RUST magazine: RUST#37

LONG TERMER
It helps that I work from home in
rural Norfolk in the east of the UK, in a
small village. Great roads start literally
outside my front door – here in olde
worlde England, in the days before the
motorcar or motorcycle, cottages were
built right onto the road. So I’m quickly
onto the A149, a stunning coastal route,
and thumping along between the
hedgerows, going from village to village
with stupidly English names. There
goes Burnham Deepdale, Burnham
Norton (no Burnham Triumph though),
Burnham Overy Staithe, Holkham,
Wells-next-the-sea, Stiffkey and so on
until I get to the crab fishing capital of
Norfolk, Cromer.
The Street Twin loves this kind of
ride, there’s bags or torque right from
tickover and while its physically small
there’s 900cc’s under that peanut tank,
so it eats up the lanes. It’s low-key and
super-chilled. And when I stop to chill
out even more in Cromer, then I’m
loving the look of the wee beast, so you
walk away looking backwards. Here at
RUST we loved the Street Scrambler,
but I’ve come to also enjoy the modern
twist that the Street Twin brings to that
aesthetic, it’s less retro, less fake in that
sense, and a bit café racer.
And it looks even more the strippedback
café racer now that it’s wearing
Zard pipes (see the product review). The
noise from them really suits the bike, it’s
now just a bit gruff, and it’s got a great
bass to it, yet it’s far from offensive. No
88
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