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RUST magazine: Rust#5

RUST magazine: Want to know how to set up your bike like a pro? Well in RUST #5 we give you the lowdown on the top tips that’ll make your bike handle and your confidence soar. And meet the guys transforming the Trail riders Fellowship from an old boys’ club, to a contemporary collective.

RUST magazine: Want to know how to set up your bike like a pro? Well in RUST #5 we give you the lowdown on the top tips that’ll make your bike handle and your confidence soar. And meet the guys transforming the Trail riders Fellowship from an old boys’ club, to a contemporary collective.

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As a young adolescent, being invited on a shoot was a right of passage;<br />

however at that age hormonal activity also dictated that girls should be in<br />

evidence at every possible occasion, and quite frankly there weren’t any -<br />

well except for your mate’s mum dispensing pies and port at lunchtime from<br />

the back of a Land Rover. My fascination with firearms dwindled over the<br />

years as urban living got in the way, but now in my dotage, I’ve gone full<br />

circle. What’s all this got to do with trail riding you may ask? Not much, but<br />

stick with it.<br />

The catalyst turned out to be a <strong>magazine</strong>. I was in my local countryside<br />

store - all waxed cotton and rat poison - when I spied a publication entitled<br />

Pull which I naturally assumed to be a dating mag, as you hear so much<br />

about lovelorn farmers going on wife-hunting trips to the Philippines. Anyway<br />

I flicked through from the back as one does, expecting to find Asian sirens<br />

draped over straw bales, but to my horror it was full of fat blokes with guns.<br />

At least they were clothed. The centrefold was one George Digweed… Did

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