RUST magazine: RUST #44
Just in time for Christmas – it's RUST #44! It's a 120-page wonder, that's bringing you the best in enduro, rally, adventure and even heritage riding. And with a long seasonal break ahead it's great reading just when you need it
Just in time for Christmas – it's RUST #44! It's a 120-page wonder, that's bringing you the best in enduro, rally, adventure and even heritage riding. And with a long seasonal break ahead it's great reading just when you need it
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A 450 AND A HALF…<br />
To give them their full titles the enduro bike is a Husqvarna FE450, mine<br />
a 2019. The rally bike is the latest 2019/2020 model Factory Rally Replica:<br />
the FR450. It’s easy to look at the stats. My FE450 puts out 45hp, renowned<br />
as being an animal, the choice of big lads and fast motocrossers, the pick<br />
of the serious racer or the quickest of greenlaners. I found it wanting<br />
in the desert, and have been taking liberties with it since my return. A<br />
silky pussycat with an almost endless capacity to drift the rear – and<br />
murder tyres. The headline stat here is that the FR produces in the order<br />
of 72hp. More than 50% more! It would be easy to finish this story here, to<br />
underline that the legacy of the ever growing capacity and speed of Dakar<br />
bikes in the mid 90s has failed to be abated by the limit to 450cc, but it’s so<br />
much more than that. So much more.<br />
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