For all you real men...

I rode one of those once, all I can say is that I am lucky to still be alive. What a dangerous piece of crap that was.

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If you intend to actually ride one of these at speed, you need to have your insurance paid up!

I believe they called those bikes the "bone breaker". :/

Yea, I've heard that "that's the one they warned ya about"

I was scared to be on the same TRACK with those!

I must not be a real man, because I have no desire to try that.

Rather have the fox body in the background.

My dad raced AHRMA on one in the early 90s. Didn't know then it was such a beast, but I was probably still on 50s. I want one. Don't need more hospital bills.

TM400 aka's: "The Career Ender" "Leg Snapper" "Loop out of Death"

We had one in the 70's. It was so hard to ride we made an extended swingarm for it and used it at Hillclimb events. It did much better there than on the race track.

Well, at least until it grenade the transmission out the top of the centercases!

It went to the boneyard and was never to tear another ounce of flesh, snap a tibia or fracture a collarbone.

That is actually a 75 model if the gas tank is original. Sunburst logo was 75, the green wrap around stripe was 74. Everybody complaining about the TM400 ills, Those were gone by 74 and the bikes actually handled like the swingarm bolt WAS installed. Engines were mild mannered by then as well. The 72 or 73 models were known to be 40 hp lightswitches. Dirt Bike magazine dyno'd a 75 model TM400 back around 1994 and it made 33 hp at the rear wheel. That bike would make a decent vintage legal bike being that it is virtually identical to the 74.

I have a 74 tm100 at the shop that my uncle raced back in the day. That was the bike I learned to ride on but I'm sure it's nothing like a 400. They look identical though