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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 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.

Bike UK

Norden goes high-rise • Saucy new Husqvarna gets revised suspension and a barrage of long-distance kit as standard…

Madness or genius? • We think both. This, ladies and gents, is a 10-cylinder supercharged radial two- stroke made by one man in a shed

'It will eat Diavels alive' • Buell are back with a Roland Sands designed Super Cruiser. And it's fast..

7922 miles for £50 • Energica EsseEsse9 breaks world record for longest journey by an electric bike

Formula 1 inspired • As a starting point for a custom creation an F1 car's oil tank doesn't immediately spring to mind. Yet for Belgian sculptor Roland Groteclaes it was inspirational…

Seven-year warranty… • …and it's unlimited mileage too. Sinnis reset the standard for new bike peace of mind

Home delivery test rides

Racing cancelled in N. Ireland • There'll be no road racing in N. Ireland this year unless the public stumps up…

Brabus/KTM special sells out in 12 mins

Walker: back at it

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Deals on wheels • Effortless laid-back cruisers are cool again. They also offer some of the largest discounts, as Phil 'feet-forward West proves…

MVTurismo Veloce Lusso SCS • No other publication or interweb site analyses metal quite as deeply as Bike – you can’t read this anywhere else. This month MV Agusta’s exotic all-rounder gets a right good poke and prod and asked some difficult questions…

The Road • A celebration of UK tarmac

'One year a Guy called Martin pitched up'

'Hey, let's do that…'

A LANDMAR K MOMENT • Charismatic and handsome, but now also effective and capable -in the first comprehensive UK test, Moto Guzzi prove they've returned to greatness with their alluring new V100 Mandello

'I'd buy one tomorrow' • Paul Cousin owns a sports-touring legend, Honda's VFR1200. What's he think to the V100?

Back seat driver… • Room for two? Mrs Armitage delivers her opinion from the pillion

'BSB does well because we do give a sh*t… • BSB boss Stuart Higgs has been involved in racing since he was a kkid. This is how a weeliad grew up o

THE NEW BOSS… • …much better, and cheaper, than the old boss. That's right, Honda's new Hornet is causing as much of a stir in 2023 as it's nemesis – Yamaha's MT-07 – did back in 2014…

Honda CB750 Hornet • There are watershed moments in motorcycling that live long in the memory. The arrival of Honda's new Hornet is definitely a moment…

Yamaha MT-07 • In 2014 Yamaha had their own watershed moment with the MT-07. And it's been relatively untroubled by serious competition… until now

Triumph Trident 660 • Today Triumph have the chops to excel in pretty much any motorcycle marketplace. And the Hornet has a job on to best Hinckley's 660…

Kawasaki Z650 • It is Kawasaki who have been most caught cold by the arrival of Honda's new Hornet. Yet for a certain type of rider the long-in-the-tooth Z650 makes for an ideal...