It takes a small company to meet the need - Check this new Beta out...

MxKing809 wrote:

Looks like a 7/8ths model of the larger bike. When will someone make a 1 1/4 size bike for us larger guys?!? They're all made for...

Looks like a 7/8ths model of the larger bike. When will someone make a 1 1/4 size bike for us larger guys?!? They're all made for Bagget and Carmichael......

Titan1 wrote:

Why doesn't a manufacture build an air cooled, carberated, detuned 200 cc 2 stroke or 350 cc four stroke, with an e start, a steal frame...

Why doesn't a manufacture build an air cooled, carberated, detuned 200 cc 2 stroke or 350 cc four stroke, with an e start, a steal frame, basic suspension, and modern "plastics" and ergos...and sell it for $4K-$5K.

Make it bullet proof, cheap, ridable, low maintenance, and make it modern looking (look like a modern mx bike-cool looking) and they would sell a TON of them.

I honestly think that is what the dirt bike market needs...it will get more new riders into the sport, who will eventually move up to higher performance machines and hopefully racing.

RMT wrote:

The only bikes a manufacturer can offer below the $5000 price point needs to sell in HUGE numbers. If not, they actually lose money on them...

The only bikes a manufacturer can offer below the $5000 price point needs to sell in HUGE numbers. If not, they actually lose money on them. Minibikes are a loser. Kids and 250cc quads are a loser. They do it so they can hopefully get a child locked on their brand and also allow a youngster to have the same brand as Daddy. This is why they are also the same bikes for years and years. A lot of of the manufacturers need to farm out the small bikes to other companies or their own factory in a 3rd world country for cheap labor. Always look at your vin # and you will see where that bike was made.

Lets just face it, the days of a decent full size off road bike that you can get for $5k are over. This Beta is as close as you will ever come.