RUST magazine: Rust#10
RUST magazine: We go 700km on a KTM 450EXC! Baja on a BMW R60/6… Chris Evans buys a new bike. In the history of journalism we’re not sure we’ve ever heard of a journo buying a new bike – and especially not at list price. Chris Evans could then be creating a world first, not just a personal one. Obviously it makes for a harrowing account – and a must read. As well we take a 2016 KTM 450EXC for a long distance test: 700km in four-days – did it survive? Did we like it?! And last but not least, we welcome a feature contribution from brilliant Australian photo-journalist Thomas Wielecki, who took a 1974 BMW R60/6 the length of Baja and back (and later circled USA on it). He took his wife, too. Surprisingly, they’re still together… It’s a super-pretty, super-technicolour issue. We think you’ll like it! You might even love it…
RUST magazine: We go 700km on a KTM 450EXC! Baja on a BMW R60/6…
Chris Evans buys a new bike. In the history of journalism we’re not sure we’ve ever heard of a journo buying a new bike – and especially not at list price. Chris Evans could then be creating a world first, not just a personal one. Obviously it makes for a harrowing account – and a must read. As well we take a 2016 KTM 450EXC for a long distance test: 700km in four-days – did it survive? Did we like it?! And last but not least, we welcome a feature contribution from brilliant Australian photo-journalist Thomas Wielecki, who took a 1974 BMW R60/6 the length of Baja and back (and later circled USA on it). He took his wife, too. Surprisingly, they’re still together…
It’s a super-pretty, super-technicolour issue. We think you’ll like it! You might even love it…
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Enduro<br />
them. In the 1970s and 1980s that’s all we rode, that was<br />
unless you were some kind of a CCM-BSA nut, or could put<br />
up with the overweight and underpowered world of Japanese<br />
air-cooled thumper trail bikes (you know, TT Yamahas,<br />
XR Hondas – yawn). It took a special kind of guy to love<br />
those, typically older, big into his engineering. But if you<br />
liked speed, heck, why bother, two-strokes ruled.<br />
So I still struggle with finding enthusiasm for the fourstrokes,<br />
they’re simply<br />
each ride of these lates<br />
more and more, and th<br />
appreciate. But 450s a<br />
beating me up on that,<br />
way that gets my atten<br />
eye-watering speed, th<br />
take notice.
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