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He’s saying they have taken a few years to get to this point where Kenny is comfortable enough to say it’s good enough this year….how can we forget the struggles with suspension (blown shock in the whoops) hiring Chiz to help test and the apparent magic with a factory transmission….he didn’t just jump on the bike and ride it the way it is this year…he jumped on a bike that they had been testing and improving over a few years to get it to the point where KR said good enough…

I think we will find out it it is a Team Kawasaki US management problem or really a bike problem here very soon. There is a new KX450 coming and I would assume Sexton and Tickle have been allowed to ride it. If Chase thinks this new bike can be better than the outgoing bike, I believe he will stay with his lucrative $$ Factory Kawi contract. If he still chooses to exit Factory Kawi, that tells me it is a Team problem, not a bike problem. As others have mentioned, this team reminds me a lot of Factory Yamaha...

It won’t matter what bike he is on til he gets his mental in order.

Update, betausa service tech says this is normal wear and not a cause for concern

Remove the shine from the anodize inside the fork tube bores on the clamps with some sandpaper and they'll grip the tubes a lot better. You don't have to completely remove the anodize, just scuff it up.

What you're showing is not much difference in height and nothing to worry about. Put the forks at the same height. There's no reason to make the axle free at the expense of different fork heights (and therefore different bottom-out position, different stiffness on each leg, different adjustment height for rake, etc.). If the fork heights are dramatically different to get the axle to fit freely (like 5x that amount), then something is wrong internally in the forks and you should have them checked.

I use the lines 100%….

FWIW the Beta 450 has been much more durable and reliable than my '21 KX450.

The little issues with the 24's are just that, little. I'm at 23 hours and haven't had an issue since I loctite'd the engine nuts, installed a high quality battery and got the 2025.5 map update. It stalled on me in one corner since the update and that was mostly on me. The 450RX is a solid bike that just has/had some small teething issues. I'll take those all day long as Beta is head and shoulders above any other manufacturer when it comes to backing their product. Seriously, what other company sends out updated bar mounts to previous year...

Check your fuel filter that is in the tank. My bike was stalling easy during a race last weekend. I though that I may have been doing something wrong because the bike is easy to stall. But In my second to last moto of the day the bike sputtered to a stop in the last turn and would not restart. Ultimately it was crack in the fuel filter in the tank. So, as the pump is pulling fuel through the line, the crack in the filter is pushing the fuel back into the tank and not through the system to...

I'm trying out the leaner mixture hack tonight. Jared said he's in contact with Beta regarding the battery voltage / stalling, I haven't heard anything back yet. I'll add updates here when I get them. One person sent me a DM saying to check the Cam Chain tensioner. That's on my radar too, but I don't have any irregular cam chain noise and I don't know if a malfunctioning cam chain tensioner would only show symptoms after an hour of riding. Hopefully we can get these bikes figured out because I'm really liking mine!