RUST magazine: Mission Madagascar Touratech United People of Adventure 2016
RUST magazine: ‘Trip of a lifetime’ is a much-overused phrase, but it can be correctly applied here. Madagascar is an incredible island and this moto-adventure was something special too – far more challenging and risky than perhaps even the organisers (Touratech) could have imagined. RUST was there, with our editor being the appointed writer to the tour. Never short on words, certainly not short on images either – here we are presenting a 60-page special edition to celebrate the United People of Adventure.
RUST magazine: ‘Trip of a lifetime’ is a much-overused phrase, but it can be correctly applied here. Madagascar is an incredible island and this moto-adventure was something special too – far more challenging and risky than perhaps even the organisers (Touratech) could have imagined. RUST was there, with our editor being the appointed writer to the tour. Never short on words, certainly not short on images either – here we are presenting a 60-page special edition to celebrate the United People of Adventure.
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to add, so throw on another 25kg there. In<br />
my riding kit I’d be another 100kg <strong>of</strong> (live)<br />
load too, so I’d be stressing the Pirelli<br />
Scorpion Rally tyres to the tune <strong>of</strong> a fair<br />
400kg with the Triumph.<br />
Now, continuing on first impressions – is it<br />
handsome? I’d say no. In its defence it is at<br />
least brutish. It lacks the sense <strong>of</strong> integration<br />
the GS has developed and the headlamp<br />
arrangement lacks any sense <strong>of</strong> design at<br />
all, however there is an underlying feeling<br />
<strong>of</strong> quality, the more you look the more you<br />
appreciate the effort that’s gone into this<br />
machine. However, hit the starter button and<br />
the sound <strong>of</strong> the triple, broadcast through an<br />
aftermarket carbon fibre Remus muffler, is a<br />
gratifyingly masculine. Apparently these<br />
motors can sound a mite ‘agricultural’, a bit<br />
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