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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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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…

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If it were my money... • Gloomy weather coming? Who cares? Mike Armitage offers fine ways to keep enjoying riding

Deals on wheels • Small bikes are soaring as youngsters get back on two wheels – time to get your teen (or other half/work mate/whoever) rolling on a high-value 125

Kawasaki ZX-10R • There were plenty of tweaks for this year’s green superbike, including improved aerodynamics for performance at speed and lower gearing for sharper acceleration. Time to see what difference it all makes...

The secrets of ECUs • Flashing, maps, encryption? Delve inside your bike’s black box with Andy Cartledge, chief electronics expert at BSD Performance

The Road • A celebration of UK tarmac

‘The dog was fast and knew the facility’ • Bike, Media House, Lynch Wood, Peterborough, PE2 6EA

‘Like something The Banana Splits would ride’

Write off

THE RECYCLERS • Sure they don’t appear to be the height of ecological responsibility but, incredibly, these four bikes are built on hand-me-downs from yesterday’s superbike heroes. Good genes, is good genes

‘I can’t ever see me stopping riding’ • When Valentino Rossi retires Leon Haslam will become the Grand Old Man of world-championship racing. But the 38-year-old, who has broken his legs seven times, has no plans to stop racing, let alone riding...

Howls & growls gloriously • In the market for something naked? It’s a tough choice and MV have now made it one bike harder

Second opinion • » John Westlake takes the new MV for a 1000-mile long weekend round Wales

BIG THRILLS NO FRILLS • Some of the world has been crying out for a fun, low-cost sportsbike for normal folk on real roads. Well, here it is...

It’ll do track too

To tour? Or to adventure? • With hot-poop adventure bikes now the go-to device for mile-munching, are traditional tourers redundant? Ducati’s Multistrada V4 S and BMW’s R1250RT take a 2000-mile dash to the Bol d’Or and back in search of answers

Back to the Bol • Thirty-three years after Roland Brown and his Honda RC30 last raced at the Bol d’Or they are reunited. There’s been sadness and hard work along the way. But all’s well that…

On the podium at Spa

‘And the winners are...’

Bad, bad, bad, bad vibrations • Things you don’t often hear down the pub: ‘lads I’m going to buy a German bagger’. Funny that...

Cracking the norse road • If the Earth had edges Iceland would be one of them: wild; other worldy; a wilderness; but not. And what better place to go to” escape a pandemic than the edge of the world…

The game it is a changing • CFMOTO’s fresh 700CL-X might just be the...