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RUST magazine: Rust#17

RUST magazine: Rust#17 Yep, Team USA won, but RUST digs deeper into the real stories that made ISDE 2016… Instant salvation? Can Rick Kemp atone for a lifetime of misdemeanours by trail riding the Pilgrims’ Way in just one day? Is the true adventure bike a single-cylinder lightweight super-enduro? CCM think so, but can the GP450 really cut the mustard? From France to Chile, we travel the globe to find out! Write less, said the editor (me!). That’s really not happening; at 128 pages our latest issue tops our last again. It’s all for your benefit though, and besides, look where dumbing-down gets us – Brexit and Clinton-Trump! Let’s engage our brains, our imagination – and our inspiration for that matter. This issue we’re even embracing medieval history, you don’t get that in many moto-publications. Anyway, this is also our first birthday – one year, 24 issues. It’s quite a pace, we’re not exactly flat out, or WFO as you might say, but pushing-on certainly. And with each issue our audience is expanding (read the editorial for more on that) so if you’re a new subscriber, welcome! Anyway, gotta run, there’s a plane to catch and a big adventure ride waiting. Should be epic… Enjoy your riding, too – and reading! Best Jon Bentman (Editor, RUST)

RUST magazine: Rust#17
Yep, Team USA won, but RUST digs deeper into the real stories that made ISDE 2016…
Instant salvation? Can Rick Kemp atone for a lifetime of misdemeanours by trail riding the Pilgrims’ Way in just one day?
Is the true adventure bike a single-cylinder lightweight super-enduro? CCM think so, but can the GP450 really cut the mustard? From France to Chile, we travel the globe to find out!

Write less, said the editor (me!). That’s really not happening; at 128 pages our latest issue tops our last again. It’s all for your benefit though, and besides, look where dumbing-down gets us – Brexit and Clinton-Trump! Let’s engage our brains, our imagination – and our inspiration for that matter. This issue we’re even embracing medieval history, you don’t get that in many moto-publications.

Anyway, this is also our first birthday – one year, 24 issues. It’s quite a pace, we’re not exactly flat out, or WFO as you might say, but pushing-on certainly. And with each issue our audience is expanding (read the editorial for more on that) so if you’re a new subscriber, welcome!

Anyway, gotta run, there’s a plane to catch and a big adventure ride waiting. Should be epic…


Enjoy your riding, too – and reading!

Best

Jon Bentman
(Editor, RUST)

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in praise<br />

of the<br />

CCM GP450<br />

people a great deal of pleasure. But what I can’t help wondering is what<br />

are people actually doing with them. There are a few events organised<br />

specifically for them and I know people like Si Pavey down at (BMW)<br />

Off-Road Skills in South Wales are busy teaching people how to ride<br />

them, but looking at the sales figures I suspect that all this is catering for<br />

a tiny minority of people who are actually buying them.<br />

My guess is that a lot of these bikes are being bought to fuel the ‘one<br />

day I’ll ride around the world on a bike’ dream that all self-respecting<br />

motorcyclists harbour. It is a dream that I have nurtured off and on virtually<br />

since the day I threw my leg over a BSA Bantam, so I’m not going to<br />

criticise anyone else for keeping the flame alive, but if I was actually serious<br />

about achieving that ambition I think I’d want something a bit lighter and a<br />

lot more simple to maintain. Which was why I was so keen to try one of the<br />

CCM GP450s that one of my customers brought along on a recent<br />

Le Havre to St Tropez.<br />

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