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RUST magazine: RUST#40

Honda CRF450L – RUST rides Honda’s new super high-spec trail bike. Does it deliver? 2019 ADV – EICMA revealed a whole new swathe of mid-size adventure bikes for 2019, RUST assesses the potential of each… CHRIS BIRCH – in life we go through many changes, Chris Birch was once an extreme enduro god, now he’s fast becoming an adventure-riding god! ARIZONA – our first report back from our road trip across western America follows eight Arizona locals on a typical play day in the desert plus, of course, lots more Jon Bentman (Editor, RUST)

Honda CRF450L – RUST rides Honda’s new super high-spec trail bike. Does it deliver?

2019 ADV – EICMA revealed a whole new swathe of mid-size adventure bikes for 2019, RUST assesses the potential of each…

CHRIS BIRCH – in life we go through many changes, Chris Birch was once an extreme enduro god, now he’s fast becoming an adventure-riding god!

ARIZONA – our first report back from our road trip across western America follows eight Arizona locals on a typical play day in the desert

plus, of course, lots more

Jon Bentman
(Editor, RUST)

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FEATURES<br />

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EICMA’S Adventures<br />

Looking back at the<br />

biggest bike show of<br />

2018 – here’s the biggest<br />

news…<br />

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Honda CRF450L<br />

Honda’s new trail bike<br />

borrows heavily from<br />

its amazing CRF450R<br />

motocrossing sibling – only<br />

then it gets jumped on<br />

heavily by the nanny state<br />

FANTIC XF1 Integra<br />

Warren came back from<br />

EICMA – the future is<br />

electric, he said. Actually<br />

the future is now, but we<br />

prefer our electric bikes<br />

with pedals, not pegs…<br />

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Chris Birch<br />

Once a leading extreme<br />

enduro rider, now a family<br />

man who just so happens<br />

to ride adventure bikes – in<br />

the most extreme fashion!<br />

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Arizona<br />

<strong>RUST</strong>’s rides through the<br />

western states of the US<br />

continue, with a supertough<br />

desert ride just<br />

outside Phoenix, Arizona<br />

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