RUST magazine: 2017 Beta Special
RUST magazine: JB braved the heat of Italy in July, (poor thing…) and travelled to Beta’s home turf just outside Florence to bring you all the details of the latest 2017 offerings from the Italian company with an 111-year history… With the RR300 and RR430 achieving great success currently in the hands of Steve Holcombe, Alex Salvini and Johnny Aubert, the small Italian firm are continuing to go from strength to strength… Could this be the new Red Dawn?
RUST magazine: JB braved the heat of Italy in July, (poor thing…) and travelled to Beta’s home turf just outside Florence to bring you all the details of the latest 2017 offerings from the Italian company with an 111-year history… With the RR300 and RR430 achieving great success currently in the hands of Steve Holcombe, Alex Salvini and Johnny Aubert, the small Italian firm are continuing to go from strength to strength… Could this be the new Red Dawn?
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Enduro<br />
LESS SMOKE,<br />
LONGER LIFE<br />
EVERY YEAR WE ask the same question –<br />
when will the end come for two-strokes?<br />
As surely the ever-tightening vehicle<br />
emission regulations will bring the end<br />
sooner rather than later. This topic came<br />
up again at <strong>Beta</strong>’s launch.<br />
And there was good news. <strong>Beta</strong> have<br />
squeezed their two-strokes past Euro 4<br />
which comes into effect later this year, which<br />
means in theory their two-strokes have a<br />
reprieve at least through to 2020, when<br />
Euro 5 may (or may not) come into force.<br />
To pass Euro 4 they’ve had to fit a more<br />
restrictive exhaust, with catalyzer, but it<br />
seems they are able to supply a traditional<br />
expansion chamber for competition<br />
purposes, so business as usual.<br />
Credit to <strong>Beta</strong>, too, for last year they<br />
adopted an automatic oil injection system<br />
(autolube as Yamaha used to call it) on their<br />
RR models. Back in the day such systems<br />
were cable operated via a second cable that<br />
ran off the throttle. <strong>Beta</strong>’s system is more<br />
two-strokes
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