Keefer Tests the 2024 Beta 450 RX: "I was actually quite surprised with this bike."

[@Sleepy.Time.]

get someone from Beta on camera to explain how they expect people to fit a three digit number on those side plates

[@psyched91]

LOL

[@levileatherman2055]

Look the same size as a gas gas. Husky.. or KTM. Betta not hate on beta .. electric bikes in the line up coming soon

[@EarthSurferUSA]

There is more room on the silencer. lol

[@Fassfilmz]

Over in Europe its not required that you put your numbers on the side plates

[@EarthSurferUSA]

@@levileatherman2055 electric bikes, (and the 4-stroke), is pushed by a dictatorship called the EPA. And new companies making a new dirt bike, (Triumph for a great example, who never made a dirt bike), are getting paid our tax dollars, (called subsidies) to build that electric bike. It is called economic fascism, and it is not fair competition with free enterprise. That is why we are seeing the Jap 4-strokes coming down in price by a couple or more grand, to make it harder for those cheating companies with their communistic hands out. You, (If you pay taxes) are paying for the development of that electric bike right now. Government now tells us what to make, and what to buy. The sport may go out of business, which is the direction we are in now.

[@johndepperschmidt8984]

Hope Kris gets time to try some adjustments and setup. Raising the forks, bars and grips, pegs, check engine mount bolts, tires, fork oil etc.

[@infidelmat]

Thak you for saying Beta, and not Beetah like so many do 😅

[@jonathanclaypool563]

Would you say it rode beta than you thought?

[@jamminjeff37]

Pretty much everything Kris said , Beta and Benny addressed on the 25… curious how the 25 will be

[@LEEROY_UK]

Most people are raising the forks a bit on these to help the cornering

[@EarthSurferUSA]

Every corner has a berm, and it is hard to turn a tall bike on anything else. I could rail a berm on my Harley Sportster. You can also reduce your rear end sag to help cornering, but that makes a taller bike too, which sucks for cornering. bikes

[@EarthSurferUSA]

Jnuk YT. it lost half my write.

[@F22raptornz]

Could you guys please test the rx300

[@jaredgordon2798]

I love the look but if your into changing color schemes good luck lol. With they would being back silver rims

[@EarthSurferUSA]

Pssss---it is all the "pros" know how to do today. Maybe play with a suspension clicker, and change color/graphics. What do we expect from a school system that dropped science and math (taught correctly back then), and replaced those productive entities with arts and crafts? You get the new, brain dead MXA. "Look at the pretty colors!" Bummer for our future.

[@jimmycrawford3x]

Is BETA not running outdoors??? PS: nice Kit

[@lw3918]

I've heard about durability problems with the Beta's.

[@oliverdurgen5953]

they are definitely on the lower end with that. They aren't as good as a Japanese motorcycle, for sure... If you really. really care about the quality aspect, buy a Honda. With that said, I'd still buy one. Any major brand from US, Germany, Japan, England, Italy, France, Spain, and even Korea, is worth your money. Everything is pretty good these days. If you like the new Beta's, get one. It'll be fine. If you are worried about it. Buy a Honda or a Yamaha.

[@lw3918]

@@oliverdurgen5953 lifelong Honda owner

[@zacharysmith7872]

@@oliverdurgen5953 I have hondas and a 16 beta. The hondas are no better or worse. If anything, the Sherco I have is better than the others, but not by much.

[@Mac_Simiser]

Where you hesr this??

[@lw3918]

@Mac_Simiser Around the racing/riding world. Have 2 buddy's that are really unhappy.

[@SOLDOZER]

Why are they not racing outdoors?

[@Sleepy.Time.]

think both Benny and Colt are injured

[@Makeitliquidfast]

There all the same now, its the rider.

[@EarthSurferUSA]

It was always the rider, more than the bike anyway.

[@EarthSurferUSA]

How do you know if a bike is too tall? The people "testing", (not really today, just a sales brochure), will never show themselves getting on the damn thing.

[@smokinjoeb3926]

Stfu newb sure like hearing yourself spewing shit.

