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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<strong>RUST</strong> Trail<br />
Ockley before almost looping back on itself<br />
and heading for what are perhaps the jewels<br />
in the crown of this particular route: Leith Hill<br />
and Coldharbour.<br />
HIGHS AND LOWS IN THE<br />
HOME COUNTIES<br />
After a fair amount of roadwork it was good<br />
to get to, what are for trail riders in the<br />
South-East, some of the most legendary<br />
trails. Not exactly the Strata Florida and<br />
Monks’ Trod of Mid-Wales but not bad for<br />
Surrey. We were in the Home Counties,<br />
where land and property is disgustingly<br />
expensive and even the best-behaved<br />
off-road riders are treated with utter disdain.<br />
Speaking of which, we witnessed what<br />
architectural atrocities can be committed by<br />
people with more money than taste. Down<br />
one byway, which was fenced, we saw a<br />
white-marble mansion under construction<br />
complete with swimming pool and heliport<br />
that would be more at home in the<br />
Hollywood Hills than the Surrey Hills.<br />
There’s one point on Leith Hill that<br />
resembles an ancient spaghetti junction<br />
where byways, footpaths and bridleways all<br />
converge. We stopped to consult the OS<br />
map and have a look round for a byway<br />
leading in the right direction, to commune<br />
with nature and rehydrate – even though it<br />
was after midday the heat wasn’t showing
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