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

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Kris Keefer heads to Glen Helen Raceway to break down the 2024 Beta 450 RX. This was Keefer's first time on a four-stroke Beta model, so he made sure to get in some quality seat time in this test. "I was actually quite surprised with this bike." Keefer has been riding a Yamaha YZ450F and Kawasaki KX450 lately so he compared this Beta to those Japanese OEMs. He said this bike does not like to over-rev and it runs better when you short shift it, but it has really easy to use power. Check out Keefer's full list of pros and cons of the stock four-stroke Beta.
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29 сен 2024

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Комментарии : 69

@jonathanclaypool563 3 месяца назад

Would you say it rode beta than you thought?

@jamminjeff37 3 месяца назад

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

@TheRealRenn 3 месяца назад

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 3 месяца назад

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

@SamPaulson-we7of 3 месяца назад

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 3 месяца назад

I dont like the missing side plates. WHY?

@MarcSherwood 3 месяца назад

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

@Sleepy.Time. 3 месяца назад

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

@psyched91 3 месяца назад

LOL

@levileatherman2055 3 месяца назад

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 3 месяца назад

There is more room on the silencer. lol

@Fassfilmz 3 месяца назад

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

@EarthSurferUSA 3 месяца назад

@@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.

@infidelmat 3 месяца назад

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

@donnieburger3721 3 месяца назад

Beta buy a honda

@itspricemusic7654 3 месяца назад

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

@Bobby8451 2 месяца назад

I'm not liking the colors of the bike.

@Makeitliquidfast 3 месяца назад

There all the same now, its the rider.

@EarthSurferUSA 3 месяца назад

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

@johndepperschmidt8984 3 месяца назад

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.

@SOLDOZER 3 месяца назад

That side number plate is a joke.

@shaynebrown131 3 месяца назад

looks like a walmart dirt bike with those plastics lol

@jessewarner5137 3 месяца назад

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

@SOLDOZER 3 месяца назад

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

@jessewarner5137 3 месяца назад

@@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 3 месяца назад

Ur mama a joke

@jimmycrawford3x 3 месяца назад

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

@LEEROY_UK 3 месяца назад

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

@EarthSurferUSA 3 месяца назад

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 3 месяца назад

Jnuk YT. it lost half my write.

@EarthSurferUSA 3 месяца назад

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 3 месяца назад

Stfu newb sure like hearing yourself spewing shit.

@jacobbeal6119 3 месяца назад

Could you guys please test the rx300

@jaredgordon2798 3 месяца назад

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

@EarthSurferUSA 3 месяца назад

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.

@EarthSurferUSA 3 месяца назад

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.

@lw3918 3 месяца назад

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

@oliverdurgen5953 3 месяца назад

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 3 месяца назад

@@oliverdurgen5953 lifelong Honda owner

@zacharysmith7872 3 месяца назад

@@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 3 месяца назад

Where you hesr this??

@lw3918 3 месяца назад

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

@SOLDOZER 3 месяца назад

Why are they not racing outdoors?

@Sleepy.Time. 3 месяца назад

think both Benny and Colt are injured

@omnibud2708 3 месяца назад

Worst looking bike ever

@MX-CO 3 месяца назад

❤¹I like the looks of the Triumph more personally

@jimtitt3571 3 месяца назад

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

@Markjacobs4477 3 месяца назад

@@jimtitt3571 🤦‍♂️ okay Ricky Carmichael

@MX-CO 3 месяца назад

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

@EarthSurferUSA 3 месяца назад

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 3 месяца назад

@@EarthSurferUSA you sound insane

@EarthSurferUSA 3 месяца назад

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 3 месяца назад

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

@robkeller8008 3 месяца назад

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 3 месяца назад

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 3 месяца назад

How many damn comments you gonna make on this? 😂

@denniswilder3014 Месяц назад

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

@EarthSurferUSA 3 месяца назад

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.