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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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'It marks a new era' • New Bimota KB998 shocks World Superbike paddock and has UK dealers frothing

Sauciest GS ever? • Tasty new BMW F450GS aims at tempting everyone from experienced GS owners craving less weight to trail riders and A2 licensees

No half measures • The new Morini 3½ is no cynical pastiche of a legendary model. For starters, it’s powered by a real V-twin

Back to their roots • CCM reveal Project X, an off-road successor to the much-loved GP450

Break out the flares! • Groovy new BMW R12S expertly channels the 1973 R90S and makes us wish we had £18,460 knocking about

VOGE DS900X V BMW F800GS • Loncin make BMW’s parallel twins and now offer a cut-price adventurer based on the German. Badged as Voge, how’s it compare to the bike it nicks bits from?

GET IN GEAR • The latest word in swanky riding gear, desirable bolt-ons and must-have goodies for your pride and joy

Write Off • Bike, Media House, Lynch Wood, Peterborough, PE2 6EA

'Noughties investments: too soon?'

Britain's BEST-EVER BIKE • With an endless list of iconic models churned out by legendary brands, picking the greatest motorcycle adorned with a Union Flag is no easy task. We rope in a selection of experts and have a crack anyway

'I love it so much I've had four!' • Don’t just take our word for it. As far as serial owner Karen Poppleton is concerned, there’s nothing finer than Triumph’s Street Triple

Britain's BEST-LOVED… • …helmet, and biker café, and race meeting, and more. Here’s motorcycling’s most popular everything of the past 12 months (and beyond)

MotoGP's survivor • Only three riders will get to race a 2025-spec Ducati Desmosedici next season: Marc Marquez, Pecco Bagnaia and Fabio Di Giannantonio. The Italian youngster tells us why his ride to the top has been such a roller coaster

This is where it's at • Biking in Britain is changing. Triumph’s best-selling Speed 400, Royal Enfield’s new Guerrilla and the bargain Zontes Sports Café battle to be the best game-changing ride

Triumph Speed 400 • It’s just like a proper big Bonneville that’s been put on the wrong wash

Royal Enfield Guerrilla 450 • The Indian giants are kings of accessible, high-fun, small-capacity bikes. Means the new ’un has a lot to live up to

Zontes ZT350-GK Sports Café • Looks? Tech? Cool name? All of that. And it’s staggeringly cheap, too

Verdict

[Inside] The Euro Finals • MotoGP not bonkers enough for you? How about zero to 260mph in six seconds? Bike goes backstage at Santa Pod Raceway for the biggest event on the drag racing calendar

Beyond expectation • Nothing gets close to a large sportsbike – it’s an experience truly without equal. Honda’s latest Fireblade has become the darling of British racing, but BMW’s best-selling S1000RR is the pick for British roads… isn’t it? We take a county-hopping dash on sunny tarmac in search of exceptional...