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1984. A great year for films, a seminal year for music, and the year Kawasaki stole Suzuki’s Katana 1100 thunder with their all-new watercooled GPZ900R. Overnight, superbikes had suddenly entered the computer age

A KTM 990, Honda Transalp and BMW HP2 get stuck into the muddy action at the WRC Wales Rally as we go searching for freestyle legend Travis Pastrana

If you want a bike to have fun on, to commute on, to explore and maybe even have an adventure on, then you really need one of these.

Sometimes bikes are launched that fail to excite and slip under the biking radar for one reason or another. We find three of the best.

Once upon a time they built unassuming bikes that were so good from the word ‘go’ that they didn’t change once during their production run

Last year Aprilia's Tuono and Triumph's Speed Triple topped the street bike sales charts in the UK. What makes these bikes catch rider's imaginations

The new Moto Guzzi V7 Classic could be the perfect bike if you are looking for a classic but don’t want to get your hands dirty.

Bimota, sadly now without a UK importer, continue making some of the prettiest bikes in the world. The 1098-powered DB7 is divine...

When you absolutely, positively, have to go completely stark raving mad this weekend there is only one path to take

The Street Triple is already Triumph's best selling bike ever, but will this hotted-up version cause more sales to flood in?

The pool of great-looking alternative sports machines continues to grow, welcome then, to the Shiver and Street Triple

The Adventure gets an electronic kick up the arse for 2008 with the most sophisticated suspension system fitted to a production bike

Mildly revised for 2008 with new wheels and handlebars, TWO puts Triumph's mighty naked through its paces

Thinking of buying a 1098R Ducati? Check out our first ride report of the ultimate factory superbike for the road

A classic headbanger's bike, the SRAD and 750Y models of the legendary GSX-R were once giant killers. But how do they stand the ravages of time?

Upon its launch, the 2001 GSX-R1000 swept all before it. Six years later it is still arguably the best of the litre sports bike brood, but how does it handle in the fiercely fought second-hand sector?

Designed to take on and beat the Ducatis in WSB, the SP-1 and SP-2 did just that. But how does it fare in the more cut-throat world of used sales? Bertie Simmonds finds out.

Seven 1,000cc streetbikes with no fairings, low top speeds and stacks of attitude. With your head stuck out in the breeze 100mph really feels like 100mph - welcome back to proper biking

Welcome to a world of high tea, cucumber sandwiches, and screaming petrol engines as the naked middleweights tear into...

Urry's been to Hungary to track test KTM's super spec Super Duke.

Who the hell let Urry out on a bike that expensive? He'll bring down Lloyds of London if he falls off.

It's a monster mash touring bash on the mightiest mile-eaters motorcycling can muster. Wallflowers need not apply.

Yamaha's YZF-R1 goes head-to-head with itself in a bitter, old-versus-new family feud. Niall Mackenzie splits the difference in sunny southern Spain.