Looking at the TR750 you can see why it was called the Flexi Flyer. Long wheelbase, skinny frame tubing, raked out skinny forks, vertical rear shocks, engine set low and forward, final drive sprocket way ahead of swingarm pivot and fresh air everywhere surrounded by tubing. By an odd coincidence the one rider in the world who would have noticed all this at first glance , Jack Findlay, did race this bike and won a TT on it. The significance is that he previously rode the beautifully crafted McIntyre Matchless where Bob Mac understood how to configure all this. Odd that Suzuki hadn't noticed it to learn from.
Anyway it was smokily fired up and produced the flat drone I remember from watching Sheene, Newbold et al when they raced them.
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