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RACING
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History.
TM

UK
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It all started way back in
About
1976 with two friends who
Us.
had one great love in
TM
common: motorcycles and
Racing
Brochures
racing. Thanks to the
TM
excellent quality and high
RACING performance of their
- motorcycles, that small
Quality Pesaro enterprise became
TM in just a few years a force
RACING to be reckoned with. The
- pioneers of TM, Claudio
Parts Flenghi and Francesco
TM Battistelli (or rather "Mr
RACING Engine" and "Mr Frame")
- are two childhood friends
Dealers of the same age who have
TM
spent a large part of their
- lives in direct contact with
User the world of motorcycles.
Advice
At just 12 years old,
TM
already working in car and
RACING

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2012 motorcycle workshops,

- Flenghi in particular in a
MX / few years assimilated
EN / considerable experience
SM working in sectors of great
Range
technical interest such as
LATEST
the Motob racing
PRODUCTS
department and the Benelli
COBRA

Motorcycles
experimentation and
PRE-
testing centre. Battistelli,
OWNED / with a love of motocross,
DEMO managed to involve his
SCALVINI
friend Flenghi in his
Exhausts passion and after an initial
Lubricants phase in which they
and dabbled with improving the
Fuels performance of their
Liquid friends' bikes as a hobby,
Intelligence they decided to do the job
115 in earnest by preparing an
TUBLISS Aermacchi on which
System Battistelli won the regional
VOR
championship. In the
Motorcycles meantime Flenghi began to
SERVICING
cultivate his real interest,
RACING
that is to say the world of
TEAMS
Go Kart racing, gaining
CTR
important experience on
Events
Picture
two-stroke engines. And so
Gallery the idea was formed of
Links
building an original
TM
motorcycle with an engine
UK made by themselves.
- Flenghi set to work,
Shop coming up with his first
News engine in a short time
Contact which was to be fitted into
Home a motocross frame built by
the competent Battistelli,
who also took care of road
testing the bike. This is
how, in 1976, the first experimental bike was born
and which was entrusted to two young riders who
immediately achieved results far above the wildest
expectations.

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1977 TM Racing 125cc Machine

In 1977 the two friends left their respective occupations and founded
their motorcycle making enterprise which was registered under the name
of TM (from the initials of the names of the sons of Flenghi and Battistelli
- Thomas and Mirko). Still in 1977, a bike was entrusted to Gastone
Serafini, a young rider from Pesaro, who was to be a determining figure
in helping Battistelli in developing the bike and who would go on to
achieve competition results of the highest level. At the 1977 Milan
Motorcycle Show TM was to attain unexpected success that would urge
it to move its premises from Flenghi's small workshop to a new and
more well equipped factory located in the Pesaro industrial zone. It was
in exactly this period that the Serafini family stepped in to became part
of the organisation and in so doing the production figure of 200 moto
cross bikes was reached in 1978. In 1979 TM expanded its racing team
adding Tommaso Lolli alongside Gastone Serafini, the bike continued to
develop and it was in this year too that the first TM enduros were built. In
1982 Battistelli decided to leave TM and his place was taken over by
Gastone Serafini who, having reached the end of his professional racing
career, decided to join Flenghi full time in running the company.

2012 Machines Go Into Production.

The following years saw a succession of different riders at the controls

of TM motorcycles achieving excellent results both nationally and
internationally, with equally excellent results in the Kart sector, where
TM and its bikes soon became a leader. The philosophy that has always
distinguished TM is without doubt the choice of materials, which must
always be of the highest quality, and the workmanship, even defined by
some as "obsessive", not to mention the high performance of the
engines used on the standard bikes, in many cases far superior to those

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of the most prestigious competitors. This justifies the prices of these

jewels of engineering that appeal to a niche market made up of very
demanding customers. They can in fact purchase a standard product
with which to race in high level competition. All the rest is recent history
and the advent of 4-stroke engines has certainly not taken TM unawares,
having worked hard and in a short period been able to expand its range
with three new 4-stroke cylinder capacities 250/400/530 cc. In addition,
great attention has been paid to development of the new 450cc and
250cc machines, which have replaced the original 4 stroke engines,
more due to market trends however than for reasons of trying to
increase the performance of the already powerful engines fuel injection
has now made its way onto the scene, the new 450Fi fuel injected
machine has recently powered TM to its second consecutive World
Supermotard Championship title and with 747 Motorsports other rider
finishing in the runner-up spot, taking TM to 1st and 2nd in the 2010
World Championship and winning TM Racing the 2010 constructors
Championship, a great testament to this new engine.

...and The Story will go on...

TM UK

Tel: 01249 715523

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