RUST magazine: RUST#35
TIGER FEET – RUST spends three days traipsing through mud and gloop in Wales to establish the dirt credentials of Triumph’s new 2018 Tigers SUSPENSION SMARTS – Top US suspension tuner Alan Stillwell starts his regular rider-help column (with tyres?!) SET SAIL – when the road ends, it’s that or fly. July Behl floats his away across the Darien Gap A FOOT SOLDIER’S TALE – Rick Kemp investigates the life of the TRF regulars… plus, of course, lots more We’ll blame the weather. Oh yes, it’s lovely right now, but when we had those bikes in the van, when we were sat at the airport waiting to flyaway for five days on the Iberian trails, what was it like then? A white out. So many frustrated plans... Still, somehow we did get three days in, skidding around in the dirt on the latest Triumph Tigers to lift our mood and raise our appreciation of these fine adventure bikes. So while this issue is – as South Eastern Trains might say – a little delayed, it is nonetheless in many parts glorious. Made with love and in the spirit of sharing. As ever, wishing you happy riding and reading. Jon Bentman (Editor, RUST)
TIGER FEET – RUST spends three days traipsing through mud and gloop in Wales to establish the dirt credentials of Triumph’s new 2018 Tigers
SUSPENSION SMARTS – Top US suspension tuner Alan Stillwell starts his regular rider-help column (with tyres?!)
SET SAIL – when the road ends, it’s that or fly. July Behl floats his away across the Darien Gap
A FOOT SOLDIER’S TALE – Rick Kemp investigates the life of the TRF regulars…
plus, of course, lots more
We’ll blame the weather. Oh yes, it’s lovely right now, but when we had those bikes in the van, when we were sat at the airport waiting to flyaway for five days on the Iberian trails, what was it like then? A white out. So many frustrated plans... Still, somehow we did get three days in, skidding around in the dirt on the latest Triumph Tigers to lift our mood and raise our appreciation of these fine adventure bikes. So while this issue is – as South Eastern Trains might say – a little delayed, it is nonetheless in many parts glorious. Made with love and in the spirit of sharing.
As ever, wishing you happy riding and reading.
Jon Bentman
(Editor, RUST)
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TRAIL<br />
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BREAKING FREE<br />
West Kent along with Essex, Surrey and<br />
Hertfordshire cater for London-based<br />
members who like to break free at the<br />
weekends. As if on cue, a young chap from<br />
south east London turned up. He wanted<br />
some advice on what bike to get. As you<br />
can imagine there was a lot of advice flying<br />
around but taking in to account his biking<br />
history and novice dirt status a 250cc<br />
four-stroke was the general consensus.<br />
Bearing in mind if you’re not in the<br />
fortunate position of living within striking<br />
distance of a byway then you’ll need to<br />
either ride there or have a van or vehicle<br />
with a bike rack, so there is a school of<br />
thought that favours the larger capacity<br />
bikes, 450cc-and upward, for their ability<br />
to maintain higher road speeds without<br />
stressing the motor. In reality, local<br />
knowledge will often dictate choice, you<br />
can, pretty much, be on a byway within an<br />
hour’s travel regardless of where you live.<br />
How you get there is up to you.<br />
HORSING AROUND<br />
The first activity <strong>RUST</strong> joined the TRF on<br />
was the Chilham Park Horse Trials held<br />
in the considerable grounds of Chilham<br />
Castle. This has been a traditional Kent<br />
TRF activity for many years and nationwide<br />
the TRF has links with many equestrian<br />
events. The major task over this particular<br />
weekend was to have TRF riders out on the<br />
cross-country course periodically taking<br />
the scores from the observers at the jumps<br />
to the organisers office, thereby enabling<br />
a speedy results service and subsequent<br />
prize-giving after each event. Who needs<br />
computers?<br />
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