Sherco Factory Official team raced Castagn’Hard French Extreme Enduro with a new look to Mario Roman and Teo Kabakchiev’s factory bikes – Enduro21 takes a closer look and asks what’s new?

A convincing victory at the Castagn’Hard, a relatively new French Extreme Enduro, for Teo Kabakchiev and second place for Mario Roman showed the Sherco Factory Enduro Team is building up their 2025 season, no matter what shape it might take.

This came on the back of a similar result at the more establish, season opening, Ales Trem in January where Teo and Mario were the only two official finishers at the notoriously long French race.

Last weekend at Castagn’Hard, another French extreme this time based out of Privas which is halfway between Montpellier and Lyon, we spotted the boys were running different livery on their Sherco SE 300 two-stroke race bikes.

With the new addition of “EXTREM” down the wide of Roman and Kabakchiev’s bikes, Enduro21 wondered what was going on? (Not to be patronising but Extrem is French for Extreme, if you were wondering).

New Sherco Factory Official Extreme Team

We got in touch with Sherco to find out and the answer is simple, to distinguish themselves from the Enduro racing team, the Sherco Factory Official Extreme Team is racing with new graphics.

The reason is to distinguish themselves from the official Enduro team in the EnduroGP World Championship. Those boys are currently spread out across Europe, contesting national championships succesfully in Spain and Italy as they build up to EnduroGP round one in Portugal on April 4-6.

The Sherco Hard Enduro boys meanwhile have this fresh look to separate their bikes in the factory racing team. It proved a succesful debut for the new colours with victory for Teo and a hard-fought second place for mario in the five-hour Castagn Hard race.

Underneath the graphics these are the same SE 300 race bikes of course, some of the crispest sounding two-strokes you will hear on planet earth by the way.

Next time you get chance at an event, wherever you are in the world, listen to Teo or Mario’s bike as they clutch it and drive up a bank, large rock or hill. They sound like 500 two-strokes!

Photo Credit: Sherco Factory Racing