Roadracing World s Sam Fleming and Melissa Berkoff visited the TM Racing factory in Pesaro, Italy in April 2022. TM Racing makes arguably the most exquisite racing motorcycles for MX, Enduro and Supermoto in the world. They also made a championship-winning Moto3 road race bike! Join Sam and Melissa on a very in-depth tour of the factory including the machine shop(s), the handcrafted engines and the assembly. These videos are unscripted and had to be shot contemporaneously with the tour so forgive any verbal slips and/or the handheld nature of the camera work. Part 2 of 5 00:20 Enter the Factory! (finally, after Part 1) 00:36 2-Stroke Engine Assembly 02:10 4-Stroke Race Engine Assembly 03:17 Kart Engine Assembly 03:27 Gastone Sarafini, owner of TM Racing, (moving parts) 04:57 Nice Italian Jugs 06:25 Throttle Body Casting 07:29 Aluminum Frame Parts 08:56 Hand Finishing Engine Cylinders and Ports 11:30 Walking to New Machine Shop 13:40 Shock Casting 14:46 Machined Dogbone 15:41 Machined F
Army Of Darkness Returns to Defend Title at Opening Round of WERA/N2 Endurance Series at Carolina Motorsports Park This Weekend. AOD takes to the tarmac to launch their attempt to win their 6th straight Heavyweight Championship and 18th Endurance championship. Piloting the AOD R1 will once again be Chris Peris (AOD Class of 2005) and Ben Walters (AOD Class of 2003), who are joined this year by new team member Cody Wyman. The Yamaha Champions School instructors will be able to put their lessons to the test aboard the team’s Yamaha R1s prepared and nurtured by long-time team members Tim Gooding, newly minted YouTube star Melissa Berkoff, YT Lechner, Chris Manfrin, and Anthony Consorte. The entire group will once again be loosely coordinated by Team Captain Sam Fleming. “Each year the competition improves so we have to keep innovating to try to stay a couple tenths of a second ahead. We had to do a lot of development work when