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Trident rocks the middleweights • Triumph look to reinvent the new-to-big-bike market with their 660cc Trident. Look out MT-07, CB650 and Z650...

Battling baggers • What started as a daft idea has blossomed into the most entertaining racing in ages

Okay computer • More and more customisers are turning to computers for design and fabrication. Which is clearly a good thing..

The Real R18 • BMW’s new R18 retro cruiser has opened our eyes to the bikes that inspired it, like this 1928 R57...

Every which Rea but lose • Kawasaki and Jonathan Rea leave no screw unturned when it comes to creating the best bike on the WSB grid

Braking News • From the wonderful to the weird, Bike’s pick of this month’s stories from the motorcycling world…

Deals on wheels • There’s tinsel and goose fat in the shops, so that’s perfect justification for treating yourself to an early Christmas present. Don’t wrap it, I’ll ride it...

Less is more? • Ducati ditch desmo valve operation for their new Multistrada. Sacrilege, or sound engineering? Jamie Ttirner lifts the lid on the valve spring version of the V4...

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THE NEW BIKES OF 2021 • From Aprilia to Zero there’s something for everyone in Bike’s 15-page new bike special. Plus talking tyres, radar and cylinder switching…

2021 new bikes at a glance • New bike announcements are coming in fits and starts this year, but this is what we know so far…

Technical trends of 2021 • Cylinder switching, radar and taller, narrower tyres are the talking points on this year’s new bikes. So where have these changes come from and why are they happening? Bike talks to the experts…

It’s like riding with a chauffeur • New R1250RT takes you by the hand and even leads you to your door

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‘Utility isn’t sexy’ • BMW announce updates and revisions to existing models, but want to talk about electric scooters

World’s most high-tech bike • Ducati take the next technological step with radar control, cylinder deactivation and seriously impressive service intervals

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Come on Honda! • Honda’s design centre in Rome produces amazing concepts year after year but instead of those radical new models, we get conservative updates instead

If you like to get muddy… • … KTM’s 890 Adventure is good off-road. But are you going to go off road? Really?

They do make ’em like they used to… • Triumph’s new Trident will shake up the middleweights - especially as it promises the character of the original Street Triple

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Aiming for the top • Yamaha’s 900 triples helped re-invigorate motorcycling in the last decade. Can these updates keep them on top?

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‘We were right’ • How Yamaha’s MT series changed the biking world

‘Even then it was clear he was a GENIUS’ • In 1995 Valentino Rossi set about his first season of international racing, aged 16. His results weren’t stellar, in fact he didn’t manage to win one of the 11 rounds of the 125cc European...