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beta      motorcycles    -    founded       1904

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Beta is an Italian motorcycle manufacturer, specialising in off-road motorcycles and scooters. 
Click on these links below to access the information 
Exclusive    Detailed    photos    of Jordi    Tarres's    factory    Betas
Exclusive tour of Jordi Tarres's home with in depth interview
Exclusive Interview with Fransesc Tarres and home visit
Exclusive - Visit Jordi Tarres' first home
Exclusive - Sascha Basler's 1987 Beta TR34 Trial restoration
Beta   GS   250   test
Beta , Montesa , Ossa , SWM , Bultaco , Fantic comparision test
1987 Beta TR34 test
1988 Beta TR50 trials test

1989   Beta   Prototype   Jordi   Tarres    bike   
1989 Montesa Cota, Aprilia Climber and Beta TR34 test
1989 +90 Beta Tarres Zero prototype Test

1990 Beta Zero test
1990 Beta Zero test

1991    Beta    Zero     test
1991 Montesa Evasion and Beta Alp test

1992 Beta Zero and Montesa 260 Cota 311 test
1993 50cc Beta and Honda Montesa Shootout

Beta Tr35 test
This is not an exhaustive list of the Beta related articles on this website. Please just have a browse.
Beta are best known for their popular trials bikes. In 2005, they launched a range of enduro  motorcycles using KTM engines. In the 2010 they will launch the new RR series, with a new engine made in-house. Beta motorcycles have been used by world trials champions such as Jordi Tarrés, Dougie Lampkin , Albert Cabestany and Toni Bou.

Beta has its origins in 1904 as a bicycle manufacturing company named "Società Giuseppe Bianchi", originally based in Florence. The company started making motorcycles in 1948. The name Beta comes from the initials of Enzo Bianchi and Arrigo Tosi, who ran the company at that time. Focusing on two-stroke bikes through the 1950s and 1960s, the company started focusing development and production to off-road motorcycles in the 1970s

Beta have produced motorcycles for observed trials since the early 1980s and are now one of the leading manufacturers.[2] Unlike the Trail and Enduro models, the trials bike have used Beta's own engines.

TR240 (1983-4) First trials model, twinshock suspension 125cc, 200cc engines, the majority with reed valve induction.
TR32, (1984-5) Air-cooled, monoshock model, produced in parallel with the twinshock model, same engine as TR240
TR33, (1985-6)
TR34, (1986-9) Very successful trials model, stripey paintwork, 125cc - 260cc engines
TR35, (1989–91) Air-cooled engine series
Zero, (1989–92) Water-cooled monoshock
Synt, (1992-4) Water-cooled monoshock
SuperTrial, (1992-3) Air-cooled engine
Gara, (1993-4)
Techno, (1994-9) 125cc version from 1995

There are many Beta reports on Retrotrials.com. Just choose the report you want to read from the links above or the drop down links and enjoy :)

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