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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MELTING POT<br />
Well, the BMW Motorrad International<br />
GS Trophy 2016 in Northern Thailand<br />
was a roaring success. Seven days<br />
of fun and games centered around<br />
beasting monster R1200GSs over<br />
rough terrain. As always the GSs were<br />
dropped, thrashed, up-ended, even<br />
endo-ed (big time a Team China<br />
hardman) and as always you could<br />
pick them up, hit the starter button<br />
and on they’d go. Of course the resale<br />
value will have taken a knock, but it’d<br />
still be a runner.<br />
This shot kind of encapsulates the<br />
spirit. That’s Jolandie Rust (from South<br />
Africa – and hey, cool surname!)<br />
beaming away in centre-shot, the<br />
first-ever female marshal for the GS<br />
Trophy in the year we had the first-ever<br />
female team. All the girls had a ball<br />
and proved themselves more than<br />
equal to the men. Meanwhile in the<br />
foreground Team France’s Julien Batier<br />
is looking to rescue Team Brazil’s<br />
Sandro Ceratti‘s GS which is taking an<br />
impromptu rest on the Ho Chi Min Trail.<br />
Look out for the next issue of <strong>RUST</strong>,<br />
we’ll have the full story there.<br />
Photo: BMW
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