RUST magazine: Rust#24
Assoluti D’Italia – is this the world’s best enduro championship? Fantic’s new 250 – have the Italian’s made a CRF250L-beater? Trans America Trail – is this the world’s greatest trail ride? Plus plenty of product testing, columnists and more Try as we might we’ve failed (again) to make a small magazine! And again we’ve been travelling the earth. We’ve headed into Italy to witness the start of their enduro season with round one of the Assoluti D’Italia – and what we saw there is just mind-blowing. We stayed local for a first test of Fantic’s latest trail bike, the 250E Casa – and what a surprise that wee bike is. And we end the issue in grand style, too, as it just doesn’t get any grander than the canyons of the US’s west. It’s a big issue, for sure. Enjoy the reading – and your riding! Jon Bentman (Editor, RUST)
Assoluti D’Italia – is this the world’s best enduro championship?
Fantic’s new 250 – have the Italian’s made a CRF250L-beater?
Trans America Trail – is this the world’s greatest trail ride?
Plus plenty of product testing, columnists and more
Try as we might we’ve failed (again) to make a small magazine! And again we’ve been travelling the earth. We’ve headed into Italy to witness the start of their enduro season with round one of the Assoluti D’Italia – and what we saw there is just mind-blowing. We stayed local for a first test of Fantic’s latest trail bike, the 250E Casa – and what a surprise that wee bike is. And we end the issue in grand style, too, as it just doesn’t get any grander than the canyons of the US’s west.
It’s a big issue, for sure. Enjoy the reading – and your riding!
Jon Bentman
(Editor, RUST)
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<strong>RUST</strong> Adventure<br />
Over drinks (of course the bar is in Nevada) we struck up<br />
conversations with the locals and three Texans working<br />
there on construction. I will never forget how one fellow<br />
sounded just like Tow-Mater from the movie Cars. This<br />
truly was Radiator Springs, Carburettor County…<br />
Poor old Nevada suffers from a touch of nada.<br />
At times there’s just nothing, zilch. The countryside is<br />
greyed with low sagebrush vegetation and there aren’t<br />
many significant features. Still, I was on a motorcycle<br />
and gobbling up dirt roads taking in the vastness, so I<br />
was happy. Some of the roads were barely two wheel<br />
marks through the encroaching sage and there were a<br />
few Taranaki gates (a basic wire and batten gate), so it<br />
was reassuring having the GPS to follow.<br />
At a small junction in the back of beyond we found a<br />
trailer (caravan) parked-up with horses, dogs, and some<br />
more friendly Americans. Bearded Bill Massie and his wife<br />
Carroll introduced themselves and explained what fun<br />
they were having out there in the middle of nowhere. For<br />
20 years the pair had visited this area to be part of the<br />
annual re-enactment of the pony express from Missouri to<br />
Sacramento. Dating back to 1860, a letter then would cost<br />
you $5 - a tankbag full of money at the time, no wonder it
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