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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Long Termers<br />
In association<br />
with Freestyle Bikes<br />
I was feeling good and I was sure that in the tight<br />
stuff there would be the inevitable racing<br />
behaviour with a bit of pushing and shoving when<br />
the trail got tight. I also got a sense from JB’s<br />
body language that he was feeling pressure<br />
so this had to mean that the time allowance<br />
was minimal.<br />
www.freestylebikes.co.uk<br />
JB: Pretty early on I let Warren go – I didn’t have<br />
the speed or strength to keep on his case. We<br />
were on the last minute for the veteran clubmen,<br />
so starting the minute behind us we had a<br />
hundredweight of keen (youthful) clubmen,<br />
probably riding to an even tighter time schedule.<br />
Sure enough they were soon coming past, four<br />
at a time (on their minute) as they charged along.<br />
I was quite happy to let them go and keep to my<br />
own comfortable momentum. When I got to the<br />
check they were waiting ten-deep and more,<br />
filling the track, so it was a job to push past them<br />
to where the vet guys (and Warren) on my<br />
minute were parked. Although a tighter check,<br />
as I’d thought, we still had five minutes to wait<br />
for our minute to tick over.<br />
WM: My approach was that this was like a<br />
20-minute moto. I could rest at the next time<br />
check. Radnor was one of the best experiences<br />
I can remember, it was a series of fast flowing<br />
gravel firebreak roads that you could attack flat<br />
out interspersed with the odd arrow directing<br />
you to either a steep downhill or ascent. I would<br />
liken it to a mountainous single-track enduro<br />
equivalent of Glen Helen. I loved it. This is<br />
proper 300 terrain, the downhills and ascents<br />
were slippery affairs with long deep ruts littered<br />
with roots, momentum here was key so I focused<br />
on being as smooth as possible. The Golden-
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