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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…

If it were my money… • Curiously fond of lumpy old things, Mike Armitage picks his single-cylinders fancies

Deals on wheels • Bike sales are reassuringly strong, but there are still dealers who’ll cut you a sharp deal. Mike Armitage reveals this month’s wallet teasers

Royal Enfield Meteor • Nobody else tests motorcycles as rigorously as Bike, and there’s definitely no other publication that treats bikes across the whole of biking in such depth. This month RE’s hugely successful Meteor gets poked, probed and prodded…

Getting to grips with DCT • Unlike many other technologies DCT has struggled to get a foothold in motorcycling. Apart from in the case of serial innovators Honda. Jamie Turner considers the ups and downs

The Road • A celebration of UK tarmac

Write Off

‘Save me from making a tit of myself’

BOLOGNA PUT THE ‘X’ IN EXCEL • It’s been three years since Ducati showed their concept DesertX at the EICMA show. Much development work later and they appear to have invented a rally raid adventure bike that’s ace on the road too…

Ducati speak • Five minutes with Filippo Marri, DesertX Project Manager…

Accessories • Ducati offer five option packs. So, if you fancy personalising your new, standard, DesertX here’s what to do…

Competitor comparison

The forever rivals • MotoGP’s newest stars Enea Bastianini and Jorge Martin have been racing each other for ten years, from Red Bull Rookies to MotoGP. So which one will be the first to win the biggest prize, and does friendship have a part to play in the tough world of racing…

IN PURSUIT OF PERFECTION • Triumph’s all-new Tiger 1200 seriously impressed on its launch but is it really better than BMW’s brilliant and best-selling R1250GS? Bike puts both bikes wheel-to-wheel on road, motorway, trail, proving ground, dyno and scales. It’s the most important test of the year…

Getting them dirty • Want to ride yours like a proper adventure bike? Off-road expert Chris Northover compares Tiger 1200 Rally Pro and R1250GS Adventure in the muck

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Being practical never looked so good • ‘Practical’ can be such a joyless, soul-sapping word. A word oft flung at the bikes we have in this month’s group test. Yet, leave work early, tent strapped on tight-ish and head for the Tan Hill Inn, Yorkshire and our contenders reveal much, much more than their practical reasons to be…

‘I LIKE DOING THINGS THE HARD WAY’ • …so says Charlie Weisel who is in the middle of a transcontinental motorcycle adventure from his home in Colorado, USA as far east as he can ride. On his 10ft 4in long Harley chopper. Easy? Nah.

Charlie’s Harley

A race rep like no other • Spawned from bagger racing, the Low Rider ST is one of Harley’s best ever tourers

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