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Try your local Beta dealer, mine still has them in stock.

OK, time for me to put in my two cents worth. I have an 01 Rev which I bought new and with the exception of the black box going once (early on) the bike has been flawless. I compete in 10 to 13 events a year and practice quite regularly so the bike is well used. Aside from the normal wear and tear; chain, sprocket, tires, breaks etc the bike is super reliable. It runs great, performs excellently and for a bike its age is flawless.

I would like to thank everyone for their compliments and to all those who came to the Green Mountain Plonkers Vermont National. As most of you know it is not easy organizing an event especially a National. I don't know what kind of membership and support other clubs around the country have but with only 14 adult members in our club we had our hands full. Though the club membership was able to do all of the physical labor cutting loop trail and sections we did not have enough bodies to check sections. We had to rely heavily on volunteer checkers from the associated member clubs that make up the New England Trials Association. The bulk of those individuals drove 3, 4 and 5 hours to get to our event to do nothing but check. To those individuals and their families we all owe a great deal of thanks and appreciation. There only motivation for checking is simply the love of the sport. Green Mountain Plonkers

Mainstream? Hugh! not at those prices.

I agree, Mechanix gloves are the best. They are very thin in the palm area so it is as close to bare hands as you can get.

Coincidently, I performed the same task on my Rev 3 this weekend and had the same problem. Only I installed the wider control type pegs. Here is what I did. I removed the peg mounting brackets. I noticed that the bottom edges where a bit nackered up enough (but not a lot mind you) just to make it difficult to slide the peg in. I filed it down quite easily with a file. I put the peg on without the spring and found that the peg pivoted nicely up to a point. On both pegs there was a spot where the bracket rubbed up against a weld. The fix was to round off (file) a very small amount of the bracket. Once that was done the pegs moved nicely. One other comment. There is nothing wrong with the original Beta pegs. They worked fine for me for 3 years and took some tough pounding. It wasn't until my bike fell back from a hieght of 5 feet and the peg landed squarely on a rock that I had to change it. I might add that the peg only bent and didn't break. I was able to straighten it out and saved it as a spear.