Beta 200RR Race Edition

If any of you saw my thread about trying to find a new 2T bike to get the last of the CA Red Stickers it was a long road to get here. Husky didn't think it was a big deal and probably missed a huge opportunity to sell more bikes. However Beta USA was smart. They knew the demand would still be there and wisely purchased extra 2021 CA Vins and put plans into place to send "late production" bikes here to Commie Land.

How did I find out about this? Simple, I just emailed Beta USA. While KTM North America blew me off and to just wait for a 22, Tim and Frank with Beta took me seriously and kept me in the loop with these late production bikes. I got the call in August about this bike. I called Simi Valley Cycles right away and put the deposit down. That was after I convinced them to look into their pending Beta orders for a bike they didn't know was coming yet. So after 10 months of waiting and hoping, here she is...

I've already bolted some goodies on with more to come. I'll be supporting 7602 Racing with set of his awesome Rad Braces, but for now I've added the FMF TC 2.1 so I'm sparky legal and hand guards, frame guards with grip and front disc cover from my long time supporters at Acerbis USA. And I'm taking it to the Zip-Ty HQ for some suspension and carb magic, plus other things in the works.

Tim is a good guy. The company is committed to customer service and building customer loyalty.

Tim and Beta USA are amazing. I'm just an almost 50yr old support racer and I feel like I've got Factory backing. While I will always love my Huskies I'm really pumped to be on the Beta. Rockdancer, it's like riding a gas powered mountain bike. So light with damn near the power of my old 250, but so much snappier. This bike is carburating really clean for stock jetting.

Yep, P3 makes one for the stock chamber. It's already got desert pin stripes on it from freestyle blip and rip through the creosote. I'm not in a hurry to change too much until I get more time on it. I haven't quite rung it's neck yet though either.

I was looking for a 250tpi bike too at first. But I gotta say I'm happy with the carby so far. If you can get the "rego" for one even the race edition comes with the switch gear and full harness. I don't have indicators but I do have working horn and brake light switches front and rear.

Got my bike back from Zip-Ty on Tuesday. Went with .46 springs up front, no way the stock .42 was gonna work for me. 5.8 out back with a good progressive stack. Added my AXP skid plate last night and the BRP vibration isolated bar clamp/Scotts submount goes on today after work. Then it's off to our work weekend for the first round of the D37 Sprint Enduro series. We have to burn it in a little so after we get it ribboned, we gonna go rip it.

Here's some pics of the work in progress...

Couple more of it buttoned up

Just a follow up after the work and race weekends. This thing makes me feel like a whole new rider. With our 3 distinctly different tests for the Sprint Enduro I got to test it in deep soft sand, 3-4th WFO and into a 90 turn and then another right after, 6th pinned into rock sections, and our 3rd test which was an amusement park ride through rocks, single track and tight spots. It did it all and did it well even with my fat slow butt on board.

During work weekend my son's and I went and rode the 2&3 tests Sunday after setting up on 1 on Saturday. I had so much fun on test 3, I went back out and rode it again. It's been a while since a bike made me feel like a kid again and Beta has just nailed it with this bike.

Well the cherry has been popped! Entered my first race in 2 years and got me a 2nd in a Dual Euro Scramble. I literally installed my graphics and the pipe guard after getting home from a cross country flight on a Friday night, sleep deprived from travel. Was originally going to race Saturday and Sunday but the need for sleep took over and I decided to cruise out Saturday morning and race Sunday only. Here's some shots of it all dolled up in the field