RUST Magazine: RUST #43
It's been a mad couple of months (and more) since the last issue as we've been working overtime on digital projects that should come to fruition very soon. But we've taken time out to get on the bikes as often as we can. And so this issue is still a 128-page cracker – not least because we've got seriously detailed ride reports on the two of the biggest stories in Adventure in 2019 – the amazing Yamaha Tenere 700 and KTM 790 Adventure R – enduro enthusiasts might like to skip the first 40 pages... Talking of enduro, one of KTM's biggest rivals – Beta – just released some of their meanest, bestest enduros yet!
It's been a mad couple of months (and more) since the last issue as we've been working overtime on digital projects that should come to fruition very soon. But we've taken time out to get on the bikes as often as we can. And so this issue is still a 128-page cracker – not least because we've got seriously detailed ride reports on the two of the biggest stories in Adventure in 2019 – the amazing Yamaha Tenere 700 and KTM 790 Adventure R – enduro enthusiasts might like to skip the first 40 pages... Talking of enduro, one of KTM's biggest rivals – Beta – just released some of their meanest, bestest enduros yet!
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2020 BETA ENDURO<br />
GOING FORWARDS: SHARPER, SLIMMER<br />
While Beta have improved year on<br />
year there was no doubt they’ve<br />
needed a revamp. The bikes worked<br />
crazy-good, have been winning world<br />
championships, but they’ve needed an<br />
edgier look and an update on tech to<br />
keep winning in the showrooms. And<br />
going by the 2019 range, the suspension<br />
particularly needed to be improved. It’s<br />
no good having the most competitively<br />
priced motorcycles in the paddock if<br />
owners are then having to spend their<br />
savings on suspension upgrades as a<br />
matter of course.<br />
But the 2020s aren’t just an aesthetic<br />
makeover, nor simply a suspension<br />
upgrade. These 2020s are an all-new<br />
exercise. New frames, new motors, new<br />
bodywork. How they’ve done all this<br />
over an eight-bike range with an R&D<br />
team of less than 30 is some miracle,<br />
albeit, as Fantigini explained, it has been<br />
a three-year operation.<br />
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