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Team Bike • This magazine is made by the most talented team of bike journalists, writers and photographers in the universe. Here’s what they’ve been doing this month.

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5 BIKES THAT REALITY MATTER THIS MONTH

V-Strom gets dirty • New Suzuki V-Strom 1050DE goes full adventure, while standard model gets big upgrade

The wheel thing • At first glance Massimo Rinchiuso’s Guzzi is impressive enough, then you find out he made the wheels himself…

Cheap adventure • Want a decent adventure bike for £2700 less than a Ténéré 700? This new CFMoto 700CL-X ADV could be the answer

And another… • The only people who gripe about Chinese bikes are 40-somethings. Moto Morini’s new 6½ Street should add to the stress

Win the trackday • Standing out at trackdays is tough, what with the likes of Ducati’s V4 SP2 to deal with. But Aprilia have decided to have a go…

How to start a motorcycle company • British electric bike company Maeving have just sold their 100th bike, just two years after their start-up. And this is how they did it…

End of country lane blasts? No • Surrey council is reducing limits on some rural roads from 60mph to 20 to see what happens. But it’s not as bad as it sounds

Bike solves MotoGP

Bajaj buys Vincent

Cotton just got tough

Jenny Atyeo

Next month

Kermit the Streetfighter

If it were my money… • Which custom builders would John Westlake choose to make a special?

R 100GS for £40,000

Z900RS into GPZ

Unleash the marketing

Party in the Park • Is there a better place to watch superbike racing in the UK than Cadwell? Nope

We love Cadwell

Deals on wheels • Autumn’s golden light and leafy lanes make it adventure time. Mike Armitage picks the best deals on multipurpose machinery

Triumph Tiger 900 Rally Pro • Unique T-plane crank gives a whole new flavour of Triumph triple, but what’s it actually capable of? Bike’s exclusive analysis gets straight to the heart of the gargling Tiger

The Road • A celebration of UK tarmac

We’ll never see their like again • Internal combustion engines have a few years left before being banned. In practice development is already slowing down…

‘It was the year of foot and mouth’

Beware the scum

LETTERS

Look what I’ve bought… • Ex-Bike staffer Martin Fitz-Gibbons relocates to the sunny uplands of preloved bike ownership. He’s been hoping and wishing for his very own MV Agusta for 25 years. It went like this…

Four more phwoarworthy finds

Run-in and ready • Meticulously maintained and lightly used, dealers’ ex-demo bikes are the smart way to get new-bike wow for used-bike cash. And autumn is the time to strike…

Used buy date • We aren’t saying editor Wilson is tight, but he does like a bargain. And with that he set off from the East Midlands to Truro for an assignation with 1650 quids worth of ZX-7R. It’ll be fine…

Worth travelling for? • Cheap bikes in far flung parts of the UK that we found as Bike went to press

Laughs, pure and single • Need more grins and chuckles in your life? You’ll...