Features

The average road bike does a bit of everything. But there are machines in the biking world designed to do one job only. Pure specialists if you will. These are the bikes...

Why wait for Spring to come to you when you can get the best of the warming weather abroad?

Take one mountain, gently sculpt the edges to make them extra steep and dangerous, then attack with a motorcycle.

Sharing the podium with Mike the Bike at the '78 TT

Fast road rider? Then you've probably got all these already

Steve Plater takes you through some simple lower body exercises. You might not have to pedal it, but strong legs are still essential to ride fast properly...

In off-road form, the Christini 2WD system is proven and being sold all around the world. Our man rode it in the UK...

The Christini 2WD is devilishly simple, but still remarkably complex. Here’s how it works

They don't rush but they get places fast. What's being filtered out in the mind of a fast filterer?

Do you know what OBD is, how it works. Do you know the difference between the Cat on your bike and the cat on your sofa? Step inside

The path to developing a fully functioning two wheel drive motorcycle is littered with the corpses of past experiments, here are four examples...

Triumph's Meriden Factory Closes in 1983, we speak to one of the men who was there at the time

Phil Price is a bus-pass waving pensioner who also happens to be addicted to trackdays. he might be 60 years old but he holds his own in the fast group...

James Martin is that chef on your TV on Saturday mornings. His passion for tasty food is only matched by his love of fast bikes, fast cars and pretty much anything that runs on super-unleaded

Livia Lancelot is Kawasaki France’s impossibly cool ladies’ motocross World Champion. She’s Europe’s only professional female MX racer...

Which is the best tyre for fast road-riding through winter? You need a combination of feel, grip and longevity. We grabbed James Whitham, a Ducati 848, a datalogger and a huge pile of tyres to find out...

Sidecar cross is Ben Hur minus the horses. Just add fearsome 100bhp 750cc two-strokes instead. Surely the best chance to lose Wozza forever?

London to the French Alps on a 20 year-old Honda CD250. Ridden by someone who only just passed their test a week before. In the depths of winter. And with their snowboard strapped to the side of this rusty shitbox…

Amongst the frozen soil of the coldest Welsh Rally in recent memory, Valentino Rossi was pushing his Stobart Ford to the limit as he barged his way up to 12th place. This is our story of two days tracking down the elusive MotoGP superstar…

Wozza's travels take him to Sweden, where real men ride bikes with just the one footpeg and murderous spinning discs of death where the wheels used to be. This is ice racing. It's insane

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The evolution of a legend and a motorcycling icon: 916 > 996 > 998 > 999 > 1098

You don't often get to see this - a fast car and a sports bike hammering it out on track together. Rockingham's bumpy, twisty National circuit, as it goes. Honda Fireblade or Porsche 911 Turbo: who's the daddy?

Coast-to-coast smokey strokers, Whitham style