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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.

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Magnificent (R) Seven • New R7 uses brilliant MT-07 engine and frame to create tempting new middleweight sportsbike

Electricity board • Italian customiser connects the past (boardtracking), with the present (electrickery). Ready, steady, charge…

Gold rush • MV Agusta’s new Rush gets more midrange, more comfort… and a crate full of go-faster bits

Speedier Twin • Big-selling Triumph Speed Twin gets more power, uprated electronics and completely new front end…

Captain America rides again? • Arguably the world’s most famous motorcycle has been sold yet again. But is it the real thing? Well, some of it certainly is…

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

If it were my money... • Mike Armitage, Bike deputy editor and all-weather big-mile road rider, on his pick of Retros

Deals on wheels • Too hard, too fast, too small, yeah yeah - but nothing else has the thrill, potential or steering precision of a sportsbike. Save a bundle and streak into summer...

Yamaha MT-09 • Already powered by one of the standout internal combustion engines of the last 20 years, this year’s substantial redesign means a larger and freer-revving inline three engine for the evergreen MT. Does it really live up to the claims?

3 ways MotoGP is getting faster in 2021 • Excluded from pitlane by Covid, MotoGP technical analyst Neil Spalding has been watching a lot of telly. These are three things that he’s spotted.

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40 CRUCIAL MILES… • The name of the new Harley-Davidson Pan America 1250 S suggests epic, continent crossing adventures, but the first UK ride was a brief, wet and wiggly excursion in Wales. That can’t answer every question, but the signs are very encouraging…

10 REASONS WHY BSB WILL ROCK IN 2021 • Ex-WSB and BSB star James Haydon explains why you need to get a weekend of racing in the diary. Round 1 is 26-27 June at Oulton Park. Be there.

World Supperbikes • On the left is Tom Sykes, top-class racer chasing another World Superbike title, along with the rest of his team, on a factory BMW. And on the right Mike Armitage, a road rider revelling in an evening ride to the chip shop…

WSB Blighty feast

COMEBACK KINGS • As Marc Marquez has discovered, if you’re a professional motorcycle racer you will get hurt, probably badly. That’s just the way it is. Indeed, the ability to bounce back from injury is just as important as the ability to ride fast around corners. Sometimes, however, riders don’t so much bounce back from injury as crawl…

‘The story of my life is trying to overcome difficult times’ • Franco Morbidelli probably has the coolest head in the 220mph world of MotoGP, but his calm demeanour conceals a difficult past

TOUR DE FORCE • Time was when the sports tourer department was where good bikes went to retire. But not now. Today’s adventure-influenced high-risers are a force to be reckoned with. Yamaha’s new Tracer 9 GT thrusts its way between Triumph’s Tiger 900 GT Pro and BMW’s F900XR TE…

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