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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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Team Bike • This 50th anniversary issue of Bike was assembled with love, dedication, and more than a hint of panic, by a group of people with a very personal interest in the title

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5 BIKES THAT REALLY MATTER THIS MONTH

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... • Mark Williams, Bike’s founding father on the four temptations he currently wants for his garage

Deals on wheels • Make the most of the sunshine with a sizzling summer deal direct from the manufacturers themselves. Hurry, it’ll be winter before we know it…

Ducati Monster • It’s enjoyed the largest shake-up in its expansive model life and completely revised what we expect of a Monster. But exactly where do the changes place the new Ducati? Time to don a white lab coat and get all analytical...

The Road • A celebration of UK tarmac

Write Off • Bike, Media House, Lynch Wood, Peterborough, PE2 6EA

‘The Honda CB175 road test was the first where a bike scored top marks’

1971 v 2021 • It’s easy to look back through rose-tinted rear-view mirrors, but truth is 1971 motorcycling was very different to today. Bike’s founding editor Mark Williams looks back five decades while current contributing editor John Westlake points out when Mark’s selective memory may have got the better of him…

The Bikes of our time • The history of Bike is gilded by many excellent motorcycles. A roster of (ex) staffers consider their pick from five decades of motorcycle evolution...

‘Changing the prop shaft surrounded by smoking volcanoes’ • There’s something about motorcycles that brings on wanderlust. Egged on by Bike Chris Jagger went global…

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‘A triumphant ode to optimism, to listening to the call not excuses’ • Bike blurred the lines between life and work so much so that Ben Miller and the magazine became inseparable…

Moroccan dash • Two up to Africa on a ZX-9R. In three days. Because you can. And not a knobblie in sight. Dan Walsh rocks the Casbah

‘I even liked the ads... this was a portal to another world’ • In these days of multi-platform media overload Martin Lambert remembers how life changing paper can be

OIL CITY SLICKERS • Two of the most amazing overbored, supercharged, custom motorcycles you’ll ever see live in a city 500 miles north of London. Story Peter Watson.

50 YEARS LATER... • Five decades on from the launch of Bike and look how far we’ve come. Motorcycles with technology that wouldn’t look amiss on Kirk’s USS Enterprise, 36,000-mile major service intervals, amazing performance, do-it-all remits. In a nutshell 21st century adventure bikes...

THIS IS WHERE IT STARTED… THIS IS WHERE IT IS TODAY • 50 years ago the great-grandaddy of today’s Desmosedici MotoGP bike barely lasted a season, but if this 500cc V-twin hadn’t been built Ducati might not exist today – no 916, no Panigale, no racing…

HERE’S TO GOING TOO FAR… • Utterly bonkers engine, the most innovative motorcycle chassis ever built, outrageous styling, and it actually works. We’re in…

50 years of Bimota in Bike

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