Ep 105 - TM Racing EN 300 Two Stroke Enduro Dirt Bike First Impressions

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Not many of these things around. Maybe only 500 or so in the USA each year spread across the entire model range.  I'd never seen one in person before getting mine

Hand built and you can see they are just a little different than the more mainstream, mass produced bikes.  I'll tell you what this bike mostly resembles at the end of the podcast here.  Stay tuned for that.

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I weighed mine at 245 lbs full of fuel.  It came with a rad fan installed and a skid plate, but it didn't cover the linkage.  It also had Estart and the kickstart.  Had hand guards too  That is 6 lbs heavier than my 23 KTM 300 XC, but still pretty darn close.  It's basically identical in weight to my 22 GasGas EC300

Power valve is a little weird since it resets and has to go through it's calibration process each time the bike is started.  The dealer mitigated this for me by installing an arming switch which essentially keeps the power on the bike so that it doesn't know it's shut off.  I can then use this to keep the bike from cycling the power valve calibration each time.

Right off the bat I could tell that the forks and shock are a little stiff for hard enduro or slower riding.  My first and only ride so far was on some pretty rocky terrain.  I was bouncing all over the place.  Removed all clicks and was better, but still not great.  Why do all the bike makers assume we are hard charging racers?

The bike seems fairly front end biased.  Lots of front end traction, but maybe has a tendency to knife the front end down if you arne't careful.  Kinda like the rear end is pretty tall.  Feels more like a single track/hard enduro bike, than a desert machine.  Feels shorter front to back than some of the other bikes I've had recently like the  YZ450FX and the KTM 250 XC

Foot pegs come out flat... makes it easier for my feel to slip off the pegs

Motor is crazy powerful.  Very snappy.  Easy to lift the front wheel off the ground.  Starts really quickly.  I need to adjust my idle up.  Vibrations still there

Brembo brakes, but my front brake needed to be bled out.  I didn't notice it until the night before I went to ride it.  Wasn't great on the trail and I have since bled the air out of the line to make it better for my next ride.

Plastics are a little sharp in places like on the rear fender.  I've nearly cut my hands a couple of times lifting the bike on an off stands.  Seems a little more brittle of a plastic than some of the bikes from what I've seen so far. 

Hands and feet feel close together and the triple clamps don't allow for multiple bar positions.  Maybe you can order it with different triple clamps, but mine did'n't come that way. 

Feels and awful lot like a Sherco 300SE.  Like crazy. there I said it