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Slide order of chips • New BMW S1000RR electronics let you dial in the angle of drift you want into and out of corners. Plus there's more power and downforce

All hail DIY Hypermono • Ducati's Supermono lit up race tracks in the 1990s. Now a 90bhp single with a funny front end aims to repeat the feat in the 2020s

Electricity is dead • … maybe not quite, but what if electric bikes aren't the answer? Three ex-KTM designers come up with a hydrogen-powered alternative. The Hydra…

Pillion-loving Multi • New Multistrada V4 Rally looks rufty tufty but is actually a pillion-friendly softy

90bhp, lots of tech & £6999… • New Honda CB750 Hornet arrives packing killer numbers. It could shake up the market like the MT-07 did

Phil Read, RIP • A tricky character, no question. But as a GP racer he'll be remembered as one of the all time greats

‘No better than a mouse-mat’ • Fake and uncertified bike gear is all over the place. But things are improving…

Honda's electric charge

Atlas gone south

New Bondy Speed Triple

Chrissy Rouse

Dirty retro

If it were my money… • As watching the quids is so important Mike Armitage goes depreciation-proof

Upgrade your GS

Killer Teslas under scrutiny

Triumph go MX in 2024

Supermono returns?

KTM sells MVs

Deals on wheels • Old-school bikes at old-money prices is a grand idea. Former Bike editor Phil West shines a round headlight on this month's bargain retros

Ducati DesertX • Ducati's first pukka dual-purpose tool is so good it won our Bike of the Year award. Now it's time to find out precisely how the DesertX performs under Bike's exclusive in-depth analysis…

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Made in Britain • It's been a soap opera of success, failure, rebirth and more, but here in 2022 the British bike industry is in rude health. The movers and shakers of our home-built bike resurrection are…

Buy a Norton… what really? • £16,499 is a stack of money for a bare-bones, 77bhp pushrod twin, yet the revised Commando 961 makes a compelling case for that level of indulgence. Or at least the thought of it…

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Arc is the bench, mark • It's taken a while, but the electric Arc Vector is here. We ride the final prototype…

Pinstriping • The great British motorcycle industry was, and is, built on mad skills. One of the oldest is pin striping, as practised by clever people at Triumph. Bike's Paul Lang investigates just how hard this type of thing is. Very. Apparently…

Sent to Coventry… • … and Redditch. Dickie Fincher takes a tour of the West Midlands – birthplace of both Triumph and Royal Enfield – and discovers many reasons to be cheerful about British bikes, past and present…

35 years and still racing You've got to hand itto… • Jeremy...