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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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