RUST magazine: Rust#9
RUST magazine: Celebrating Yamaha’s 40th year in enduro. Duel – when teammates collide. Don’t look back in anger – that could be the theme for this issue. Just days ago Editor JB got chased off an Indian Ocean island by a hurricane, but he’s not sore about it, just mightily relieved he didn’t get flattened. He’s also quite relieved a recent chance to test a monster racer from our past, the amazing Yamaha IT490, didn’t beat-up on him, too. Two people who did get beaten up: Ivan Cervantes and Matt Phillips. In 2014 these two went head to head for the E3 world title, a race that saw them both in hospital – fastest to rehab wins the title…
RUST magazine: Celebrating Yamaha’s 40th year in enduro. Duel – when teammates collide. Don’t look back in anger – that could be the theme for this issue. Just days ago Editor JB got chased off an Indian Ocean island by a hurricane, but he’s not sore about it, just mightily relieved he didn’t get flattened. He’s also quite relieved a recent chance to test a monster racer from our past, the amazing Yamaha IT490, didn’t beat-up on him, too. Two people who did get beaten up: Ivan Cervantes and Matt Phillips. In 2014 these two went head to head for the E3 world title, a race that saw them both in hospital – fastest to rehab wins the title…
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Heritage<br />
use. Dirt Bike <strong>magazine</strong> in America called it<br />
the ‘ultimate Joe Average big-bore trail bike’.<br />
The Japanese offering was, nonetheless,<br />
very nearly good enough. It was very<br />
attractive, looked to have all the right bits<br />
(Yamaha were always quick to adopt the<br />
enduro-specific mods, like QD head-light,<br />
snail-cam chain adjusters and pullers on the<br />
axles), and it came at the right price – about<br />
a third less than the price of the European<br />
exotica. But there again, the IT never quite<br />
aced the European thoroughbreds in direct<br />
competition. Features that made ITs<br />
attractive to amateur riders – easy power,<br />
This particular 1983 IT saw action at the Weston<br />
Beach Race in 2000. The nightmares still persist...
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