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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.

‘It’ll be at least £25k’ • Electric bike expert reckons new Triumph could be superb, but it will cost. And it will cost a lot…

New for old trailie! • Beneath the classic coveralls is a bright orange/sharp lined KTM 790 Adventurer – the old and the new in perfect harmony

Got any fences need jumping? • Triumph’s new Steve McQueen limited edition Scrambler pays homage to The Great Escape

The original bike

First among equals • All Moto2 bikes are meant to be the same, so what makes Sam Lowes’ bike a winner?

More like a Bullet • This Interceptor 650 has just obliterated the land speed record for its class. And you can fit most of the go-faster bits to your Enfield twin

Braking News • From the wonderful to the weird, Bike’s pick of this month’s stories from the motorcycling worlds

Deals on wheels • See that glimmer? That’s the light at the end of the Lockdown tunnel. Celebrate with an eye-rubbing deal on some seriously attractive new machinery

20 vital seconds • How have Suzuki managed to make their Hayabusa Euro 5 compliant? Jamie Turner explains and wonders what they could have built? V6 anyone…?

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‘You can hear them for miles, blipping down their boxes’

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THE LEGEND REBORN • In this world of shifting cams, electrical engines and radar cruise control the Hayabusa seemed rightfully condemned. Yet it’s Aback, and it feels pleasingly familiar. Excellent, let’s go to work…

When digital and mechanical collide

How to make a legend do 200mph • Being famous for one thing is an excellent strategy, and one which has paid off well for the Hayabusa. But how do you hit that mythical 200mph on the Suzuki?

£4500 worth of legend • Hayabusa hysterics don’t have to cost seventeen-grand. In fact, you only really need spend a quarter of the price

I bought one

‘I spent six months never getting further than the couch’ • Ten years after winning his second MotoGP world title Casey Stoner tells us why he doesn’t regret retiring at his peak and how he’s dealing with his latest challenge: chronic fatigue syndrome

Casey Stoner’s CV

Peer pressure • On the face of it what we have here is an evenly balanced battle of the nakeds. But no. What we actually have here are brothers, but with very different DNA. Right then, it’s Aprilia’s techy Tuono 660 v Triumph’s, throwback, Trident 660 and Yamaha’s funtastic MT-07…

Buy a used Street Triple

Buy a used Aprilia Tuono

Buy a used Yamaha MT-07

And your starter for £13k… • The entry fee to Harley-Davidson world has gone up. Considerably. But if you want a Harley…

To Scotland... on a croissant • A Royal Enfield Interceptor might not seem like the most obvious bike to ride on the 1250-mile, southern Cornwall to northern Scotland, Great Malle Rally. But it was easily up to the job...

Touring on an Interceptor

Great Malle Rally 2021

The LiveWire Challenge • With climate change likely to make Covid look like a broken...