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Issue#15 TLRProject Part2–Snappingbitsoff... EnduroGP RUST’sround-upof the2016season RUSTdidtheWelsh! Part3–TheRaceItself.JBandWarrenbattleitout! RoadofBones www.rustsports.com TheOtherWayRound–MagadantoYakutsk... Contents 3 Editorial JB’s mantra for the next issue will be: write less... 4 Gallery x 3 8 Imagined diary entries from three riders in very different branches of dirtbiking... 8 one to rule them all Georgia Wells chronicles the 2016 EnduroGP season. A year full of surprises... 21 dispatches Bikers getting out there, making a difference, raising money for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance... 23 rust did the welsh Part 3 – JB and Warren took part in the Welsh Two Day Enduro. What happened in Wales, stays in Wales... 44 holcombe runs hot Steve Holcombe, Beta factory rider and E3 World Champion, in action... 45 the road of bones 2000 kilometres across the wilderness from Magadan to Yakutsk... 68 TLR PROJECT – PART2 This issue JB gets out the mole grips and starts 45 dismembering the poor TLR... cover image Josh Snowden Editorial INDIAN SUMMER By jon bentman photo: JB THE HEAT IS ON. It certainly is as I write this, it’s the end of September but I’m still in shorts and T-shirt. Here in the UK we’ve enjoyed an eight-week spell of sunshine – simply fabulous! And yet change is in the air; the sun might not have given in but the flora has had enough, it’s moved on, arranging yellows, reds, golds and browns in stunning arrays. Autumn is on its way, if seemingly a little reluctantly. That sense of change never seems to end, it is the way of life. In this issue we’re already looking back at the 2016 enduro world championship, and for what was a year of big change it’s as nothing as to what will come in 2017. We look back, too, at the 2016 Welsh Two Day Enduro, as we experienced it – with all the ups and downs as all clubmen experience most weekends. Incidentally, we’ve accompanying videos (professionally made) to go with the W2D story, so do check them out at our YouTube Rust Sports channel. An adventure riding friend of ours, Chris Stephens, meanwhile has found his way onto the Road of Bones in Siberia, a trail that exists only on account of the ambitions one of history’s sternest, cruelest regimes. And there in the adventure sector, too, change is a-coming. With the autumn-winter motorcycle show season fast approaching, the expectation is this is the way, let’s not mistake a CRF450L with the CRF450RX Honda have just year we’ll see some very exciting new arrivals in the sector – KTM are launched – an all-new enduro (minus lights and street-homologation). expected to reveal an 800cc twin-cylinder adventure bike, BMW quite And hey, what’s with the Honda X-ADV scooter? Gotta love inventive possibly will spring us a lightweight-adventure machine based on their new thinking like that! G310 platform, Yamaha are understood to have a 700cc twin-cylinder Yep, the only constant is change. If it’s all too much, well, take Ténéré pending and could Honda surprise everyone with a CRF450L to fill some time to sit down and have a good read on us. This issue is the gap between their hugely successful CRF250L and CRF1000L? By the coming with more pages than ever. (Note to self – write less.) Gallery Three Colours Red (Bull) 1. Diary of Antonio Cairoli: Sunday 25 September 2016 Dear Diary: Not a bad day today. Raced at the Motocross of Nations (again!!!). Took two runner-ups, not bad given my year so far (as you well know). Could just about cope with Romain beating me, but Jeffrey – I don’t know, jeez that kind of left me pissed, and he’s going to be, like, my team mate next year. A fast little punk, that’s for sure. Might need to play some mind games. Or retire. Still, a nice day, good to see such a big crowd for my home venue. Bit short of talent in Team Italy, though – have we really run that short of riders? Forza bloody Italia indeed. Anyway, gotta go, sounds, and smells, like Jill’s trashing the kitchen again, LOL… Pic: Ray Archer, KTM Gallery Three Colours Red (Bull) 2. Diary of Dougie Lampkin: Sunday 25 September 2016 Dear Diary: Sonovabitch… Wheelie around the TT course – how hard can it be? Bloody-bloody-bloody hard – hey Dave Taylor: chapeau my friend, chapeau. I’m not doing that again, is it the physical agony, or the mental torture? And next time Jake says, ‘all day it’s sun’ I’m going to kick him in the bollo..s. Sun, my arse. Nothing like rain when you’re wearing a bum-freezer of a leather blouson jacket (that’s Jake again…!). And heck, goggles