RUST magazine: Rust#14
Is SWM’s RS650R the ultimate lightweight adventure bike? Can Yamaha’s WR450F really be a woods weapon? Can Warren possibly fit one more accessory to his long termers? These pressing questions, and more, will all be answered in RUST 14 It’s a big issue, is 14, with all that plus columns from one David Knight MBE (at last!) and from our adventure riding buddy July Behl (that’s July as in the month, not Julie – he’s a bloke, okay?). Plus: a little product testing, ‘Gallery’ (our favourite two images of the fortnight) and we celebrate the end of a surprising year in the enduro world championship. Enjoy your riding – and reading! Best Jon Bentman (Editor, RUST)
Is SWM’s RS650R the ultimate lightweight adventure bike?
Can Yamaha’s WR450F really be a woods weapon?
Can Warren possibly fit one more accessory to his long termers?
These pressing questions, and more, will all be answered in RUST 14
It’s a big issue, is 14, with all that plus columns from one David Knight MBE (at last!) and from our adventure riding buddy July Behl (that’s July as in the month, not Julie – he’s a bloke, okay?). Plus: a little product testing, ‘Gallery’ (our favourite two images of the fortnight) and we celebrate the end of a surprising year in the enduro world championship.
Enjoy your riding – and reading!
Best
Jon Bentman
(Editor, RUST)
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Adventure<br />
HUSQVARNA TE630<br />
As you can see, the family lineage of the<br />
SWMs is clear. The twin pipes and black<br />
heat shields on the new bikes make the<br />
exhaust system much less obtrusive...<br />
underneath it. Two options: replace it, or<br />
rotate it up a notch on the spline – in either<br />
situation, its ‘small beer’.<br />
What I particularly like is that the SWM<br />
feels so smooth, so well put together. In their<br />
last years with BMW, Husky dropped this<br />
engine and swapped over to the Rotax<br />
650cc motor (as found in the Dakar/Sertão)<br />
for the Terra model and yet this engine was<br />
perfectly serviceable, and in so many ways<br />
the superior. In the RS650R it feels reborn,<br />
allowing the bike a vital modern gait that<br />
some of the lower-powered 650s are lacking.<br />
And that smoothness feels to flow through in<br />
all areas – the controls are all neat and slick<br />
in operation, everything is where it should
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