Ny queens usaDarrick, where in the world are-you? The U.K.? Somewhere else in Europe? Add your location under your screen name so we know from where you're posting.
The Berlin bike is interesting, no-way I'd ride w/o a front fender where we get 60+ inches (152+ cm) of rain a year.
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Welcome, if you find other VMaxes you like or that possibly would be of-interest, post 'em up. Even bad examples serve a purpose: "how not to-do it!" Here's an example of that, it's actually an art object (objet d'art) from an artist of reknown, Grayson Perry. It probably pisses-off the H-D boys who can't take a joke, because the basis for it happens to be one of the most-coveted of the H-D production models, the Knucklehead. In this case, truly, "one picture is worth a thousand words."Ny queens usa
Love this bike!Darrick, where in the world are-you? The U.K.? Somewhere else in Europe? Add your location under your screen name so we know from where you're posting.
The Berlin bike is interesting, no-way I'd ride w/o a front fender where we get 60+ inches (152+ cm) of rain a year.
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Dammmed if it dont remind me tooThe side view reminds me of a flat-tracker. A very-heavy flat-tracker! Those of you who are 'of a certain age,' and who have followed the AMA flat-track series for many decades, will recall the bruiser that Yamaha came-up with for the 1975 Indianapolis Mile for their #1 rider, Kenny Roberts. Kenny wore the #1 plate for winning the championship the prior year, he also won it in '73.
The ascension of Yamaha in the AMA championship series required earning points in a number of racing types. Flat-track and road-racing were two of them, the TT series of today has spun-off from those times. When Yamaha released the TZ 700/750, they gained an advantage over the other manufacturers, specifically in roadracing. That's when Kenny Roberts went from a West Coast dirt tracker to "King Kenny," and ended-up in Europe racing against the world's best riders and equipment.
From the link at the end of the post:
In 1978, Roberts became the first American to win the 500cc World Motorcycle Racing Championship, a feat he repeated in 1979 and 1980. Over the next three years he finished third, fourth and second, respectively in the World Championship standings.
The TZ 750 was a fearsome inline-4 two-stroke roadracer, and Kenny's mechanic, Kel Carruthers, himself a champion-quality competitor before he became Robert's mechanic, decided Kenny needed something for longer flat track events. It was Doug Schwerma, who had been building Champion racing frames for TT and flat-track racers, who built the TZ 750-engined dirt track bikes. Originally there were six built. They were for Rick Hocking, who was the first to ride the prototype, at ASCOT in CA. Kenny Roberts, Steve Baker, Randy Cleek, Skip Aksland, and Don Vesco were the "lucky guys" for-whom the TZ 750 dirt track bikes were built-for.
At the Indy Mile, in August 1975, after riding the bike to his win, Roberts famously said, "they don't pay me enough to ride that thing!"
Interestingly, when the prototype was built, they took it to Baylands Raceway in the San Francisco Bay area, where ten years later, another rider would set the motorcycling world on its ear when he turned a low-ten-second quarter-mile e.t. on another Yamaha, a street-legal V-four: Jay Gleason and the V-Max.
The TZ 750 dirt-track bike did O.K. at its shake-down, it turned a time comparable to a Hyabusa: 9.5 seconds, and 138 MPH. After winning the 1975 Indy Mile with Kenny Roberts, the bike was promptly outlawed, because flat track was pretty-much a Harley-Davidson benefit, and even Kel Carruthers voted against it being allowed to continue, after having been one of the guys responsible for the build of this fearsome powerhouse. Be-sure to read the race description in the link, you can only imagine what Springsteen and the other H-D riders must've-thought as the bike passed them with a huge disparity in-speed. Roberts said he estimated he was capable of 145 MPH on the mile race straights. No-wonder he made that comment! Here-comes the turn, time to 'pitch her sideways!'
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https://amcn.com.au/editorial/15482/
I assume that you're referring to Kenny Roberts' TZ 750, flattrackers are spec'ed that way in their rulebook.no front brake?!!?!?!
The bike I seen.on Google news. This week. They did a good write up.About the build. It's a 94. And they said.motor was so strong.no need for modifying.the proportions at the rear aren't quite right to my eye and it looks odd without a headlamp, so my version would be like this:
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It's not a streetbike, your labor and $ costs would have you putting it into static display. Also the powerband is nothing you'd want for the street.My knees would be in my armpits with that footpeg arrangement.
On a separate note, I would LOVE to own a TZ750!
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