would have been a good idea, next time goggles. Next time? What am I saying, no, there is no next time. Still, the pie and mash at the Thirsty Pigeon never tasted so good. So tired now. Bed beckons – walking the whippets will have to wait until the morning. Night x Pic: Getty Images, Red Bull Content Pool Gallery Three Colours Red (Bull) 3. Diary of Tony White: Sunday 25 September 2016 Dear Diary: What a mint day. Rode the Timber Woods Long Distance Trial. Took the KTM 500EXC – short of a BMW 1200 GS it seemed one of the sillier bikes to take. Stupidly, it was actually alright and but for a couple of stalls – it doesn’t like the super-tight – I might have come away with something by way of an award! Hey ho. Cracking day’s ride though; felt like the last day of summer; there were still leaves in the trees, but they’re turning gold and brown and starting to fall – looked great in the low afternoon sun, gotta love Kent. Note to self – take the Red Bull sticker off the mudguard, Tim and Andy kept saying ‘ay-up, here comes Tony Bloody Cairoli!’ Pic: JB Back Issues www.rustsports.com ISSUE #1 ISSUE #2 ISSUE #3 ISSUE #4 ISSUE #5 ISSUE #6 ISSUE #7 Subscribe for free at www.rustsports.com Introduction to RUST Magazine. The 2016 Beta and KTM model THE 2016 Husqvarna model Race test of 2015 250EXC and JB’s Instant Factory Set-Up – JB’s first editorial. Interview with Interview with David Knight OBE. and we’ll e-mail you every time a new 2015 KTM 250EXC vs 2015 ranges tested. Warren visits the launch. The KTM 250XC-F 2015 Husqvarna TE350 on the Suspension for the amateur Jonny Walker. Dispatches – The What happened to the KTM 690 Yamaha WR250F shootout. 2016 Motocross of Nations. tested. The Suzuki V-Strom 650 Grappe de Cyrano. Testing the rider. TRF main-men Mario TRF answers back. Profile of Adventure? Dispatches – In issue comes out... Trail test of the Chinese made Pitgirl rounds up the 2015 EWC and Pitgirl’s analysis of the 2015 Honda CB500X Adventure. Costa Sa and Greg Villalobos Patsy Quick, boss of Desert Rose praise of the Honda CRF250L. WK400 Trail and columns from Season, plus columns from Si EWC Season. Columns from Pitgirl on beating the offf-season interviewed, plus columns from Racing. RUST long-termers Pt1. The Michelin Anakee Wild Chris Evans, David Knight and Melber and Rick Kemp... Chris Evans, Gary Freeman blues and columns from JB and Rick Kemp and Si Melber... Tested – Products for the Honda adventure tyre. Chris Evans... and Si Melber... Gary Freeman... Gary Freeman... CRF250L. Gary Freeman column DUELTWO RIDERS, TWO KTMS, ONE TITLE... issue #9 Issue #8 ISSUE #8 ISSUE #9 ISSUE #10 ISSUE #11 ISSUE #12 ISSUE #13 ISSUE #14 Yamaha’s ‘new’ WR250 tested, Duel – Two riders, two KTMs, 700KM on a KTM450EXC. 2017 KTM model range tested. Heritage – The BMW R nineT SWM returns! 10 reasons why Yamaha WR450F finally tamed. the Royal Enfield Himalayan one title, Ivan Cervantes and Looking for Mexico with Thomas EnduroGP the new face of tested. Dispatches – Too light, you should buy a SuperTénéré. SWM RS650R ridden and rated. adventure bike, Iron Men – 3000 Matt Phillips battle it out. Wielecki. Tested – Warren and World Enduro by Pitgirl. Gary too fast, too good looking? RUST do the Welsh – Part 1. RUST do the Welsh – Part 2. miles off-road on Harleys! The Yamaha IT490, 40 years on. JB on the latest kit, plus a Freeman with more MX insight... Travelling across the Alentejo Scott Prospect goggles, Chris Knighter column - finally. July The Adventure Motorcycling Tested – Kit reviewed by Josh column by Chris Evans... region of Portugal on a KTM Evans column and the first part Behl adventure column. Handbook – 7th Edition. Snowden... 450EXC... of the Honda TLR project... Alpinestars SX-1 knee guards... HONDA CRF1000L HUSQVARNA 701 YAMAHA WR450F 2016 BMW GS TROPHY MADAGASCAR 2017 BETA RANGE 2017 HUSQVARNA AFRICA TWIN ENDURO/SM SPECIAL EDITION SPECIAL EDITION SPECIAL EDITION SPECIAL EDITION SPECIAL EDITION SPECIAL EDITION SPECIAL EDITION RUST tests the all-new Yamaha RUST joins the GS Trophy riding JB joins the Touratech United JB braved the heat and went to Full test of the 2017 Husqvarna RUST gets the exclusive world’s Test of the new Husqvarna 701 WR450F in the hills of Andalusia, across Northern Thailand on People of Adventure expedition Beta’s home town just outside model range, with New for 2017, first test of the new Honda Enduro and 701 Supermoto Southern Spain... board the latest BMW R1200GS to the island of Madagascar... Florence to test ride all the some history and the final CRF100L Africa Twin! latest 2017 models..