RUST magazine: RUST#42
IT'S A WHOPPER! 174 pages, so take your time. ON TEST: KTM 790 Adventure R, Triumph Scrambler 1200XE, Fantic Caballero Scrambler 500, Yamaha WR450F plus long term reports on Suzuki V-Strom 650XT, Honda CRF250RX, Husqvarna FE350 and KTM 1290 Adventure R. TRAVEL: California Cruising on Triumph and Indian, across the Americas with PanAmScram. REGULARS: Chris Evans, Craig Keyworth, fitness, products, and much much more!
IT'S A WHOPPER! 174 pages, so take your time. ON TEST: KTM 790 Adventure R, Triumph Scrambler 1200XE, Fantic Caballero Scrambler 500, Yamaha WR450F plus long term reports on Suzuki V-Strom 650XT, Honda CRF250RX, Husqvarna FE350 and KTM 1290 Adventure R. TRAVEL: California Cruising on Triumph and Indian, across the Americas with PanAmScram. REGULARS: Chris Evans, Craig Keyworth, fitness, products, and much much more!
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THE ADVENTURE<br />
Now those two misfires have not put us<br />
off this bike. Not for a minute. You see,<br />
not only is this bike as good as being<br />
our all-time ultimate Scrambler – it<br />
runs the BMW RnineT Scrambler right<br />
to the wire (only the BMW’s sublime<br />
air-oil-cooled motor saves it from being<br />
roundly beaten) – it’s also quite possibly<br />
our choice of ultimate adventure bike as<br />
well!<br />
NOT ONLY IS THIS BIKE AS GOOD AS BEING OUR ALL-<br />
TIME ULTIMATE SCRAMBLER IT’S ALSO QUITE POSSIBLY<br />
OUR CHOICE OF ULTIMATE ADVENTURE BIKE AS WELL!<br />
To explain. We love adventure bikes<br />
here at <strong>RUST</strong>, next to riding our enduros<br />
adventure is our passion. But the arms<br />
race in the adventure sector has led<br />
to massive skew in the market. For<br />
no good reason it seems adventure<br />
bikes now need to also be motocross<br />
proficient while possessing the power<br />
output of a factory world superbike of<br />
just a handful of seasons past. Selling<br />
on Top Trump bragging rights has<br />
pushed the latest adventure bikes into<br />
realms that have absolutely nothing to<br />
do with a casual sight seeing tour of<br />
Sierra Leone.<br />
Back in the 1970s Ted Simon, on his<br />
Police-issue Triumph T100 clearly<br />
chose not bother Roger De Coster<br />
around Namur while on his way across<br />
Europe heading to the Middle East,<br />
neither did he check in with Greg<br />
Hansford at Mount Panorama while<br />
making a tour of Australia’s East Coast.<br />
He just bumped along meeting all<br />
manner of people (and bedding the<br />
odd one too…!) and generally finding<br />
wonder in the world. No feet-up broadsliding,<br />
no 25’ table-top jumps, no<br />
150mph motorway blasts. Yep, it seems<br />
adventure bikes have lost sight of their<br />
humble origins and so when you rock<br />
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