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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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THE BIKES<br />

Fantic 125 E Performance<br />

Fantic 200 Competition<br />

The world of the specialist, off-road motorcycle<br />

manufacturers can be quite turbulent<br />

as you’re dealing with small-production<br />

runs, limited finance and seat-of-the-pants<br />

management. You may remember that<br />

Clements Moto was the Gas Gas Enduro<br />

distributor for the UK till the factory went<br />

bust only to be refinanced and available in<br />

the UK once more from another distributor.<br />

In the meantime Fantic had become<br />

available so Clements Moto stepped in.<br />

The Enduro range comprises, 50,125,<br />

200cc versions and the recently added<br />

250cc model. The smaller capacity three<br />

are available in three variants; Performance<br />

(basic), Casa (better) and Competition (best)<br />

we’ll stick with these as the 250 won’t be<br />

available to ride till after the show season<br />

has finished, probably the new year. The<br />

125/200 motor is a Yamaha WR lump, the<br />

200 being an over-bored version. But it’s the<br />

chassis package that Fantic does so well.<br />

The chrome-moly perimeter frame with<br />

conventional forks and steel swingarm of<br />

the basic Performance model is a huge 30kg<br />

lighter than the standard Yamaha and a little<br />

shorter too. The Casa models have USD<br />

forks and aluminium swingarms and<br />

Competition versions offer more adjustability

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