Did you ever ride one? I tried one when they came out and was shocked by the brakes but underwhelmed with the lack of power.
I've never even seen one in real life, but I appreciate the assessment. I had a feeling that the reality of it was far from the expectation.
I rode a TDM 850, built around the same engine, for a couple of days in the early nineties. I had a blast, but I had almost no experience so it's hard to say what I would have thought of that bike after I owned a few of my own.
I've seen quite a few TDM's for sale but never a TRX. The TRX has a claimed 79HP and is 418#'s dry. With those specs you'd think it would scoot along just fine.
I had one. The HP assessment was optimistic, lots of bolt on parts from Japan got you to 100ish. Also handled like a soggy pie, everything but the sound was under whelming. From memory it was nearly revived in the last decade for something else (tdm 1050?) never got there. Allegedly was a great power plant in dirt bikes set up for desert racing.
Wiki and another site confirmed it was Japan and Europe only. My colleague in Munich had one and I almost bought it and imported here back around 2000