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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very unruffled manner. Plus compared to my EXC, it was armchair comfy.<br />
The seat is similar in profile to the one fitted to the Yamaha 660 Ténéré<br />
but much more welcoming. You could wedge your butt into the dip at the<br />
back and ride for hours in relative luxury. Which is handy as I never had to<br />
fill the thing up all day, thanks to the voluminous fuel tank. Now normally<br />
these things equate to a disastrous riding position but I’m going to go on<br />
record here and state that I have never ridden a bike with such a natural<br />
standing position. You weren’t bent over, your weight was positioned just<br />
right, man and machines were in total harmony. Plus the suspension and<br />
brakes were all top quality and the rally type fairing took off a useful<br />
amount of wind pressure.<br />
Also on the trip were five KTM 690 Enduro Rs, which until then I’d<br />
considered the ultimate bike for the trip, but the CCM outshone them in<br />
almost every department. The seat height was much more manageable, the<br />
weight was lower and all in all you felt more in control of your own destiny.<br />
If you hadn’t guessed by now, I was very impressed. I’d expected to ride<br />
CCM also offer an SM kitted<br />
GP450RS which includes WP<br />
forks, a spare set of 17”<br />
wheels/tyres with cush drive,<br />
discs and sprocket, brush<br />
guards, stainless number plate<br />
holder and extra decal pack...<br />
in praise<br />
of the<br />
CCM GP450
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