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TECHNOLOGY ELEVATED'S SMARTCARB
The Beta 300 RR is a very capable bike, which
edged out the Husqvarna TE 300i fuel-injected
two-stroke in our comparison test earlier this year.
(You can read the comparison here). The Beta
comes standard with a 36mm Keihin PXK carbu-
retor. And as we noted in that story, the engine per-
formance is what helped it come out on top with
most of our test riders. The Keihin does not really
do anything wrong and runs great, so this gave us
a great bike to test the claims for the SmartCarb.
For our initial test, we met the TE engineers at
the MotoVentures rider training facility in Anza,
California. The property sits about 3000 feet above
sea level and features a variety of technical single
track, moto jumps, rock sections and some wide-
open sand washes. We eagerly jumped on the
