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RiDE helps you get more from your motorcycle. Put together by a team of enthusiastic experts, with help from thousands of committed readers, every issue of RiDE is full of recommendations on bikes, kit, routes, destinations and technique. We speak directly to our readers about their biking lives & use our expertise to steer them towards the good-value option in bikes, trips and kits. We’re famed for our regular Product Tests and eery month provide a comprehensive used-bike buying guide, helping potential owners find the right bike at the right price. Finally... every issue features touring guides and riding advice to help readers explore the world on their bike.

Welcome…

STAR PICTURE

YOUR RIDES • Been somewhere inspirational? Ridden an amazing road? Email ride@ride.co.uk to tell us about your trip and your bike

‘A bimble in the countryside through quaint Cotswolds villages’ • RiDE reader Peter Genet takes us for a gentle stroll round his favourite Gloucestershire back roads

LOCAL KNOWLEDGE • Fancy a bimble? Let Pete be your guide

HOW SECURE ARE OUR TRAILS? • Does the rise in popularity of adventure bikes mean our green lanes are under threat from over-use?

GREEN ROADS - ‘THE TIP OF THE SPEAR’

Super Husky supermoto

Speed cameras go stealth • Unmarked speed-camera van sparks debate about fairness

KTM goes auto

LED upgrades

LETTERS • Email ride@ride.co.uk Write to us RiDE, Media House, Lynchwood, Peterborough PE2 6EA

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RIDE NEW BIKES • THE LATEST BIKES RIDDEN AND RATED

Low on weight, big on ability • KTM's 890 SMT takes the weight out of sports touring and packs in the fun

BEYOND THE HYPE • The bits that actually make a difference

Easy-going mini race-rep

Three is still a crowd

5 things you need to know about… • … Honda’s newly- bagged-up ‘touring’ CMX1100T

Q Is Suzuki’s GSX-8S the new class leader? • Can the new GSX-8S take on Honda’s Hornet to dominate the middleweight naked class?

Q Does its extra weight spoil the handling?

Q Tech now matters in this class - has the GSX-8S got enough?

Q What’s the engine like?

Q Does it feel £1000 better than the Hornet?

Q How well-made is it?

Q What are the best options and add-ons?

Q What will it cost to run?

Q How easy is it to work on?

Q What power does it make?

Q What do RiDE readers think? • Will an SV650 rider want to upgrade?

Q What are its rivals?

A The GSX-8S riding experience is better than Honda’s Hornet

THE LONGEST TEST • We run 2023’s two most talked-about adventure bikes non-stop for 24 hours

LEG 1 PETERBOROUGH TO BRECON AND BACK Honda Transalp • Martin Fitz-Gibbons clocks the miles and takes in what could very well be wales’s best road

LEG 1 PETERBOROUGH TO JEDBURGH AND BACK Ducati Multistrada V4 Rally • Big miles in small time are what the Multistrada and Simon are built for

LEG 2 PETERBOROUGH TO LONDON TO BRIGHTON AND BACK Honda Transalp & Ducati Multistrada V4 Rally • Riding buddies Alison and Justin head to London at night. How will both the bikes and riders cope?

LEG 3 PETERBOROUGH TO BUTTERTUBS PASS AND BACK Ducati Multistrada V4 Rally • Chris heads north in what should be a joyous ride but finds that the Ducati’s tech isn’t to his liking…

LEG 3 PETERBOROUGH TO PEAK DISTRICT TO MABLETHORPE TO PETERBOROUGH Honda Transalp • Matt challenges the Transalp to a day of touring, trail-riding and dual-carriageway-bashing

Hunstanton to Southwold • Editor Matt heads back to his homeland to rediscover a joyful network of East Anglian...