[@SOLDOZER]

That side number plate is a joke.

[@shaynebrown131]

looks like a walmart dirt bike with those plastics lol

[@jessewarner5137]

Why’s a side number plate size important to you? 😂

[@SOLDOZER]

@@jessewarner5137 Well....so I dont burn the shit out of my leg for starters.

[@jessewarner5137]

@@SOLDOZER mid pipe has a heat shield where your leg would make contact…. You riding around laying on the seat with your legs up and back in a Superman position???

[@Asaphunnna]

Ur mama a joke

[@Justhere17]

Buy our bike so you can destroy your muffler on first crash and spend more money 😃

[@MX-CO]

❤¹I like the looks of the Triumph more personally

[@jimtitt3571]

You mean you buy a race bike based on the graphics? You've a lot to learn.

[@Markjacobs4477]

@@jimtitt3571 🤦‍♂️ okay Ricky Carmichael

[@MX-CO]

@jimtitt3571 I'm not buying either just like the looks of the Triumph better

[@EarthSurferUSA]

All they did was copy somebody else's designs, probably with tax payer money to come out with a electric bike next,=---for the EPA that most likely gave them our money to bulid the bike. Now, Cannondale did not copy anybody and we built in PA. USA. But MXA helped destroy the self sufficient company in 2001

[@Markjacobs4477]

@@EarthSurferUSA you sound insane

[@donnieburger3721]

Beta buy a honda

[@EarthSurferUSA]

How does it corner, berms to off camber? How does it take the bumps, (forget that, there are no bumps today, so you have no idea). How are the brakes and shifting? Tires? (the only thing I used to disagree with MXA about, as i am in Michigan. But not today.). How are the ergonomics, (too tall, we now skip that detail). Forget reliability testing. These tests today, are just sales brochures. You won't know a bike today, until you buy it and figure out all the bugs yourself. Just put a pic of the bike up man. We won't know anything else anyway,---from the "professionals" we have today in the media. You serve--the factories. Not the people who buy the bikes.

[@Bobby8451]

I'm not liking the colors of the bike.

[@EarthSurferUSA]

The bike is too tall, but MXA does not complain about that anymore, so they get taller, as if that is desirable for cornering. The prices are too high, sales are the lowest in USA history and some brands will stop production You might not be able to get parts in 5 years.

[@jessewarner5137]

How many damn comments you gonna make on this? 😂

[@denniswilder3014]

Beta has been around for over a 100 years and still have parts for bikes built in the 70s. The benefits of a smaller company is there parts support for there brand

[@TheRealRenn]

The color scheme is hideous in my opinion. I'm sure there are others whose loins will start twitching like a wounded lizard when they see the bike though.

[@jpesicka492]

Haha. It’s okay for me the lack of plastic with the exposed exhaust that looks most different to me.

[@SamPaulson-we7of]

Yeah the looks are definitely polarizing. It’s flashy for sure, colors I like but the shape of the plastics are off somehow. Back fender doesn’t look long enough, side number plate not big enough. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@SOLDOZER]

I dont like the missing side plates. WHY?

[@MarcSherwood]

TBH now that almost everyone gets decal kits that cover all plastics, how much does the stock color really matter?

[@EarthSurferUSA]

Why did everybody go to a high handlebar freestyle set up, starting in the mid 90's when freestyle got big? For the same reason why most riders corning stinks today? Lower the bike, lower the bats to the late 80's when we were smarter,---and enjoy the ride so much more while crashing less. Talking form experience with both,----kids.

[@shereemitch]

steel frame KYB and stiff ???? WTF What Ever

[@robkeller8008]

Oh it is, i have one with about 3 hours on it, i cant even ride it, its like riding a brick, i want to like the bike but its crazy harsh

[@EarthSurferUSA]

Who designs the plastic for modern dirt bikes today? Students from the "Batman School of Art"? Please get that abstract art of my functional dirt bike. Nope? I did it myself.

[@omnibud2708]

Worst looking bike ever