How Much Power Does the 2024 Montesa Cota 4RT 260R Make?

Trials motorcycles are specialty machines designed to conquer the gnarliest off-road terrain imaginable, even where one cannot travel on foot. Some unique aspects about trials bikes compared to their dirt bike counterparts are a lack of a seat, conventional fork, and chassis that’s designed to be hopped and take riders over obstacles of all sizes.

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Engines and the type of power they produce are another aspect that distinguishes trials bikes. Most manufacturers still primarily offer two-strokes, but some such as Beta have thumpers in their lineups. Montesa, on the other hand, has been all four-stroke since 2005 when it introduced the Cota 4RT. From then until 2013, it was a fuel-injected liquid-cooled SOHC four-stroke 249cc single-cylinder engine. In 2014, Montesa increased its displacement to 259cc.

We know trials bikes are designed for instant torque at low rpm, but we hadn’t dynoed one with a four-stroke mill to see exactly what a thumper intended for this type of riding is capable of in terms of empirical data. That changed when we rolled the 2024 Montesa Cota 4RT 260R onto our in-house Dynojet 250i rear-wheel dynamometer, where it made 15.6 hp and 13.4 lb.-ft. of torque—both at low engine speeds of 6,500 rpm and 5,500 rpm, respectively.

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