RUST magazine: RUST#32
RUST 32 SCRAMBLER – Triumph and Ducati Scramblers take on a cool, wet British autumn KTM Freeride 250F – KTM’s new Freeride has learned its lessons, this one performs! KTM 200EXC – one for the enthusiasts as we check out the tuning capabilities of this clubman favourite ENDUROGP – a year end like no other as the paddock splinters… Plus so much more in this 98-page mega issue... What you’ll notice straight away is the all-new look. A month ago we launched our all-new website, now the magazine gets a top-to-bottom overhaul. And there’s still more to come, so much more. You wait ‘til 2018! Anyway, in the meantime, there’s some great reading in this issue, we’ve got a great mix of stories that we know you’ll enjoy reading (and looking at). And so if you can, do try to read it on a tablet at least, but preferably on a big screen (yeah, with retina display) as the images truly deserve it. Yep, it’s a big issue. But no time to talk, we’ve got yet another issue to prepare right now – so stand by for that one, too. Happy reading and best wishes for the festive season. Jon Bentman (Editor, RUST)
RUST 32
SCRAMBLER – Triumph and Ducati Scramblers take on a cool, wet British autumn
KTM Freeride 250F – KTM’s new Freeride has learned its lessons, this one performs!
KTM 200EXC – one for the enthusiasts as we check out the tuning capabilities of this clubman favourite
ENDUROGP – a year end like no other as the paddock splinters…
Plus so much more in this 98-page mega issue...
What you’ll notice straight away is the all-new look. A month ago we launched our all-new website, now the magazine gets a top-to-bottom overhaul. And there’s still more to come, so much more. You wait ‘til 2018!
Anyway, in the meantime, there’s some great reading in this issue, we’ve got a great mix of stories that we know you’ll enjoy reading (and looking at). And so if you can, do try to read it on a tablet at least, but preferably on a big screen (yeah, with retina display) as the images truly deserve it.
Yep, it’s a big issue. But no time to talk, we’ve got yet another issue to prepare right now – so stand by for that one, too.
Happy reading and best wishes for the festive season.
Jon Bentman
(Editor, RUST)
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So you sit there, in a bubble of happiness,<br />
the free-revving vee-twin thrumming away<br />
underneath you, those 70s style motocross<br />
bars (high-and-wide like they were on<br />
Roger’s RH, not low-and-wide like today’s<br />
RM-Z) allowing you to embrace the road –<br />
the whole country – in your reverie. There’s<br />
no question this bike has tech – it has to, to<br />
squeak through the latest Euro 4 emission<br />
and safety regulations – but it doesn’t bother<br />
you with all that, the forward view is pure<br />
scrambler simplicity, just the smallest (offset)<br />
digital speedo to disturb what is a pared-back<br />
view of the road.<br />
This isn’t scrambler life as we know it, it’s<br />
adventure as it should be. A comfortable,<br />
capable platform where you can swan along<br />
taking in everything around you, instead<br />
of concentrating on the bells and whistles<br />
creating all kinds of unnecessary distractions<br />
in the cockpit. It’s got plenty of speed and<br />
the motor delights in spinning up as you vary<br />
the octaves with the help of the slick-shifting<br />
six-speed ‘box (gotta love the Duke’s exhaust<br />
note). But speed isn’t adventure any more<br />
than it is scrambler. So chill, kick back and<br />
enjoy the ride.<br />
And when you stop, it says ‘like me’<br />
it might even suggest ‘love me’ to every<br />
stranger around. It’s no Bavarian battering<br />
ram, it’s a sweet-talking mandolin-playing<br />
Latin – conquering the world with love, not<br />
menace. So people look on in appreciation,<br />
not in awe. Smile, it suggests. And they do.<br />
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