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We ran a 14, 15 and 2 16's and got some slightly different maps for the power valves sorted out too. Great bikes, really enjoyed riding them, had 2 DNF's in 3 seasons. one was a pinched O ring on the head , the other was getting caught on the wrong gearing on a drying track and having it nip at the end of a long straight, cos i changed down too early.
As it stands now we have 2 running in the UK, and will hopefully have the 2 16's running in the German series with a rider with fewer years (and kilo's) to worry about than me.
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Does that summarize your testing as well? I really appreciate the insight, this will save us a ton of testing and time sorting things out on our end!
TMs are pretty cheap here in Finland. You can get the TM 300 for 8200€. A SX/TC 250 is 8800€ and a YZ 250 is 8600€.
Man this thread will be so good. It almost makes me wanna get a TM!
Looking forward to watching and learning from your builds on these bikes. Thank you for sharing.
Pit Row
He said it turns as good or better than his Honda and is as stable in the straights as his Kawi. We havent even sent the suspension out as it’s actually really good right out of the box. The forks are definitely comparable to the YZ even though TM doesn’t run the YZ valving due to a confidentiality agreement between Yamaha & KYB. The shock is actually better than anything we’ve ever used or tested on any bike including a Traxx A kit shock. However, we havent had the bike very long and haven’t ridden anything super rough as of yet. More to come on that as we get more time on it at various tracks.
My son is 6’2” tall and the bike feels great... doesn’t hit his stilt legs on the bars in turns and has no problems with transitions between sitting and standing at all. Not sure how a shorter rider would fair on it, but Ping seemed to love them when he tested them and I think he’s a shorter rider.
As far as the motor... it has more power in the mid and top than a KTM 125 or a full mod YZ. The KTM has a bit more bottom but not by much. We have a VHM head with the standard insert that we’ll be testing with that is supposed to increase the power across the entire range to make the power even better. We have no plans to mod this bike outside of the head as it has plenty of power in stock trim. We really don’t even need the head but we like to test different set ups for fun.
Hope this helps.
My apologies to black diamond... I will take some pics of our bike tomorrow and put it in the product review section to keep this thread clean. To answer your question though... HGS comes stock on the TMs.
You are welcome to post anything TM related on this thread, I am always interested to hear other peoples opinions on various mods, parts, etc. I am also learning these bikes day by day and find new things all the time that I did not know before purchasing them.
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