I think... at least I hope, you meant well. I'm going to take it that you mean I fall into the "realistic enthusiast" category since I'm sucking it up and trying to work out the problems even though I'm getting very little support.
But in case some people are trying to find a way to call me petty, I would like to say that I've been much more patience than I feel I get credit for.
Right now I have fixed multiple problems on my Beta and you can search the internet all you want and you won't find me complaining about Beta anywhere except this thread.
BUT I could have.
1) When I got the bike from the dealer, it only had half coolant in it. Factory or dealer, whoever filled it didn't open the bleeder screw apparently. It could have been a real major disaster, but luckily i caught it.
2) I decided to change the original plastic as soon as I got the bike and keep it all to put back on the bike if I ever decided to sell it. Two screws were stripped from the factory, both on the rear fender so I had to fix those first thing. On a brand new bike. I won't get into how many bolts and nuts were either very loose or at the edge of stripping tight.
3) The speedo didn't work when I got the bike home. Unplugged and re-plugged to get it working. That happens once per month regularly. Last time that didn't work, but after 2 weeks it started working on its own and has been intermittent ever since. it works. It doesn't work. The speed suddenly jumps up. The speed suddenly drops down. Pretty close to useless.
4) The radiator fan had a wobble from the factory, so bad you wondered why it didn't fall off. Well one day it did. I pulled it off and it had no nut, clip, or even a place for either. Apparently it was a press on fit! I pressed it back on and added a touch of glue to help hold it.I have no faith it will hold. Its cheap and flimsy.
5) The worst one; the shock is permanently messed up from the factory and it appears the machining is off on the linkage pull rod and whoever put the bike together KNEW it and used the part any way. At about 2 1/2 months in, I found a bad top shock bearing and decided to replace it MYSELF, WITHOUT PUTTING IT ON A BOARD OR CALLING THE DEALERSHIP. Turns out the factory had pressed it either from the wrong side or pushed it too far through. It was up on the groove it is supposed to stop at and now that machined groove is boogered over into the seat area. There is no way to fix it now without maybe machining a solution or buying a new shock/shock body. I worked out some of the boogering and got the new bearing to sorta fit somewhere close to right but it won't last long and it won't work except for maybe 1 to 3 times before it will wear out the messed up machining. Then i, not the factory, will be forced to figure out a machining solution or buy a new shock.
6) While doing that I had noticed a bit of play in the pull rods linkage and decided to grease all the linkage and check those bearings to see if I could ride the bike while I ordered new bushings and bearings or if they were so shot I would have to leave off the bike until the parts came in. ALL the linkage bearings were bone dry. The pull rod bearings were so tight on one side I could barely get put the bushing. The other side was a bit loose. The loose side had 2 rod bearings MISSING from the bearing cage. I work on lots of bikes so I hunted around and found 2 the same size, greased it all and went to reinstall. The bushing WOULD NOT now go through with a full set of bearings. I tried and tried. Would not fit. (Later I tried the new bushing and it would not fit either) So I pulled out the 2 added rod bearings and decided to reinstall. Now I couldn't get the other side, that i almost couldn't get apart, back together! I had to do like someone at the factory did for the first side, i had to remove 2 rod bearings from the cage to get the bushing to fit through.
The only explanation I have is that the press fit for the bearings was machined too close/narrow and whoever installed the bearings at the factory went ahead and pressed them in anyways. That made them deflect/bend just a touch and now the bushing can't fit with all the bearings in place.
NOW FOR THE CURRENT ISSUE
I haven't modified anything electrical. I haven't modified anything in the motor or carb. At about 4 months and about 50-55 hours of run time (as I remember) I have a useless pile of plastic and metal that i paid over $10,000 for (counting all taxes and dealer charges). That's only 3 or 4 hours of riding a week for those math doers out there. For $10,000, I expect more riding time than that.
For people doing math, that's about $2500 a month unless I get it fixed.
I expect more support for $10,000 from the company network than telling me how to spend days working on it myself and telling me that I might void the warranty if I'm not extra careful but still never committing to taking the bike into their shop and letting Beta pay them to fix it or telling me that they will fix it but it'll take time and i might would be better off taking it to another dealer. (the last one was probably being honest)
As for myself and the bike, my likely response is that I will suck it up and keep it no matter what I think of the company because this one bike out of their lineup is so unique. The only bike out there that might compare is one of the new/old Gas Gas Rangers. If I see that they do actually compare, I'll get away from this dealer network ASAP and buy one. But until then, I'll stick with the XTrainer because I'm not gonna bite off my nose to spite my face.
But I can't find any honest reason to recommend them to people any more and I would feel guilty if I didn't warn people what they could be getting into if they buy a Beta.
And no, I still haven't worked all the bugs out of the suspension that is often said to be one of the worst in 20 years. But I have gotten it usable, not good, but usable.