perfectly straight road with a ton of old people and some ass with a no muffler BMW got to see he business end of a pipe for harassing us on this street last week. Like I told him, take it to the cussing mountains.
I've been waiting for this moment. Seeing this bike in action. No offense to any of the other awesome bikes you've shown, but this one is the most badass of them all IMO. I'd love to ride that bike! Nice wheelies! I watched 750 world champion Steve Baker ride a TZ750 with open pipes at Westwood in Canada back in the 70's. Sounded wicked in the pits warming up!
King Kenny lived just down the road from us when I was growing up and later in life my best friend became the general manager of Kenny Robert's Yamaha in Modesto, Ca. Those were the days!!!! LOL!!!
Sick and Scary Bike. Manic Mechanic is One Bad Ass! Amazing, that being a 1974 model, that it can still reach 180 mph. I would want a restomod, with Hiiiiigh Quality Dual Disc Brakes on the front and back! I'll bet this bike can still blow the doors off of many modern motorcycles of today. Just Sick! Couldn't imagine twice the power of my RZ 350, in a two stroke. Riders of that bike,.probably get the same adrenaline as skydivers..I hope y'all are able to get a video or two, out with Uncle Ronnie, riding on your Compound. Good Night. 3:30am here. PS...Notice how quickly Jr moved his car across that road, when pulling out! 😂😂😂
The D model was the best of them, 1977, as I recall they were $3300 when biggest road bike was about $1000. Standard they were about 100hp with a red line of 10,000. Barry Ditchburn in Melbourne Au is making new cases, cast by Consortium Racing in Melbourne. You can actually buy new crank cases for a new build. The 2nd most awesome bike to come out of Japan. The first is the OW69, those machines were ground breaking at the time. Tire tech at the time wasn't good enough to keep up. At Daytona Lawson and King Kenny came 1st and 2nd. Kenny said afterwards, it was wheel spinning from the banking half way down the straight, tuned heavily retarded.
i think it is safe to have more trust in Jeff the Manic Mechanic's riding abilities [ and wrenching ] than almost anyone. like it's no big deal to wheelie a TZ750 [ someone elses ] with flat tires and a misfire [ ? ] ..........no problem. wb
Vicious sound. I saw a Video of King Kenny blasting a flat tracker with this motor in it and it’s insane. The Manic Mechanic was certainly up to the task👍🏼 Semper Fidelis 🇺🇸
Nothing more raw and wild than a TZ750!!! Screw all the other big bikes! Bring em back Yamaha!!! I am sure we know how to make 2 strokes legal by now lol!
Great video guys, always a treat and a surprise to what you guys produce, I watched motorbike racing last weekend at Croft racetrack in North Yorkshire,UK, and there were a couple of these at the event amongst other 2 strokes and as well a variety of classic 4 stroke, was an awesome day and the smell was second to none!.
140hp right out of the crate..much more to be had. Likes to eat clutches and fuel. This would be insane transplanted into a new R6 roller! The ultimate streetbike!
@@mr.m325 I could get that TZ up to 185hp without too much trouble. I'm sure more but I like to figure conservative. I build 600cc triple sled engines that make North of 185hp. The power to weight of the TZ at 185hp would easily top the Ducati & the TZ at the box stock hp levels EASILY tops the Ducati in cool factor. ....just say'n.
@@keithpeterson6108 Exactly this. Fourstrokes are f-n lame compared to twostrokes. It's because California has major globalist influence on the whole world, we no longer enjoy twostrokes. The twostroke snow mobiles , better yet the water scooters with 1200cc inline fours, would be amazing on the street. For the record the first TZ750s had something like 112hp out of the crate. That is the production bikes for private riders. No one knows exactly the factory bikes output. Even the last proper GP bikes were somewhere over 160hp and weighed closer to 120kg, if I remember correctly.
@@impalaSS65 I agree 💯% on the bogus push to eliminate 2strokes & eventually gas powered things all together. Most of those production machines were built pretty conservative. Better pipe design of today help a ton as well. Thanks for sharing the stats on the bike.👍
Rz 350 is a handful and here you have 2 siamesed together LOL 🧐😳 how come it's called aTZ750 when it's only 700CCs not that it matters, nothing could touch it ! 😁
@@dr.hugog.hackenbush9443 Cool , do you really think they needed to add 50cc's to the bike ? I guess they did it just to add a little more insult to injury 😁
@@dr.hugog.hackenbush9443 Looking at the brake disc carriers this is THE earliest model, 74/A. Its capacity was 694cc (2x347cc) from the factory, so unless it's had a major update then it's still "700cc" not the "750cc" of the later years.. but ALL model-years are officially called TZ750.
Great wheelies Manic Mechanic, I imagine Michael Dunlop would have jetting specs for these bikes from his dads an uncles Road Raceing. There's a great DVD called the Road Racers and VFour Victory from Duke Marketing, the Road Racers covers predominantly the Irish road raceing scene in the 1970s these Yamaha 750 feature a lot. Best to all.
FUCK YES. IF I'm ever out your way I'm gonna call in, shake your hand and talk shit, ideally with a beer in the other hand. I've not seen a big TZ for 30 plus years, awesome.
I see y’all, let the MM take the TZ out grease him up “now youse can’t leave” Good help is hard to find I get it! Hope the man enjoys his retirement. Look for techs with speed shop experience like myself, bikes will come natural. Love the content guys, American dream
I know I wasn't seeing things because I rode it . But the K&N Yamaha shop here in Tulsa had a two stroke engine with two cylinders forward and one back in a roadrace frame . It was a factory works bike that Pat and Phil McDonald had ( Owners ) . It had no Yamaha markings on it and was wicked fast . I wish I knew for sure what it's designation was ( early eighties ) . PK
Not single piston calipers but opposed piston calipers, as on most big Yamahas of the time. Front end basically lifted directly from the TX750 road bike. There was no road bike frame before this, basically Yamaha-USA's "California Crew" suggested that Yamaha copy the frame of the successful Daytona-winning Triumph/BSA triples for the TZ750 and works YZR500.. IIRC Rob North event built the first frames for Yamaha.
Would love to see more on this bike, the owners build of it,manic mechanics input. I once came alongside a convertible ford xr3i that had four passengers in it the driver Decided he wanted to race, I was just waiting for a vehicle to get outa the way, anyway I dropped down two gears got 11,500 rpm on the clock an took off! But I'll never forget the pained exspression of the passengers I was running unbaffled exspansion chambers, Allspeeds with loose rattley end caps the cacophony was unbelievable with a helmet on. I won the race instantly.
