BIKE is packed with road tests of new bikes and inspirational riding stories, with fantastic places, amazing races and extraordinary people. Created by a passionate and expert team of motorcycle riders, Bike makes you feel part of the amazing motorcycling world. Our three main areas of content are... Road tests: We ride and test all the latest bikes, from tourers to retros. Riding: We take motorcycles to the four corners of the UK, and the four corners of the world Extraordinary travel stories: amazing races, extraordinary events and astonishing bike people.
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Easy Tiger • The new Tiger 850 Sport is a softer, easier route into Triumph’s adventure bike range
10 new things about the ZX-10R • It’s not a total redesign, but there’s enough happening here to give WSB rivals the willies
Barking! • What better way to spruce up your V-Strom 650 than this?
Rebel with a cause... • As if poor old Harley hadn’t enough to deal with, now Honda are upping their cruiser game...
The thinker’s loon • New S1000R could have been 200bhp, but BMW say that’s daft for a roadster…
Braking News • From the wonderful to the weird, Bike’s pick of this month’s stories from the motorcycling world…
Deals on wheels • Model revisions, discontinuation and cluttered showrooms mean ace deals on a wide range of sportsbike delights. Buy now and tear head-down into 2021
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Planet Earth: the gift that keeps on giving • ‘I’m happiest when I’m nowhere,’ says Igor Shen. ‘When I wake in the middle of the night and can’t figure out what city I’m in, or even what continent I am on. Then, I know I’m travelling hard.’ Igor’s life is a ride of a lifetime…
A CHANGE FOR THE BETTER • Arguably these are worrying days for Ducati-ists as Bologna eschew landmarks such as the trellis frame and Desmo. However, if the new Multistrada is to be believed there is nothing to fret about…
RENT-A-RIDE OF A LIFETIME • Ever wondered how a Vincent Black Shadow feels to ride? Or how the H2’s supercharger pops on the overrun? Or whether the Ducati Streetfighter V4’s wings really do stop it wheelieing at 100moh? Simply rent one and find out
Blast orders • 1000 miles in a day not enough of a challenge? Why not visit the UK’s three highest pubs too? And do the North Coast 500 the day before…
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‘I am like ice, Valentino is like fire’ • 2020 Moto2 runner-up Luca Marini is Valentino Rossi’s half-brother. In 2021 he joins Rossi on the MotoGP grid. So what’s it like being little brother to arguably the greatest motorcycle racer of all time?
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The Kegety Pass and other detours… • Minehead to Magadan, on Russia’s Pacific coast is an almost 16,000-mile ride of a lifetime. lan Chappel points his KTM 1190 east, but discoversIthat such a mammoth undertaking doesn’t come without a unique set of distractions…
Best foot forward • Ginormous motors, serious presence and lashings of easy going forward-control style – the much maligned cruiser is making a genuine claim on being your next ride of a lifetime
FLY RIDES OF A LIFETIME • Choose a fly ride and the world’s your slice of tarmac, or mountain trail. From the familiarity of California to the Himalayas and South East Asia. Motorcycles make memories…
HIGH FIVE • Nothing gets close to the buzz of a great ride. TT winner Mat Oxley, Bike founding editor Mark Williams, Ex-Bike editor Tim Thompson and Bike contributors Mark Graham and Ben Lindley recall their highest times on a bike, or in Mr Graham’s case sinking into a prehistoric bog on the Isle of Man, on a 1981 R80 G/S…
WILDERNESS • Alaska is one of this planet’s great...