RUST magazine: Rust#6

Editorial
ch..ch..ch..
changes
By jon bentman,
photos: j bentman & various
WELCOME TO RUST six, and the keen-eyed among you might just have
noticed that the face on the editorial page has changed. The beard’s gone
because the man’s gone – indeed, we’ve got a change of editorship. It’s
farewell to Si Melber, who you may have known for only six issues here at
RUST but in fact has been directing the RUST editorial team since early in
2015 when we started in development. Many will probably have known Si for
much much longer, for some 20 years with Trailbike and Enduro Magazine
(TBM) that pre-dates RUST. Si’s off on a new adventure – he says he’ll be
taking a break from the dirt bikes for a while, but none of us who know him
can believe that. So even if he’s not to be seen out there in the media,
beware – you might find a certain beardy-weirdy barreling down on you as
you push through the brambles, having missed that last course arrow...
It’s also with some personal sadness that I succeed Si, for he was a good
bloke and for me a very special editor. By chance, he and I hold very similar
views on dirt biking and the written word – I say by chance because in many
other ways we are very different creatures, with different tastes and personalities.
But we were in accord on our stance on not dumbing-down, in fact we
both champion the educated standpoint, we’re trained to question everything
and to look from all standpoints. And if a story needs many words to be
cohesively explained then many words will be published, regardless of
modern publishing trends. Si has done much to present recreational dirt