RUST magazine: RUST#42

ADVENTURE
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3. IT’S DYNAMIC
The size, weight, power and proportion of this bike are designed to
work with a more active rider. You don’t stand or sit on this bike, twist
the throttle and let it get on with the job – no, the 790 likes a mobile
rider. On gravel, exiting corners it could be very easy to just crack the
throttle and spin the rear and hand over full control to the computer, but
if you move your weight forward-back, inside-outside the 790 rewards
you with a great feel for rear wheel traction, so rather than shedding
expensive rubber knobblies in the fury of pointlessly spinning wheel,
you can instead shift your hips back and out and feel the traction come
back to you – making for faster, cleaner corner exits. Point being there’s
space on the bike to do all this, you can get right over the front or push
yourself way back (braking hard) and the bike responds. It’s still heavy
by usual dirt bike standards, but not so heavy like a 1250/1290 so the
rider’s weight makes up a greater percentage of the combined mass, and
this means your input has a greater effect. Rally riders will love this, but
recreational riders will benefit, too. It’s about control.
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