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Download Or to View ISSUE #5 ISSUE #6 ISSUE #7 ISSUE #8 JB’S Instant Factory Set-Up – JB’S First Editorial 2018 beta launch SPECIAL white lightning lighter, more powerful, better handling can the latest betas whitewash the competition? www.rustsports.com bonus feature: endurogp, is it a make or break year? rust investigates... CONTENTS 3 EDITORIAL 16 teenage rampage JBs battling his way through the heat and the flies A few years back we were lamenting the imminent demise of to bring you the 2018 Beta launch... the two-stroke. Now they’re back, and here’s a brand new one... 4 GALLERY 19 they’re all-white now... With Steve Holcombe leading the EnduroGP world Lighter. more powerful and easier to use. This must championship, things are looking good for Beta... make the 2018 Betas better, mustn’t it? 5 gallery 31 what jb wore... In the folder marked ‘Still Life’ we found pictures of this A full run-down on what JB wore on the 2018 Beta little beauty... It works in the eye of this beholder... launch test. Glad they went straight in the wash... 9 GOLD STANDARD 33 ENDUROGP 2017 After winning the E3 title for Beta in 2016, Steve Holcombe Georgia Wells brings you the story so far... continues to go from strength to strength in 2017... Thankfully, stories of the series’ demise remain vastly exaggerated... 11 lighter, more powerful, better handling... The 2017 Betas were good, but the Italian firm continue to push the boundaries ever further... RUST 2018 beta special edition www.rustsports.com editorial The 2018 model year is always about TPI – just quietly – they’re not actually in going to be a tough one, what with command of the 2017 enduro world championship KTM breaking all new ground with (EnduroGP). No, Beta are standing boldly on the top doing their TPI-equipped two-strokes step, as we write, with Steve Holcombe the model of (that’s fuel-injection if you’ve slept blistering speed and studied consistency on his RR300. through the last two or so months) Heck, at the Italian GP, Beta even had a 1-2, with Alex – any manufacturer not orange is Salvini putting a four-stroke Beta alongside Steve’s going to struggle to find a sexier smoker. the hard storyline. And yet Beta are laying Yep, whether you’re a racer, a tester or a manufac- on some heavy punches – big turer you cannot afford to come off the gas; and weight savings, all-new double- while Beta are clearly applying wise heads to keep injector fuel injection for the four-strokes, new bang up to date, they’re also employing young guns clutches, frame updates – and a colour change to keep it pinned. In 2018, even against KTM’s yards just for kicks (red to white). headlining TPI, Beta are still bang on the money. And while KTM have got every right to be proud Boy, they’ve got some fight! came to the Beta test straight off four hard days i of moto-photography in Germany’s Black Forest. It had been 30-something-degrees in Deutsch- land, and the days were up to 15 working hours long with hundreds of kilometres put under the GS’s wheels. In Italy the temperatures ramped up to a blistering high-30-something-degrees, it got super-muggy, and beginning-to-end we put in seven hours on the bikes in the one day – hey, with eight models to test you gotta do the time. I was of course shattered by the end; it took a whole day of sofa-surfing to come back to normal service. But it was worth it. And you know, those Betas rocked, after some detail upgrades for the 2017 model year, this year the R&D team were going all-guns-blazing, again; they’ve made some big changes and not one seems for the worse. How their modest number of a dozen or so engineers cope with the workload is anyone’s guess, but surely they must need sofa- surfing time, too. And in the middle of an already hectic round of specification changes, Beta built an all-new 125 as well. www.rustsports.com gallery flying high You would not believe how humble Beta were about leading the EnduroGP world championship. You would forgive them for shouting it from the rooftops over Florence, but instead the fact was announced with what seems to be typical Tuscan restraint. Like any professional race team they know it’s about the positions at the end of the year that really count. At the end of the last season this man, Steve Holcombe, was the E3 world champion, third in the overall EnduroGP rankings. Can he stay ahead of the pack to the end of 2017? Time will tell, but by heck he’s in formidable form – and the RR300 is one serious bit of kit… Image: Beta www.rustsports.com gallery still life We smiled when we saw the folder ‘Still Life’ on the Beta 2018 memory stick, the Tuscan’s being unwittingly romantic perhaps. But their new RR125 is a work of art, and clearly passion, and for youth racers it stands to be a very rewarding ride, it really was very good. And clearly very newsworthy as evidenced by Steve Holcombe’s quick-spin ride video rapidly topping 400,000 views. Yep, 125s forever, it would seem… Image: Beta www.rustsports.com back issues issues 1-12 ISSUE #1 ISSUE #2 ISSUE #3 ISSUE #4 Introduction to RUST Magazine. The 2016 Beta and KTM model THE 2016 Husqvarna model Race test of 2015 250EXC and 2015 KTM 250EXC vs 2015 ranges tested. Warren visits the launch. The KTM 250XC-F 2015 Husqvarna TE350 on the Yamaha WR250F shootout. 2016 Motocross of Nations. tested. The Suzuki V-Strom 650 Grappe de Cyrano. Testing the Trail test of the Chinese made Pitgirl rounds up the 2015 EWC and Pitgirl’s analysis of the 2015 Honda CB500X Adventure. WK400 Trail and columns from Season, plus columns from Si EWC Season. Columns from Pitgirl on beating the offf-season Chris Evans, David Knight and Melber and Rick Kemp... Chris Evans, Gary Freeman blues and columns from JB and and Si Melber... Gary Freeman... Gary Freeman... www.rustsports.com To view our back issues (FOR FREE!) go to www.rustsports.com and scroll down through the issue list. Click on the icons Issue #8 for either a PDF download or to view ISSUE #5 ISSUE #6 ISSUE #7 ISSUE #8 JB’s Instant Factory Set-Up – JB’s first editorial. Interview with Interview with David Knight OBE. Yamaha’s ‘new’ WR250 tested, a yumpu version. Suspension for the amateur Jonny Walker. Dispatches – The What happened to the KTM 690 the Royal Enfield Himalayan rider. TRF main-men Mario TRF answers back. Profile of Adventure? 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