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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Gallery<br />
the slippery<br />
slope...<br />
Soon as the current headlong rush of<br />
deadlines and test rides recedes we’ll<br />
be revisiting the United People of<br />
Adventure Madagascar 2016. It was a<br />
true adventure – a ride into the unknown,<br />
where you never knew what<br />
you’d face around the next curve, there<br />
being no pre-ride and no one with any<br />
experience of having ventured into the<br />
backwater that is Est Cap. Is there<br />
anything to fear here? For Gudmundur<br />
Bjornsson (of Iceland) plenty, he’s<br />
contending with a bike that’s nearing<br />
300kg as he slips and slides down this<br />
wet-clay track. Can he keep it upright?<br />
Will it stop before the bridge? And if it<br />
starts ‘going away’ he knows he got to<br />
get well clear to avoid getting trapped<br />
and injured. Then when he gets down<br />
to the bridge, you can see those planks<br />
are old, crumbing, and ice-like in the<br />
rain. Gudmundur has a lifetime of<br />
riding enduro to fall back on, but even<br />
so, this stuff really makes you sweat…<br />
Image: Ramona Schwarz,<br />
Touratech
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