RUST magazine: Rust#2

Enduro
minium engine bolts in place of steel ones in
low-stress areas; a polyamide plastic skidplate;
improvements to the air-filter box; minor chassis
and suspension mods; and the adoption of the
clear tank.
I take my hat off to Beta for swimming against
the tide of conformity by picking their own capacity
classes. This clearly makes much more sense from
a consumer point of view than simply adhering to
some arbitrary capacity limit set more than a
decade earlier.
What it also means is that Beta can fine-tune
their machinery to build the sort of bike customers
actually want… and that’s exactly what they’ve
done. Rather than consider them in capacity order,
instead I’m going to sort them into ‘Racing’ and
‘All Round’ categories. That’s not to say you can’t