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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ELSH<br />
WO DAZE<br />
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T R A V E L L E R S<br />
2: THE START<br />
JB: My number one weapon against the Welsh<br />
course was my company vehicle: the 2015<br />
Yamaha WR250F long termer. It’s an awesome<br />
bike, just about brand new, and a perfect<br />
machine to take to the job. I’m loving two-strokes<br />
more and more these days, but of all the fourstrokes<br />
this one is my current favourite, light<br />
and snappy yet comfortable enough, and in the<br />
two days I got to run it in before the Welsh I’d<br />
come to love it.<br />
I had one small nag of concern at the start,<br />
though. We’d walked the first test, Church Farm,<br />
the night before the start and it was an absolute<br />
mud-fest – not my favourite kind of riding. It was<br />
also going to be the first bit of off-road after the<br />
tarmac from the start, so we’d ride it ‘cold’ and<br />
with no feel for the ground. Me, I really need<br />
some warm-up time.<br />
WM: I was glad that our starting time was last of<br />
the Clubmen Vets, that meant a sleep-in. But it<br />
also meant that we only had a minute gap to the<br />
Clubman class so I was keen to measure my<br />
pace and avoid being overtaken if possible.<br />
My Husky TE300 was (in my opinion) the<br />
weapon of choice and I was feeling confident and<br />
at one with the bike. I grew up riding two-strokes<br />
and I suspect that won’t change until I hang up<br />
my boots (a long way off yet). I was also looking<br />
forward to getting the first test out of the way.<br />
We had walked the test the night before but it<br />
had humped it down during the night so I sort of<br />
suspected that our walking the test was going<br />
to be in vain. I just couldn’t believe that it was<br />
only 10 minutes from the start on asphalt with<br />
no warm up. For once ‘Health and Safety’<br />
seemed to have been abandoned – yeah!
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