RUST Magazine: RUST#34
PASTRANA EXCLUSIVE – RUST talks to Travis Pastrana about backflips, school runs and other parental responsibilities GENERAL-LY SPEAKING – RUST goes Ice Cold in Katowice in Polaris’s General SSV. An SSV? What’s that? WILD WOMEN – no, Wildwood, the women aren’t wild, maybe mad, but they’re not wild STILLWELL – Alan Stillwell, the legend of US dirt bike suspension, writes exclusively for RUST… plus, of course, lots more As ever, wishing you happy riding and reading.
PASTRANA EXCLUSIVE – RUST talks to Travis Pastrana about backflips, school runs and other parental responsibilities
GENERAL-LY SPEAKING – RUST goes Ice Cold in Katowice in Polaris’s General SSV. An SSV? What’s that?
WILD WOMEN – no, Wildwood, the women aren’t wild, maybe mad, but they’re not wild
STILLWELL – Alan Stillwell, the legend of US dirt bike suspension, writes exclusively for RUST…
plus, of course, lots more
As ever, wishing you happy riding and reading.
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TESTED<br />
I’m terrible when it comes to keeping<br />
up with the world. Things need to<br />
literally run me over before I catch<br />
on. That’s been the case with the<br />
SxS phenomenon. There I was riding<br />
our Yamaha WR250F in a rally raid in<br />
Portugal early last year when this roar of<br />
an engine – no bike engine, something<br />
much-much bigger – comes sweeping<br />
up on me, I hear shouts of Spanish or<br />
Portuguese – and then this quad-car<br />
thing barges past and roosts its way up<br />
the trail.<br />
That thing was a beast, but the trail<br />
was technical so I was able to tag along<br />
and see just what a ball of fun the two<br />
occupants were having – sideways in<br />
every corner – right up to the point<br />
where they wrapped said beast around<br />
a tree, knocking a wheel off and putting<br />
themselves out for the day (clearly you<br />
can have too much of a good thing).<br />
But by then they had piqued my<br />
interest and while I love my dirt biking<br />
I could see those guys were having a<br />
great time, too. And while it was clearly<br />
a quad-car-thing, those guys looked just<br />
like us, with motocross helmets and<br />
goggles, were equally getting covered<br />
in mud, and obviously had the same<br />
sense of lunacy – kind of brothers from<br />
another mother.<br />
28 www.rustsports.com
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