Living in the 70s - Yamaha Twins Video

[Papa Zook]

[saab9k]

They are sweet.

and

super fast

[Lucky]

Thanks Zook.Great bikes and wonderful music.What's not to like?

[Memnoch451]

What I love about older bikes is they went really fast had poor braking systems, spoke wheels that flexed in corners, They would bottom out in turns and have a wobble at speed..... That was living.

I would go back to 1970 - 1978 in a heart beat!!!!


Thanks for posting... Now I have to walk all the way back down memory lane to my desk and work!

[Loner]

I go back one more decade - and at least one Yamaha twin was outstanding. I bought a Yamaha 100 twin that had been beefed up (by a couple of the older guys who mechaniced on 2-strkes) for road racing. It had the low fairing, racing seat, and a few other visual mods, but I bought it in their garage as they were finishing it.

I'd owned at least two HD panheads by then, a Honda 90, and others I'd have to concentrate on to recall. But the Yamaha 100 took the cake. Ridiculous power for its displacement once you got it revved up to its power zone. Top speed (with me being a young fat boy astride it) was approaching 130 mph indicated by its speedo (accuracy can be questioned, but it was spooky by any means).

I played with that Yamaha regularly until I traded for another bike - a Kawasaki Mach III 500. Three cylinders, and a power curve that exceeded anything in that era. I don't know the top speed cause even with me being motorcycle crazy I was to scared to find out.

[ronchi]

great story,thanks. had a 650 spes2 and a 850 maxum.loved those bikes

[joncallihan]

The only Yamaha I've owned was one of the best Brit bikes built it Japan. A TX750 single overhead cam twin. It leaked like a sieve, went around corners better than I could expect of it, made sufficient power to take my wife and me to and from Key West (we live and did then too, near Denver) in the spring of 1975.

Jon

[Memnoch451]

The only Yamaha I've owned was one of the best Brit bikes built it Japan. A TX750 single overhead cam twin. It leaked like a sieve, went around corners better than I could expect of it, made sufficient power to take my wife and me to and from Key West (we live and did then too, near Denver) in the spring of 1975.

Jon

Road trip in 1975.... Easy Rider!

[skuuter]

Built a Cafe Racer out of one of these once....same for a Kawasaki 500 and 750 Triples.....Great Horsepower, Dismal handling....

[Bailegb]

I also had a Yamaha 100 Twin in the 60's. Used to show off by speeding over the church parking lot speed bumps and seeing how much air I could get. Alot of fun until I went way too fast and came down on the next speed bump. End of the bike and almost the end of me. Luckily I was a teenager and immortal! Graduated to a Honda 500 4cyl in the 70's and I kept those tires on the pavement.