RiDE helps you get more from your motorcycle. Put together by a team of enthusiastic experts, with help from thousands of committed readers, every issue of RiDE is full of recommendations on bikes, kit, routes, destinations and technique. We speak directly to our readers about their biking lives & use our expertise to steer them towards the good-value option in bikes, trips and kits. We’re famed for our regular Product Tests and eery month provide a comprehensive used-bike buying guide, helping potential owners find the right bike at the right price. Finally... every issue features touring guides and riding advice to help readers explore the world on their bike.

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This month’s highlights • What’s got the RiDE team excited in the March issue

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YOUR RIDES • Been somewhere inspirational? Ridden an amazing road? Email ride@ride.co.uk to tell us about your trip and your bike

HERE’S TO THE WIHTER WARRIORS • #Ride5000miles members don’t let the cold hamper their riding

Our best reader routes from 2020 • Over the past year, we’ve featured some great routes nominated by RiDE’s readers. These are our faves…

ALSO TRY THESE

WHY ARE WE CRASHING LESS? • Far fewer bikers are dying on UK roads than 20 years ago. We examine the reasons and look at what we can do to reduce it further

The kit effect

Ducati’s new, streamlined Monster • Monster range reduced and new do-it-all bike introduced

‘The farm trailer I hit had illegal tyres — can I claim?’ • Andrew Dalton, ex-dispatch rider, is a solicitor-advocate and barrister with 20 years’ experience with bikers

‘Peckers up, café owners, we love you all!’

LETTERS

DON’T KNOW WHO TO CALL?

Punching well above its price • New £7k Triumph has a compelling mixture of performance, fun and build quality

BEYOND THE HYPE • The bits that actually make a difference

A bike with a serious identity crisis

Raising the technology bar

5 things you need to know about... • BMW’s 40th anniversary GS model for 2021

BIG QUESTIONS ANSWERED • Triumph’s record-breaking Rocket 3 is now bigger than ever. But does that make it better?

Shropshire Hills • When it comes to wonderful roads in quiet, unspoilt places, Shropshire is probably Britain’s best-kept biking secret

LOCAL KNOWLEDGE • RiDE readers share their inside tips on riding in Shropshire

Feed me, feed me, feed me…

Three great places to visit

THIS MONTH’S BIG RIDE ROUTE

BRITAIN’S BEST-VALUE USED BIKES • 15 sure-fire used-bike bargains from £2500 to £18,500

BEST USED CHOICE FOR UNDER £4K • ʻNothing else does so much, so well, for so little’

BEST USED CHOICE FOR £4K TO £8K • ‘All the all-round adventure bike most of us will ever need’

BEST USED CHOICE FOR OVER £8K • ‘Possibly the most complete and refined motorcycle ever built’

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW • Is now the right time to buy your next bike? Has the pandemic left a glut of unsold machines. Can you get the bike you want?

TOP 5 TIPS TO A BETTER DEAL

NEW BIKES 2021 THE NO-BULL GUIDE • We answer the burning questions about this year’s most interesting new bikes and highlight the best deals currently available on the showroom floor

MULTI V4 S YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED

2021’s BEST NEW-BIKE DEALS

Quiet, comfy, carbon… and well less than £300

‘Gives more confidence in all conditions’ • Editor Matt reckons a Hagon shock is a great upgrade for tired or budget OE shocks

MID-TERM TESTING • RiDE staffers on kit they’ve been using recently

How we tested them

Battery-powered heated gloves • One of the first...