RUST Magazine: RUST#33
RUST 33 brings you a pair of retro Yam's, the SCR950 and XSR900, two very different beasts! Jonny Walker and Taddy Blazusiak talk all things Extreme Enduro, RUST reports on Snowquake, we take a first look at our Triumph Street Twin long termer and have a geography lesson learning more about the stunning Kyrgyzstan with Compass Expeditions.
RUST 33 brings you a pair of retro Yam's, the SCR950 and XSR900, two very different beasts! Jonny Walker and Taddy Blazusiak talk all things Extreme Enduro, RUST reports on Snowquake, we take a first look at our Triumph Street Twin long termer and have a geography lesson learning more about the stunning Kyrgyzstan with Compass Expeditions.
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METAL<br />
SPORT<br />
HERITAGE?<br />
Yamaha have created a distinctive retro offering<br />
in their Sport Heritage range (also tagged Faster<br />
Sons). Some are scramblers, some are roadster<br />
come café racers. Yamaha are clearly approaching<br />
the sector from many angles. Here are two<br />
utterly opposing angles. Two 900cc Yamahas<br />
that are anything but brothers…<br />
Words & images: JB & Alex Waters<br />
YAMAHA SCR950<br />
The SCR950 kind of leaves us flummoxed. It<br />
is the weirdest thing, first thought is pretty<br />
much ‘no!’, only it has something – maybe an<br />
air of familiarity – that stops us clean running<br />
away. There are little features, design nuances, to<br />
this bike that make you think somewhere in the<br />
R&D team there is at least one man who knows<br />
something about real motorcycles. So you kind of<br />
hang around.<br />
It is one mad machine, though. We’re used to<br />
seeing roadsters being converted into scramblers (like<br />
Triumph’s Street Scrambler and Ducati’s Desert Sled<br />
as seen in <strong>RUST</strong> #32) but has anyone before taken a<br />
cruiser and tried to make it into scrambler?<br />
Thing is this bike comes from 2017 (and it’s now<br />
2018) and all sorts of experiments are going on<br />
as the mainstream bike manufacturers try to get a<br />
handle on the custom-bobber-hipster-scramblerwhatever-it-is<br />
movement. Race reps are history,<br />
adventure is the new touring (apparently) and so for<br />
the cool dude of today stripped-down retro things<br />
are the new black. Open face lids, beards and crap<br />
goggles are the go, even for mainstream bikers (just<br />
like when dads got into wearing cargo pants).<br />
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