Motorbike

There’s a heatwave on out there and you’ve got £4000 to spend on a new bike for summer, but should you go for something refined, something Italian or something plain nuts? Let’s shop...

Expensive, exclusive, esoteric and bordering on erotic, the latest quartet of exotic Europeans are only for a select few

Kawasaki’s all-new ZX-6R is making a big push for the 600. Is it good enough to kick the others into touch? We rode all five to Holland and back to find out...

Subtle just got a whole lot cooler as the already great looking Griso gets an overhaul

BMW continue their rapid expansion with the F800R. With a specification to rival Triumph’s mighty Street Triple, the twin-cylinder BM looks set to lead from the front

A radical new R1 and a spanking new GSX-R taking on the mighty Fireblade and much maligned ZX-10R, the scrap for 1000cc supremacy is closer than ever...

Three years and nearly £20 million in the making, Aprilia’s all-new V4 superbike is a Herculean effort for a firm that five years ago was in dire financial straits. It’s also quite brilliant...

Beautiful retro looks coupled with characterful engine layout, could this be the ultimate Italian pose?

It’s taken Austrian dirt bike peddlers KTM a decade, but the orange House of Madness has finally produced a sensible motorbike. Except it isn’t, not really…

The new 1300GT is BMW doing what they do best; a fast, comfortable mile-muncher

The launch of a new motorcycle used to be a terribly messy, often Bacchanalian affair. In the mid-1990s when the average testosterone-charged tester was 27 years old and the bike industry was booming, marketing managers had vast pots of cash to spend and invariably launches descended into chaos.

The two surviving muscle bikes of the modern age come together for a pose-down and a rideout, but which one is king?

If you thought the S4RS was barking, then think again. Ducati’s latest machine goes right back to streetfighting basics…

Just how much V-twin can you get for £3,500? We track down the best twin-cylinder sports bikes on the market

I've upgraded from the 125s and this is my beast for this year

All-new and more powerful than ever, Ducati's big Monster is back to battle the super-naked benchmark: KTM's Super Duke

Small, light and available in a variety of colours and flavours, never before has the congested middleweight street bike market been so fruity

With brutal styling, real grunt and some trick design touches, the new Muscle is without a doubt the hardest V-Rod yet

Certainly the prettiest and definitely the fastest supermoto yet made, KTM’s new R-model is wonderfully wayward and has a price to match

While Ducati cleaned up in superbike racing with Bayliss and Yamaha the year after with Spies, which is better a production version of their winning bikes?

No traction control, no fancy cranks and no need - the boss is back. Niall Mackenzie falls for Suzuki's new big GSX-R

Surely one of the most technically advanced motorcycles on the market, the K1300R is a bike that does its best to do everything, brilliantly. And, quite honestly, pretty much nails it...

KTM’s mighty Adventure gets the R treatment, creating the most hardcore adventure bike on the market. But when the standard version’s so damn good, is the R an essential overlander or a cynical marketing exercise?

Niall Mackenzie goes walkabout with a pair of Yamaha’s budget bikes in the Australian outback. Disappointingly, Jenny Agutter is nowhere to be seen.