Hey guys, one of the questions on the Q&A I launched recently was, which bike would I buy if my budget wasn't a constraint? After getting some questions from some of you, I thought it would be useful to do a thorough analysis on the market and better explain my choice. So let's see which bike is the best 302 stroke and rural bike in 2020. For this buyers guide, we'll compare the KTM EXC 300 TPI 6-day edition, the Skvarnat-T300i Jarvis edition, the Beda 300RR Race Edition, the Shurko SE300 Factory Edition, and the TM EN300FIES. Alright, each bike in five different categories. Retail price, equipment, mini all the extra parts that are not made in-house by the manufacturer, innovation, meaning all the technological features made in-house by the manufacturer, after-sale support, and maintenance costs. You might wonder why I didn't include performance in this analysis. Since I'm not actually testing the bikes, I cannot give you any feedback about how each bike feels personally. Plus, let's face it, every single brand in this buyers guide has won a World End World Championship. So performance isn't really at stake here, so I'm just giving you feedback from a buyer's perspective. The points will be awarded according to each bike position in each category. We are comparing five bikes, so last place gets one point, and first place gets five points. At the end, the Beda has most points, wins. Very simple. Let's get the buyers guide started with a retail price, which is pretty straight forward. In last place, as the most expensive, we have the Sqvarna 300 Ti, Jarvis Edition, with a retail price of $11,500. In fourth place is the KTM 300 EXC TPI 6-day edition, with a retail price of $11,000. The TM 300 FIES cuts $9,995 and comes third. In second comes the SQvarna 300 SE Factory Edition at a retail price of $9,900. And finally, with the lowest retail price, and as the winner of this category, we have the Beda 300RR Race Edition at $9,500. I decided to use the average retail prices in the US, because it's one of the most important markets for each of these brands. And each brand has to ship a great number of bikes across the same distance. In the Portuguese market, there were some discrepancies on the retail price that could be explained for the small yearly sales number for each brand. So the Beda gets 5 points, the SQvr, the TM gets 3 points, the KTM gets 2, and the SQvr gets only 1 point. Now, let's move to the equipment. Bottom in the list, we have the KTM 6 days in the SQvarna Jarvis Edition, both equipped with WP suspensions, but the SQvr has a small advantage since it comes with a front disc card as standard. In a real close fight for second, we have the TM and the Beda, both with XL rims and KYB front forks. The Beda takes the edge because it has a sash rear shock. Shurko gets the top step of the podium with KYB front forks, KYB rear shock, XL rims, and a largest fuel tank of the bunch, with a capacity of 10.4 liters. To be clear about the score in this category, namely the suspensions. I think WP suspensions are good suspensions if you ride them on a hard-end rule scenario. But when you ride them on a faster pace, they lack the bottoming resistance that in my opinion they should have. This usually implies that you have to spend an additional amount of money to customize and improve the suspensions on a broader setting in order to ride safely and comfortably in any scenario. The KYB suspensions on the other hand don't require any additional customization besides the one available on the suspensions clickers and have a great performance on a broad number of riding scenarios, including hard-end rule. So if stock-form suspensions have to undergo additional customization besides the one available, which means extra costs. Do I consider them any good? Plenty and simple, no. If you sell them as the best machines on the market, it doesn't make any sense that they only perform well on certain riding scenarios. These are the standings after this category. The Beeta has 9 points, the Shurko is tied with the Beeta with 9 points as well, the TM has 6 points, and the KDM and the Husqvarna are on the bottom with 3 points each. Let's move to innovation. In last place, we have the Beeta race edition equipped with only the Beeta progressive valve system and the late counterbalancing shaft. In fourth place, we have the Shurko factory edition with the electronic valve system, which has been a real handful to KTM and Husqvarna in terms of performance. Shurko has repeatedly shown that its 300 is right there next to the TPI performance on hard-end rule grounds. The TM shows up in third, giving a good run for Pierre-Rermobilies money, being the second manufacturer to introduce the injection technology on the two-stroke engine. But we'll give the H to KTM since they have the TPI's reliability more consolidated, the KTM wins the second place. In first place, we have the Shurkovarna, which is identical to the KTM, but has a composite carbon fiber subframe, which makes it the most innovation-filled bike of the bunch. These are the current standings. The Shurko leads with 11 points, followed by the Beeta with 10 points. The TM feels the current third place with 9 points, the Husqvarna gets in the fourth place with 8 points, and the KTM is at the bottom with 7 points. The next category is after-sale support. In this category, the TM falls behind for having the smallest network of dealerships scattered around a globe, which will make any issue in the after-sale harder to fix, whether it's warranty problems or having access to spare parts, since TM also suffers from lack of after-market parts. In fourth place, we have the Beeta network falling just a little bit behind Shurko's network, which gets third place. The Shurko network and presence has been growing in the last few years, mainly are of Europe, such as the US and Australia. Leading this category is a KTM group, with KTM spearheading the list. The Skvarna takes second, since it takes advantage of the KTM's network and presence. The after-sale category has left the standings in quite an interesting standoff, where 4 bikes can still win the buyer's guide. Shurko still leads with 14 points, then we have Beeta, KTM and Skvarna tied in second with 12 points, and at the end, TM with 10 points. Last but not least, let's go to maintenance costs. I checked how much would cost the same genuine parts across all brands and base myself according to that. In the bottom again is TM, which is the most expensive by far. In fourth place, for my surprise, we have the Beeta. Filling third and second places, we have the Skvarna and KTM, while the Shurko comes out on top with the lowest costs on genuine parts. With all categories discussed, the final standings are the following. Not surprisingly, the TM finishes in the fifth place, with 11 points. The Beeta didn't score many points in the last categories, which made the Italian pony drop to fourth place with 14 points. Rising on the standings, thanks to KTM, the Skvarna climbed to the bottom step of the podium with 15 points. KTM finishes as a runner-up with 16 points. Our winner is the Shurko SE300 factory edition with 19 points. So guys, I tried to be as objective as I could possibly be, but don't forget that this is still my opinion. We can have completely different views on what's better or worse, depending on each category. Also, don't forget that there's nothing like test riding a bike. At the end, you might even love the bike that you were least expecting. Hope you liked the video and that it helped you made a thoughtful and well-informed purchase. Don't forget to like the video and subscribe to the channel.