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Learn how to get the most out of your bike with set-up tips from Niall Mackenzie

BMW’s best-selling bike for the past three years, Tim Cummings revels in his role as supersub as the GS does what it’s supposed to do...

Six very different bikes with one thing in common – an identical 2,500 miles to cover through France in less than five days. Visordown takes our long-term test fleet out of the comfort zone to find out more about the bikes we thought we knew so well…

...was back in 1984 when the introduction of the Evo 80 resurrected the Screamin' Eagle

Just when I thought I was getting close to reaching cerebral maturity, the 2009 GSX-R1000 showed me that I still had a long way to go.

We all got so used to Honda winning everything for so long that their slow-down in race results, followed by recent pull-outs, have sent wagging tongues into overdrive. What’s really going on at Honda and why?

Punchy, easy-to-handle Terra takes confident Cat and her girly hands through the test and for country weekends

Mick Broom has spent the last three decades building motorcycles for the eccentric millionaire Lord Hesketh’s company. Last month, he finally retired...

Despite sounding like a Greek travel rep Guzzi could be tapping a gold mine with its new adventure bike

Some secondhand bikes have slipped through the insurance net and can be bought and insured for less than half the price of a new supersport machine. We grabbed a 22 year-old student and found the most ridiculous insurance deals on these four

Garry Mackay is head salesman at DK motorcycles, the largest dealer in the country. He could sell your grandma if needed...

The KTM690 Duke and Kawasaki’s ER-6n have plummeted out of the ugly tree, clattering every branch along the way. is that all?

Follow this guide and fit a brand new chain with ease

...to crash a £37,500 Ducati Desmosedici in the UK goes to Glen Whitnall! The second person in Britain to take delivery of the madly-exclusive MotoGP bike explans that it doesn't matter, they're there to be ridden after all...

Sons getting embarrassed by their mums as we went last-minute Christmas shopping on the best sport-tourers in the country

The man responsible for the promotion behind the Austrian firms debut superbike

“The story began in 2002, that was the time we had finished the Adventure and we thought about other ideas to use the V-twin engine. We outsourced it to Kiska to make a prototype, in late 2002 the first prototype was finished and it was rideable. I believe it still exists. The second bike was the show model.

“The RC8 shares only the gears from the LC8. We started with a list of common parts to make the project quicker and reduce costs, but at the end of the day only the forgings for the gears remained the same, the rest is totally new.

From the concept drawing board to the street, Gerald Kiska sculpted the KTM RC8

Simon Saunders is the man behind the bike-beating Ariel Atom, and is now trying to resurrect the Ariel motorcycle name...

17 year-old Josh Wainwright is racing the hard way. sometimes you have to sacrifice everything in life for the chance of going all the way...

An easy learner friendly machine, or a bike with about as much soul as a sandbag? Honda’s middleweight goes for function over style...

Jim Bowen managed to completely spanner a ZX-10R the last time we put him on one. He has never been to the Qatar MotoGP circuit. So, who better to make a complete arse of himself...

It’s just like the 1098 but smaller, right? Er no, actually it isn’t. Ducati has taken a completely new change of tack with its 848