RUST magazine: Rust#7
RUST magazine: We’ve a heartfelt – and revealing – report direct from David Knight on the end of his pro career, and where does he go from here…? We take a long and thorough look at KTM and their mid-capacity adventure bikes, the 640 and the 690, and ask (again) where’s the 690 Adventure? Staying with adventure, Michelin have sprung on us a new rugged adventure tyre – we like the look. And our man in France, Chris Evans, finds life after Dakar is actually rather busy…
RUST magazine: We’ve a heartfelt – and revealing – report direct from David Knight on the end of his pro career, and where does he go from here…? We take a long and thorough look at KTM and their mid-capacity adventure bikes, the 640 and the 690, and ask (again) where’s the 690 Adventure? Staying with adventure, Michelin have sprung on us a new rugged adventure tyre – we like the look. And our man in France, Chris Evans, finds life after Dakar is actually rather busy…
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lasts forever. However strong the man, however dedicated, consumed, the<br />
time comes when it’s over. Champion becomes former champion. David<br />
reflects on that in this issue.<br />
For our columnist Chris Evans, years of serving on the Dakar Rally may<br />
well have come to a close. So there’s no more of those flat-out days and<br />
weeks, chasing the rally, bivouac to bivouac, reporting the victories, failures<br />
and the tragedies. Yet, as he’s found, that time is filled so readily – and as<br />
ever is our way, over-filled.<br />
Even <strong>RUST</strong> is an exercise in time. Reaching for a fortnightly publication<br />
schedule in 2016 means we’ll have to move fast. Fast. Faster. Fastest. It’s<br />
nonsense isn’t it? Those Thai villagers know that. You can’t beat time.<br />
So, like those villagers, we need to acknowledge the fact. And stop for a<br />
while. Turn off the engine. And to look, listen, touch and smell. Our dirt bikes,<br />
noisy mad things that they are, do nonetheless bring us closer to nature, to<br />
life. But it’s for us to make the final connection. Do, from time to time, allow<br />
yourself that.
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