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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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916 like no other • This Ducati 916 was keeping swarms of ZX-7RRs and GSX-R750s behind it at the Manx GP until disaster struck…

BMW's going on a Ténéré hunt • With pukka rally styling and more power, the new F900GS is a strong contender for middleweight adventure honours

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Just like Nori's • …except road legal and newer. Get a shift on and you can buy this ultra-rare, brand spankers 1999 Yamaha OW-02 at the Stafford Show

As hot as it gets • If you’re on an A2 licence, life can’t get much more exciting – or expensive – than the new Aprilia RS457

New Daytona beckons • Spy shots show Triumph’s new middleweight sportsbike is nearly ready for the showroom. But it ain’t no 675 replacement

BSA Gold Star • Charming throwback single for breezy Sunday bend-swinging, yes – but everyone wants to know what a bike is really capable of, right? Only Bike analyses new motorcycles to this depth…

The Road • A celebration of UK tarmac

'Burnouts and wheelies in the marquee'

BMW's healing power

SHORE THING • Weekends are your window of biking opportunity, a chance to do something amazing… like riding on a beach. We head to probably the craziest road in the UK…

Where we went…

And now for something completely different • Make memories at four more unforgettable locations…

My greatest weekend • We ask everyone from Kevin Schwantz to Vic Reeves what constitutes a corking biking weekend. Oddly, only one involves winning a 500cc Grand Prix…

Best two-dayers • Unforgettable weekends from the golden memories of Bike’s staff…

MotoE • World championship electric motorcycle racing recently arrived in Britain for the very first time. Bike spent two days asking a battery of questions…

PERFECT WEEKENDERS • Couple of days away? Want luxury, speed and sophistication? These four are as good as it gets. Provided you’ve been blessed with a stout inside leg…

Multistrada V4 Rally • Oozing build quality and fizzing with technical innovations, the Ducati is astonishing. And £27,140-worth of astonishing does this…

Triumph Tiger 1200 Rally Explorer • Ok, so the name is a word salad but the bike itself is a feast of high mileage luxury. Better than a GS? Let’s find out

BMW R1250GS Adventure TE • Can the soon-to-be-replaced GS really compete with its bigshot rivals? Oh yes. There’s a reason these sell better than Saturday night curries…

KTM Super Adventure R • Prefer your luxury touring to be undertaken with the front wheel in the air? You’ll be needing the 158bhp Adventure R

Verdict

Fantic a bit too frantic • Caballero 700 has oodles of promise, but isn’t quite the fun-for-all bike we hoped for

'I thought I was going insane' • Lee Johnston has won a TT and a British championship. Last May he very nearly died at the North West 200. He talks about his near-death experience, PTSD and thinking he was going insane

Lee Johnston...