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Well, where to start? What a bike it has been! Have tried to sell it a couple of times but wasn’t prepared to give it away, so at 250hrs I decided to keep it & fully rebuild the motor.
I removed the motor myself & dropped it to my mate Nate, mechanical whizkid, for the mains, etc. I checked the starter, did some other maintenance & cleaned the power valve, ready to reinstall the donk when Nate had worked his magic.
I used a TSP rebuild kit which Nate said wasn’t perfect - some odd-shaped gaskets & not all gaskets included, apparently. Uncoated Pro-X piston. He rebuilt the water pump & replaced a bent (!!) power valve actuator rod while the engine was torn down. It took a few hours & following the workshop manual to get it all zipped up. Started last night fourth kick and sounds so quiet. The vibrations are down noticeably, too - not that they were ever bad. Nate did say the mains were getting ‘grumbly’ & there was the beginnings of vertical rod movement, so for all you Beta 2-t riders (joke - no-one comes here anymore), 250hrs is a good bench mark for a trail-ridden machine. Nate said the crank was about as good as he’s seen, so I got a Monday build bike! He could only get the crank a little ‘truer’ when refreshing it.
I ride the bike almost exclusively at Sydney’s 2 hard enduro temples, so it isn’t the best cosmetically after 262hrs, but who cares? I sold my Ohlins carts & am about to go back to KYB after sourcing a pair of unicorn 2010 TC250 bolt-ons. Yeew! Will be racing the 2 NSW rounds of AHEC on the bike, so nice to have a ‘new’ one!
Good - chassis, rideability, balance, motor, traction, build quality, ease of sourcing spares, starter motor.
Bad - front loom has failed twice & wasn’t replaced under warranty (bike was out of warranty), but it’s a known fault so Beta Australia gave me a decent discount, steering lock.
I can’t justify an $8k changeover for a 2023 Factory - so the 2020 will have to do for the next little while..
I removed the motor myself & dropped it to my mate Nate, mechanical whizkid, for the mains, etc. I checked the starter, did some other maintenance & cleaned the power valve, ready to reinstall the donk when Nate had worked his magic.
I used a TSP rebuild kit which Nate said wasn’t perfect - some odd-shaped gaskets & not all gaskets included, apparently. Uncoated Pro-X piston. He rebuilt the water pump & replaced a bent (!!) power valve actuator rod while the engine was torn down. It took a few hours & following the workshop manual to get it all zipped up. Started last night fourth kick and sounds so quiet. The vibrations are down noticeably, too - not that they were ever bad. Nate did say the mains were getting ‘grumbly’ & there was the beginnings of vertical rod movement, so for all you Beta 2-t riders (joke - no-one comes here anymore), 250hrs is a good bench mark for a trail-ridden machine. Nate said the crank was about as good as he’s seen, so I got a Monday build bike! He could only get the crank a little ‘truer’ when refreshing it.
I ride the bike almost exclusively at Sydney’s 2 hard enduro temples, so it isn’t the best cosmetically after 262hrs, but who cares? I sold my Ohlins carts & am about to go back to KYB after sourcing a pair of unicorn 2010 TC250 bolt-ons. Yeew! Will be racing the 2 NSW rounds of AHEC on the bike, so nice to have a ‘new’ one!
Good - chassis, rideability, balance, motor, traction, build quality, ease of sourcing spares, starter motor.
Bad - front loom has failed twice & wasn’t replaced under warranty (bike was out of warranty), but it’s a known fault so Beta Australia gave me a decent discount, steering lock.
I can’t justify an $8k changeover for a 2023 Factory - so the 2020 will have to do for the next little while..
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