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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suspension is causing the bike to kick and<br />
hop during the initial part of the stroke it<br />
makes the bike harsh on the handlebars,<br />
it hurts your wrists and arms and makes the<br />
bike feel unstable.<br />
No matter how hard you try to find the right<br />
compression and rebound settings it just<br />
doesn’t take the harshness away. Once<br />
you’ve blown through the initial part of the<br />
stroke the forks work fine and do what they<br />
should, in fact compared to the initial part of<br />
the stroke they feel plush in the mid-stroke.<br />
But if you encounter a unseen obstacle,<br />
rocks, ravine or roots because of the<br />
uncertainty of the forks initial reaction you’ll<br />
find you’re more inclined to make a grab for<br />
the brake rather than confidently attacking<br />
the obstacle.<br />
Similarly the rear end hops about in the<br />
initial part of the stroke and rather than being<br />
able to use the traction I found the rear a<br />
little skittish. Forget about spending money<br />
on power parts on these bikes, spend your
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