I love my TM 300. I have the carb model. I feel it revs up much faster than KTM/Sherco/Beta which makes it harder to control but it's exactly what you want for racing. I'd say the power delivery is not ideal for hard enduro but it's manageable once you're used to it. Suspension was super stiff from factory for me. For sand races it was awesome - it was the best suspension I'd ever ridden when it came to situations that you want a stiff suspension. But in the rocks I was really getting beat up and couldn't even make it through a rocky PA harescramble without giving my arms a break (PA is VERY rocky - the races are more than 50% rock gardens, usually more like 80-90%). The chassis feels amazing. I also came off a YZ250 and never felt good on the KTM chassis. The TM chassis was a quick and easy transition that feels somewhere between YZ and KTM. I strongly recommend this bike to anyone who races. I do not recommend it for a casual trail rider.
Excellent info. I like the way you are able to separate what you want from a bike and what the manufacturer’s intended use was… unlike a certain other bike youtuber who shall remain nameless! Look forward to some more
Dpr pipe gives better bottom end ive heard. Get mokin mods maps and head makes fi much better. Slow map is slower and fast map is crazy. Lot guys liked carb better as just more power everywhere.
No idea. I don’t follow any type of racing closely. I watch most of the Redbull hard enduro series but besides Manny leading right now I couldn’t tell you much.
Bit late for a reply, but TM don’t really do hard enduro. They compete in Enduro GP and national Motocross in some countries in Europe (as well as World Supermoto) but they openly admit that their bikes are built for speed not hard enduro (although they are more than capable if you know what you’re doing). They don’t have any “factory” presence in the US in any racing capacity, so no National Enduro or GNCC squad, just the odd privateer.
I love my TM 300. I have the carb model. I feel it revs up much faster than KTM/Sherco/Beta which makes it harder to control but it's exactly what you want for racing. I'd say the power delivery is not ideal for hard enduro but it's manageable once you're used to it. Suspension was super stiff from factory for me. For sand races it was awesome - it was the best suspension I'd ever ridden when it came to situations that you want a stiff suspension. But in the rocks I was really getting beat up and couldn't even make it through a rocky PA harescramble without giving my arms a break (PA is VERY rocky - the races are more than 50% rock gardens, usually more like 80-90%). The chassis feels amazing. I also came off a YZ250 and never felt good on the KTM chassis. The TM chassis was a quick and easy transition that feels somewhere between YZ and KTM. I strongly recommend this bike to anyone who races. I do not recommend it for a casual trail rider.
Sounds a lot like my experience with it, although I do enjoy it a lot while casually riding less technical terrain.
Excellent info. I like the way you are able to separate what you want from a bike and what the manufacturer’s intended use was… unlike a certain other bike youtuber who shall remain nameless!
Look forward to some more
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Excellent review, much appreciated!
Great review on this bike
Very good presentation of the TM and first ride
My 22 300 is carb lots of grunt on bottom changed the needle to necj sorted it right out
I’m not an expert on TM, but from what I read there are maps available that should do that to this as well.
Dpr pipe gives better bottom end ive heard. Get mokin mods maps and head makes fi much better. Slow map is slower and fast map is crazy. Lot guys liked carb better as just more power everywhere.
One of the big questions I had about this bike initially was whether or not there were tuning options. Turns out there certainly are.
Nice initial review. Did you add an arming switch to deal with the PV reset issue?
Not yet. I need to do a bit more looking into that.
0:48 i did not know Mr. Chuck Harder was a bad ass
😂 That was actually Fishy on the bike there, although that bike DEMANDS being wheelied. It can’t be helped.
fast riders tend to move from FI back to Carb. But yes, this bikes are for pro guys. Wish i can have one of them :)
Was the bogging out at low revs because the crank bearing was starting to fail?
Definitely not. Same symptoms after the rebuild. It now has over 30 hours on it.
You did forget to mention Rieju.
I have yet to see a Rieju on my bench. I’ve worked on lots of early 2000s Gassers though. 😜
Who are their GNCC and hard enduro riders?
No idea. I don’t follow any type of racing closely. I watch most of the Redbull hard enduro series but besides Manny leading right now I couldn’t tell you much.
Bit late for a reply, but TM don’t really do hard enduro. They compete in Enduro GP and national Motocross in some countries in Europe (as well as World Supermoto) but they openly admit that their bikes are built for speed not hard enduro (although they are more than capable if you know what you’re doing).
They don’t have any “factory” presence in the US in any racing capacity, so no National Enduro or GNCC squad, just the odd privateer.
Great bikes 👍