Beta Alp 200 (2013)

“It can’t do anything—and certainly not well,” a friend says about it. He owns a 2014 himself and strongly recommended the mini Beta to me. “It doesn’t suspend well. It doesn’t brake well. It has no power. But on our trails it’s the best normal bike. Our wild trial days are long gone—but this is where the Alp is the most fun.”

The key, of course, is “our trails.” Mostly in Italy—like the Western Alps, Liguria, or Piedmont. Also very steep climbs and descents in Lombardy near Lake Iseo, where sometimes even MTB races are signposted.

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