Alternate your surroundings | MCN

Revealed: 09 June 2000

Up to date: 19 November 2014

SOME motorcycles create dilemmas. And that is considered one of them. you’re simply nipping throughout the city, so you set for your perfect running shoes, polish your black visor and depart for your perfect going-out denims. In spite of everything, you’re simply nipping throughout the city.

However earlier than you realize it, this mongrel go of trials motorcycle and path motorcycle has you scanning the environment for the merest point out of muckiness. Faculty recs, wasteground or the native park gain magnetic houses. You quickly in finding your self hacking down the closest inexperienced lane or splashing throughout the native ford. You’re nonetheless to your perfect running shoes and denims, now spattered in dust, however someway you don’t care.

That’s the attraction of this new Beta Alp 200. It’s a trials motorcycle reworked right into a path motorcycle through the addition of a larger gasoline tank and a correct seat. But it nonetheless appears like a pedigree cliff-scaling pageant device, with its correct soft-as-you-like Michelin trials tyres and a weight of simplest 107kg. With a four-stroke 200cc engine nicked from the Suzuki DR200 it simplest makes 12bhp, however someway this sluggish hasn’t ever been the sort of snort. There’s additionally a brand new 125 that prices £2850.

Crack the starter button and also you’re flat-out earlier than you realize it, brapping throughout the ratios such as you used to for your six-speed ped. The rear sprocket offers the sport away. This motorcycle is designed to climb.

Flat-out it is going to hit round 60mph and at that pace it’s vibey and strikes round on its blocky trials tyres. However that’s now not what it’s about. Once you’re at the highway you end up status up trials-style together with your knees subsequent to the bars. There’s a seat, in contrast to a pukka trials motorcycle, however it’s nonetheless so low you’ll slightly see via a automobile’s rear window. So that you rise up and get strange seems to be from each and every route.

On the town, its outrageous guidance lock and lengthy trip suspension make it amusing for a place of pothole dodging at the commuter run. However out of the city is the place it’s in its component. It’s going to mean you can trip via rivers, up grass banks and hare down inexperienced lanes.

Simply remember to’ve were given the suitable package otherwise you’ll be wrecking your perfect strides earlier than you realize it…

BETA ALP 200

Value: £3100

Availability: Bavanar: 0208-665-9994

Colors: Black

SPECIFICATION

Engine: 199cc four-stroke unmarried

Energy: 12bhp

Weight: 107kg (235lb)

Status 1/4-mile time/terminal pace (est): 23s, 61mph

Best pace (est): 61 mph

Reasonable mpg/tank capability/vary: 48mpg, 6.5 litres, 70 miles