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RUST magazine: Rust#8

RUST magazine: Yamaha’s new WR250 two-stroke enduro Four vintage Harleys take on Ruta 40 Royal Enfield’s new adventure bike Adventure Motorcycling Handbook new edition reviewed In RUST #8 we saddle up on Yamaha’s WR250 – their new enduro that you won’t find on their websites but you will find in their showrooms (across Europe at least). We check out Royal Enfield’s new ‘Himalayan’ and ask, could this be the ultimate mid-capacity adventure bike? We follow four German fellas as they rattle across South America on vintage Harley-Davidsons, there wasn’t blood, but there 
was oil. Jon bentman

RUST magazine: Yamaha’s new WR250 two-stroke enduro
Four vintage Harleys take on Ruta 40
Royal Enfield’s new adventure bike
Adventure Motorcycling Handbook new edition reviewed

In RUST #8 we saddle up on Yamaha’s WR250 – their new enduro that you won’t find on their websites but you will find in their showrooms (across Europe at least). We check out Royal Enfield’s new ‘Himalayan’ and ask, could this be the ultimate mid-capacity adventure bike? We follow four German fellas as they rattle across South America on vintage Harley-Davidsons, there wasn’t blood, but there 
was oil.
Jon bentman

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The man himself,<br />

Dylan Jones, really<br />

really good bloke...<br />

what a multitude of terrain that was! Pure<br />

unadulterated enduro heaven. Llanidloes,<br />

in deepest Wales, is very famous for its<br />

enduro heritage. Every year the British<br />

Enduro Championship hosts a round in the<br />

Hafren forest and more notably the 2008<br />

Enduro World Championship GP of Wales<br />

was held at the Jones’ farm complex. Pretty<br />

much every local you speak to loves bikes.<br />

Llanidloes/Rhayader area is to UK enduro<br />

what the Isle of Man is to proper road racing.<br />

There is everything from woodland trails,<br />

forest fire roads and technical special tests.<br />

You can always count on Yamaha to<br />

provide a very comfortable and rideable<br />

chassis. I’ll hold my hands up to being a big<br />

KTM fan, but as soon as I set off on the<br />

WR250 I felt at home and knew exactly

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