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JB sees a weather window, scores a weekend pass (extended) and hits the trails…
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JB sees a weather window, scores a weekend pass (extended) and hits the trails…
DESERT ROSE RACING – real people doing real things – as (not) seen on social media…
With the Malle London guys announcing their dates for the next Malle Mile Beach Race – May 20-22 – RUST looks back at their 2021 event
RUST goes to deepest Wales to sample Yamaha Off Road Experience’s Tenere Tour – and finds that adventure riders can do a lot with a little…
DAKAR RALLY 2022 will explode into action in a matter of days. With big changes to the teams, the bikes and the rally, we’re asking who’s going to prevail?
RUST recently joined GasGas UK in Derbyshire for a product launch come ‘experience’ – aka United in Dirt…
Rally Moto are fast developing the rally roadbook scene in the UK. Their latest offering is the Extreme roadbook. Coming soon: the digital roadbook. Our editor, JB, experienced both at the recent Salisbury Plain Adventure Rally
Pol Tarres features in a new mini-film, ‘A Thousand Ways to Die’ – and yes, between the laughs, we’ll be in awe of his riding on his Yamaha Tenere
We’ve been testing WP’s latest XPLOR Pro suspension for four months now. In RUST 50 you’ll find our performance review, here we have the settings we arrived at after that testing…
Just a few years back(!) TBM’s James Barnicoat took a look at three ages of the rally bike starting with a dakar-racing BMW F650GS from 2005
Flashback 2009:
Husaberg was stunning the enduro world with their new 70º slanted four-stroke motor. Radical and very effective though it was, TBM’s publisher Si Melber set to pondering its future – and with some accuracy foretold of its demise: “sometimes a sound idea remains nothing more than just an evolutionary dead-end…”Â
February – hey, doesn’t Hell’s Gate normally take place about now? Indeed it does/did. So let’s look back 12 years to the 2009 edition, when Dougie Lampkin gave it a go – and podiumed!
How did Honda achieve back-to-back wins in the Dakar Rally? In this excellent recap the team give us a really insightful look behind the scenes
With the recent announcement that there will be further a BMW Motorrad International GS Trophy coming in 2022 – this time to be run in Albania – this is a good time to let the uninitiated know just what this event is about – and how to get on board.
A twin battles with a triple at the Rally Moto Tour of Wales Challenge. Actually the fight was bigger than that as the weather proved the biggest battle
Here’s one from our archive – the collective wisdom of the staff of RUST and TBM on going H&H racing.It’s a long one, so get comfortable…
Back in 2018 we ran a Suzuki V-Strom 650XT as a long termer. Wanting to go more off-road on it we needed to up-spec certain aspects. Here are the highlights of that light makeover
With a little bit of time to hand RUST has brought together a new video edit on the Californian dirt bike scene – as viewed by JB, Warren – oh, and Roger De Coster!
Since its launch in 2016, the Adventure Country Tracks programme has set big bike adventure routes across Europe. RUST was there on the very first: ACT Portugal
Flashback to 2014: we rode the Cambrian Rally on its 20th anniversary. But we did more than ride, we took in the sport’s history and looked at all aspects. If rally interests you, read this!
Looking for some chilled-out fun post-lockdown? Long distance trials are a great day out. TBM/RUST took in one a few years back and loved the experience
We’re all in lockdown, still. So we’re taking the opportunity to look back at what has been, year-by-year RUST’s journey to here. And we’re doing it pictorially. So, yes, this was RUST’s 2017…
Welcome to part two of Chris Stephen’s America’s Trans America Trail (TAT) report. Here he recounts how six trail-mad Kiwis made their way from Utah to the Pacific coast…
Back in RUST #39 JB rode in the Mojave Desert with 3Bros KTM’s Ricardo Barbosa. He enjoyed the ride so much he vowed to return. And he has, along with Warren M. this time. Ricardo again was our guide and this time he took us to one of his old racing stomping grounds, one of historic notoriety – Barstow…
A day out riding the hills of Powys with Yamaha’s Ténéré Experience (riding the XT1200ZE Super Ténéré) got us thinking about how these big adventure bike relate to the rest of dirt biking. Similar, but different. If you’ve not tried one yet, here’s a sample of what you’re missing. Not an exhaustive ‘how to’ but a discussion document…
RUST loves the big rides. One for the to-do list post pandemic is America’s Trans Am Trail (TAT). This ride report from JB’s old mate Chris Stephens should be inspiration enough as it recounts how six trail-mad Kiwis took on what they called the best of the West…
This is Sand Raiders, a rally that pays wonderful homage to Dakar’s fantastic past…
2013: Jane Daniels was the UK’s second highest performer in EWC, with four podiums from six rides – and this after breaking her back in training…
2013: Emma Bristow, then British womens’ trials champion (and No.2 in the world), turned up for the World SuperEnduro Championship at the Echo Arena in Liverpool never having raced an enduro – what happened next stunned the audience
Flashback to 2013: Jessica Gardiner brought Aussie sass and can-do to the world of Women’s EWC – and the Euros loved it. She’s won six ISDE crowns and a French championship since…
RUST puts KTM’s 2020 250EXC TPI up against Husqvarna’s TE250i in an all-Mattighofen shootout. Same motor (near-enough) but quite different chassis packages – which will win?
Has the golden age of the adventure middleweight already been and gone? Did it happen before we’d even created the ‘adventure’ bike category? And if so, RUST asks do we need them back?
Chris Scott has over three decades of experience of riding in the Saharan region. He’s written a fair few books on the subject – inspiring the likes of round-the-world riders Austin Vince and Ewan & Charley. His best-selling book, the Adventure Motorcycle Handbook, has become the bible of adventure motorcyclists.
RUST took Honda’s latest CRF1100L Africa Twin for a bimble around Devon and a day of in-person off-road tuition at the Honda Adventure Centre.
FLASHBACK 2013: Graham Jarvis has had such a long career at the top that you pick any year in the last decade and yes there’s his name at the top of the results sheet. That’s before we consider his international trials career before hard enduro.
2018: Taddy Blazusiak is back in hard enduro not even a year after retiring. Turns out he missed racing too much. Part of that might have been fuelled by his friendship and partnership with fellow hard enduro racer Jonny Walker. We got them to sit down together and pick over each other’s lives…
Back in 2006 JB was looking for a quick getaway with a difference. With five days available, including travel, he chose Morocco for a mini adventure…
