RUST magazine: Rust#4
RUST magazine: Two-stroke or four-stroke…? It’s the age-old debate that’s perplexed dirt riders the world over. So, armed with a KTM 250EXC and a Husky TE350, RUST decided to try and settle the argument once and for all. Find out what happened when they went head-to-head in a two-day French enduro. And if you’re looking for a compact Adventure Sport bike but don’t want to break the bank then this lightly modded Honda CB500X may be just the ticket.
RUST magazine: Two-stroke or four-stroke…? It’s the age-old debate that’s perplexed dirt riders the world over. So, armed with a KTM 250EXC and a Husky TE350, RUST decided to try and settle the argument once and for all. Find out what happened when they went head-to-head in a two-day French enduro. And if you’re looking for a compact Adventure Sport bike but don’t want to break the bank then this lightly modded Honda CB500X may be just the ticket.
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hands at every opportunity. Whereas really it’s just<br />
a matter of getting used to using a lot less throttle to<br />
achieve the same thing. Within about 10 or 15 minutes<br />
I was back in the two-stroke groove, riding the torque<br />
curve and revelling at how much easier it was to go<br />
fast on this baby compared with the day before.<br />
It wasn’t that the track had got any easier, this was<br />
all down to the bike and how light the front end feels<br />
compared with a thumper. If you ride enduro you’ll<br />
know that occasionally you’ll come upon a piece of<br />
track that’s been so badly cut up by the passage of<br />
bikes and that simply doesn’t flow at all. Invariably this
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