RUST magazine: Rust#15
RUST magazine: EnduroGP saw big changes for 2016, but can the world championship survive the massive overhaul coming in 2017? RUST’s own W2D grudge match – can you beat the boss and still keep your job? Riding the Road of Bones – which should you fear more: the bears or the mosquitoes? Yeah, we’re asking the big questions again, here at RUST… We’re offering answers, too, only we’re not quite sure how correct they are. You can decide on that. It’s a monster issue by the way, our biggest yet at 77 or 154 pages (depending on the format you view with), so it’s a big read even before you reach the sticky issue of the 1980s trials bike restoration project at the tail end. And in case you miss the cue: the Dear Diaries are fictitious (you know, made up), so stay relaxed… Enjoy your riding – and reading! Best JON BENTMAN
RUST magazine: EnduroGP saw big changes for 2016, but can the world championship survive the massive overhaul coming in 2017?
RUST’s own W2D grudge match – can you beat the boss and still keep your job?
Riding the Road of Bones – which should you fear more: the bears or the mosquitoes?
Yeah, we’re asking the big questions again, here at RUST… We’re offering answers, too, only we’re not quite sure how correct they are. You can decide on that. It’s a monster issue by the way, our biggest yet at 77 or 154 pages (depending on the format you view with), so it’s a big read even before you reach the sticky issue of the 1980s trials bike restoration project at the tail end.
And in case you miss the cue: the Dear Diaries are fictitious (you know, made up), so stay relaxed…
Enjoy your riding – and reading!
Best
JON BENTMAN
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4: IT CRUMBLES<br />
With the carb off I took a look around the airbox. It’s all intact but there<br />
was much 15-year-old mud caked inside and out – so it needed a<br />
thorough clean – and the old filter looked pretty manky too.<br />
Trying to clean it wasn’t so easy as the exhaust snakes around it.<br />
Easy answer – remove the exhaust. By now I knew not to attack anything<br />
square-on, but instead gave the fasteners repeated soaks with some<br />
WD-40 before gently snugging a socket onto the bolts. The bolts released<br />
a treat. Only the header pipe to muffler joint refused to budge.<br />
More WD-40 there, then the odd gentle persuasion with mallet and drift.<br />
No dice. Then a gentle tug on the muffler. Then something gave. Only it<br />
wasn’t the joint, instead the muffler fractured where it’s welded to the<br />
pipe – damn!<br />
So the airbox is being cleaned in-situ. I’m still pondering whether there’s<br />
enough solid metal to make a weld repair on the muffler, or whether I<br />
bodge some liquid metal over it or be really brave and buy a new exhaust<br />
(another two-months budget)…<br />
A new foam filter is just a few bob, so I ordered one of those up.<br />
The exhaust broke right<br />
where that big crack is...
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