TECHNOLOGY ELEVATED'S SMARTCARB
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Feature
One of the main
advantages the
SmartCarb has over the
Beta's stock carburetor
is fuel consumption.
The SmartCarb
produces much better
fuel range.
stuff and gave us added confidence in the resilient
power plant that could tow us around as we linked
sections together. We did not have the opportunity
to put the SmartCarb-equipped bike on the dyno to
test the "10% increase in power" claim, but we were
happy with the more important real-world perfor-
mance we felt after multiple back-to-back compari-
sons over the next few months.
Equally as impressive, the SmartCarb ran ex-
ceptionally well at several different locations and
altitudes. Once we used the external adjuster to
get the setting set that first day, we did not feel the
need to change it regardless of the changing alti-
tude, temperature or weather conditions. The only
complaint we had was that the Beta has a check
engine light that would come on sometimes and it
took us a little while to realize it was not really caus-
ing any problems and the bike was running fine.
To test the claimed 30 percent increase in mile-
age, we did another back-to-back test and started
