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RUST magazine: Rust#10

RUST magazine: We go 700km on a KTM 450EXC! Baja on a BMW R60/6… Chris Evans buys a new bike. In the history of journalism we’re not sure we’ve ever heard of a journo buying a new bike – and especially not at list price. Chris Evans could then be creating a world first, not just a personal one. Obviously it makes for a harrowing account – and a must read. As well we take a 2016 KTM 450EXC for a long distance test: 700km in four-days – did it survive? Did we like it?! And last but not least, we welcome a feature contribution from brilliant Australian photo-journalist Thomas Wielecki, who took a 1974 BMW R60/6 the length of Baja and back (and later circled USA on it). He took his wife, too. Surprisingly, they’re still together… It’s a super-pretty, super-technicolour issue. We think you’ll like it! You might even love it…

RUST magazine: We go 700km on a KTM 450EXC! Baja on a BMW R60/6…
Chris Evans buys a new bike. In the history of journalism we’re not sure we’ve ever heard of a journo buying a new bike – and especially not at list price. Chris Evans could then be creating a world first, not just a personal one. Obviously it makes for a harrowing account – and a must read. As well we take a 2016 KTM 450EXC for a long distance test: 700km in four-days – did it survive? Did we like it?! And last but not least, we welcome a feature contribution from brilliant Australian photo-journalist Thomas Wielecki, who took a 1974 BMW R60/6 the length of Baja and back (and later circled USA on it). He took his wife, too. Surprisingly, they’re still together…
It’s a super-pretty, super-technicolour issue. We think you’ll like it! You might even love it…

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Enduro<br />

So when Pedro at Horizons Adventures<br />

told me I’d be riding a KTM 450EXC for a<br />

recent four-day trail ride in Portugal I was<br />

both slightly-disappointed, and at the same<br />

time I knew this was an opportunity to make<br />

my peace with KTM’s big gun.<br />

WARREN’S RATINGS<br />

Now I could go through this bike longhand<br />

but, as JB said, we have enough long<br />

features going on in <strong>RUST</strong> as it is, so a<br />

quick-fire run through of the key issues that<br />

four-days in the saddle reveals is perhaps<br />

the better idea. So here’s the feedback,<br />

and in no particular order, just how they<br />

come to mind:

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