PROJECT BIKE REVIEW: BETA’S RR300 X-PRO

We teamed up with Australian off-road icon, Geoff Ballard, to sanity-check Beta’s claim that their all-new RR X-Pro enduro models are now better suited to a wider cross-section of riders and terrain.

A year or two ago, Beta’s up-specced (‘RR Race’) models surprised everybody – Beta included – by outselling their ‘standard’ (RR) models for the first time ever. And that was despite these race-ready machines carrying a $1200-$2000 price-tag premium (depending on capacity) over their RR counterparts. 

So, more sales of pricier bikes … happy days for Beta! What’s to complain about, right?

Right! Except for the fact that several Beta dealers started noticing that a lot of their customers were buying the wrong machine. Many of them simply weren’t fast, fit or experienced enough to take advantage of the RR Race models’ more aggressive, firmer and race-oriented ride, but they weren’t admitting that to themselves.

And despite these Beta dealers’ best efforts to help their customers reign in their egos and accept that they’d be much better suited to a ‘standard’ RR model, average weekend warrior trailriders continued to lay down their hard-earned on a red-white-and-blue Race bike (part of which we reckon had to do with the too-small price differential between the two model-ranges).

This emerging mismatch between customer and bike was precisely why Beta’s 2025 RR X-Pro bikes were designed to be much more than rebranded versions of their RR-model predecessors. With major frame and suspension updates (including an all-new split-function ZF SHC fork), Xtrig Flexfit handlebar mounts, all-new bodywork, 20mm lower seat height, revised rear brake master cylinder, grab-handle for extreme terrain, and a bunch of other tweaks – these RR X-Pro machines were specifically designed to be a better ‘middle-ground’ between Beta’s XTrainer and RR Race model-ranges and, as a result, be better suited to a wider cross-section of riders and terrain.

So, did Beta get their 2025 RR X-Pro models right? Are they fit for purpose as better all-rounders? And is Beta on-the-money when they say one of the eight RR X-Pro models will be best-suited to 70% of riders?

To answer those questions, we teamed up with Aussie enduro icon, Geoff Ballard, and got him to reflect on his few months’ experience aboard Beta’s 2025 RR300 X-Pro two-stroke…