I bought my 1973 TX750 second hand in 1974. It had very few miles on it when I got it but that soon changed.
It made many a trip back to our camp in St. Anne.
It made a few trip to the Miramichi also and one that was quite memorial to say the least.
About 20 miles into the 150 mile trip home the omni phase balancer chain broke. But I was lucky and it fell to the bottom and broke nothing….but by the time we arrived back home in Shediac, those nice signal lights that I had added and a lot more… were no more…. and they talk about Harleys and how they vibrate….
Well if you ever rode a Yamaha with no balancer chain…
Need I say more?
The first couple of years after buying it we had no garage to store it in so it spent the winters in the house next to the bed… one night I jumped out of bed and told the wife..”I’m getting to hell out of here” and jumped on the old TX…it has remained a story that goes along with the bike and is told quite often.
One day I lent it to a Harley guy from Alberta and he blew the motor…… I started to rebuild the motor and when my son–in-law moved to Boston and wanted to sell his Harley…. Well the old TX went into the shed and for 10 years the motor was covered up and stored under my back deck. By the time I decide to go back to it I was now driving my second Harley and had recently retired after 35 years of climbing power poles.
I also have a 1974 TX that needs a few parts but maybe someday…. Right now the old “Boss Hog” as it is called is running like a clock and is fun to rip down the street and feel the tourque, going through the gears. The undisputed sound of the TX….
I don’t really drive it very much now… saving it to look at and dream of the good old days.
I have a parts manuel on the TX750 which Harry Moses gave me. It is a valuable asset when working on my TX along with my shop manuel. Thanks a lot Harry for that and a lot of other great info.
