Beta Riders Club Discussion Forum

Finally made the long-planned transition from Austrian pumpkin to the Italian clean mean red machine. Loving it!
Keen to throw some trials tires on and see how it goes at the trials club.

Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_7UcCLNXPg



and a bit of plug for the guys where i bought the bike, http://www.xtremeendurodirtbikes.com/. above and beyond the call of duty in so many ways guys!

Nice review. You are pretty much spot on.

The only thing on mine that has irritated me at times after 1.5 years is the lower ground clearance but the lower seat height makes up for it. Finally gave up on polymer skid plates and put an EE alu plate and all is good.

Overall it has been my all time favorite bike.

were the polymer ones breaking? i strongly suspect i'll need to get a solid one, and a linkage guard, as we do a lot of logs, rocks and concrete pipes. i'm bound to get it wrong few times and come down hard on those frame rails.

betajuice wrote:were the polymer ones breaking? i strongly suspect i'll need to get a solid one, and a linkage guard, as we do a lot of logs, rocks and concrete pipes. i'm bound to get it wrong few times and come down hard on those frame rails.

Yes broke the stocker and then the TM design has inferior coverage and also broke

Enmerdeur wrote:

betajuice wrote:were the polymer ones breaking? i strongly suspect i'll need to get a solid one, and a linkage guard, as we do a lot of logs, rocks and concrete pipes. i'm bound to get it wrong few times and come down hard on those frame rails.

Yes broke the stocker and then the TM design has inferior coverage and also broke

Ah.. the TM design one broke too.. hmm . I have my enduro engineering skid plate and it's working well has big gouges from rocks but no movement.. the force pipe skidplate guard looks to be great with the fastway linkage guard.. but you'll definitely pay more.. may be worth it though.. I have the flatland ktm 300 stock pipe guard and the enduro engineering skid plate.. and it's pretty good...at waaay less money. I have the obielink link guard to go on but just didn't put it on yet.. I am for guards and protection.. but as far as the link goes.. I pounded the hell out of my link on my cr 250.. no guards on the link for 13 yrs or so and no problems.. so the link guard for the beta hasn't been a high priority.. still the fastway.. or even the little cheaper slavens link guard look good.. but I'm going to put on the obielink one that runs around $40 bucks or so and see how that works first..

Betajuice thats some nice skills there! Some of that rocky stuff looks like my home turf and I can say for sure that plastic skid plates will not cut it.

I disagree about the plastic skid plate.
I have a CrossPro (same as TMD) that is serving very well. There are so many scrapes and gouges in it that I can't imagine an aluminium skid plate could take. There is nothing other then rocks here.

Betajuice may consider doing another plug for the FORCE skid plates. They offer some neat stuff for the Beta.

Thats exactly what I've been running and its saved big $$ in damages. Polymer has its + but it flexes more so the frame tubes can get dented unless you add some buffer like rubber hose. It also flows, and splits on the outside edges with impacts there. I've had several Hydes and while pretty good, if you hit stuff every day like doing this XTraining you need more.

Balkan boy wrote:I disagree about the plastic skid plate.
I have a CrossPro (same as TMD) that is serving very well. There are so many scrapes and gouges in it that I can't imagine an aluminium skid plate could take.

The TMD leaves the frame tubes by the footpegs exposed compared to the stocker and the EE. I have a nice big dent in my frame tube due to that lack of coverage. It also eventually split at the rear mounting point.

Enmerdeur wrote:The TMD leaves the frame tubes by the footpegs exposed compared to the stocker and the EE. I have a nice big dent in my frame tube due to that lack of coverage. It also eventually split at the rear mounting point.

I do agree with that.

It's not the frame, but the gusset. This was a big hit at 60-70km/h straight into a hidden rock. There are marks on the other side in the same place.