VOLUME ISSUE MAY , P99
T
he pro supercross and motocross ranks
might have snuffed out two-stroke
competition almost entirely, but the die-
hards never loosened their grip on the premix.
Two-stroke development maintained a pulse
throughout the four-stroke revolution, largely
in thanks to Yamaha and KTM, and ironically
it's only now, nearly two decades after factory
teams shifted their focus to four-strokes, that
we're seeing the emergence of a new open-
class contender in the camless ranks. The
300cc two-stroke—an already iconic weapon in
the world of off-road competition—has made its
way into the motocross scene with MX-specific
offerings from major manufacturers, KTM and
Beta. Italian manufacturer TM also offers the
MX300 ES 2T, and there are also some slick
big-bore kits out there for your 250, but in this
THE BETA 300 RX AND KTM 300 SX GO HEAD-TO-HEAD, TOE-TO-TOE
IN OUR "OPEN-CLASS" TWO-STROKE MOTOCROSS DUEL
BY RYAN NITZEN I PHOTOGRAPHY BY KIT PALMER
