Werkstatt Motorcycles

Hi, my name is Marie Oberg. I have been with the Werkstatt Team since 2004. I'm the shop manager, handle the parts department and make sure everything here runs smoothly.

I started getting into motorcycles practicing on my friend's Honda CL90. Then in 1997 I bought my first bike, a 1981 Moto Guzzi V50III. I had been riding on the back of my friends' bikes and decided to get my own instead.

One sunday, my friend Cliff Farrar and I were riding by Sears Point Raceway (now Infineon) when there was an AFM motorcycle race happening. We stopped, checked it out, and got hooked!

Cliff and I started our own team, Race Two Stroke, now team Kilowatt. Cliff is the rider, I'm the crew chief and tuner. We bought a Honda NSR250 to start on and later switched to a Yamaha TZR250.

We were total newbies and learned as we went along. It took us only three years to take the championship!

I love being involved in motorcycles and motorcycle racing. I religiously follow MotoGP, and I am a big Valentino Rossi fan. I managed to get his autograph at Laguna Seca in 2006!

In 1999 I sold my Guzzi and got a brand new '99 Yamaha R6 that I still ride today. I have ridden it on all California tracks except for Fontana. I also have taken Reg Pridmore's class and a couple of Keith Code's Superbike School courses and have been on various trackdays.

I am originally from Sweden and have lived in San Francisco since 1981.

 

Marie jumping out of a perfectly running aircraft.