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RiDE November 2017
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In the latest issue of RiDE we ride coast to coast on 2017’s ultimate distance machines, the Kawasaki ZZR1400, BMW R1200RT SE and Ducati Multistrada Enduro. Which bike do you choose?
Also inside we show you how to get a bargain Bandit in our 1250 buying guide, how to choose an adventure suit with the smart buys from £270 to £1500 and we road test the classy retro Honda CB1100EX.
PLUS shock results in RiDE’s fuel economy challenge, touring in Luxembourg & Iceland and much more!
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Practical Sportsbikes October 2017
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Inside the latest issue of Practical Sportsbikes, the Suzuki GS750 gets a modern makeover with GSX-R hardware in our reader resto; your favourite crashes and calamities remembered and the Bimota SB4 goes head-to-head with the Suzuki GSX1100, but which is best?
PLUS Yamaha FZR400 fact file, Kawasaki Z1000’s 40th birthday bash, a Suzuki X7 special so outrageous you’ll either love or hate it and much more!
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Performance Bikes – October 2017
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In This Issue:
Dream Desmos – First UK Road Test
Final Edition Ducati 1299
Panigale R meets the best classic Ducati V-twin superbike
22 pages of new and used projects
Project ’08 Blade + GSX-R1000R ’05 YZF-R1, MV Brutale 750
PLUS! Free Inside – The Red Bulletin
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Classic Bike – September 2017
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In This Issue:
Cafe Hero – Rickman Suzuki Saga – One Man’s Quest from Crusty to Concours.
Classic World:
Montlhery cafe racers,
Panther concepts,
Gold Star auction,
Deranged drag bikes,
White Helments,
Classic Bike Live
Triumph Daytona’s 50th
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Bike – October 2017
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In This Issue:
2017 Bike of the Year! – 50 Bikes rated & reviewed – ONLY ONE WINNER
Triumph Bobber – How can a cruiser be this good?
BMW Racer – Huge 3200 mile test.
Ducati Desert Sled – Scrambler conquers Pyrenees
Suzuki GSX R1000R – Drag racing on a digital superbike
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RiDE – October 2017
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Welcome…
We do get a bit of stick periodically at RiDE for talking about the BMW R1200GS. Britain’s favourite larger-capacity motorbike is hugely popular and really can do it all (see page 104)…but it’s far from being the only great adventure bike.
In this issue we’re also looking at some of the alternatives – the Yamaha Super Tenere, Suzuki V-Strom 1000 and the great-value used dual-support machines you can get if you’re looking for a big bike that is, as so many people often point out, “not another GS”.
Mind you, even BMW make an alternative to the GS: the new R nineT Urban G/S. We’ve taken it on an adventurous ride with the equally left-field Ducati Scrambler Desert Sled and the popular Triumph Street Scrambler. Can these retro-styled alternative adventure bikes deliver practicality and fun? Find out on page 14.
Simon Weir
Editor
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Built – Issue 7
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In issue seven of Built magazine, Dutch watch- makers TW Steel invite four experiences custom motorcycle builders to build a quartet of bikes based on
standard Yamahas. We see the stunning results.
We meet the Swedish builders that have created an Indian Scout tracker capable of running in the world’s largest endure and Ross Jackson who took on the
challenge of turning a stock bike into a pukka flat-tracker, winning his maiden race.
Dick Smith, aka The Baron, one of the few remaining old skool bike builders in the UK talks Bonneville blasters, glitter flake bobbers and building bikes for Ewan and Charley.
Events this month include a visit to Wheels and Waves in Biaritzz, the Malle Mile in London and the Café Racer Festival in Monthery, France – fast turning into Europe’s most exciting bike event.
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MCN: Barry Sheene
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Welcome
Steve Parrish: “I still think about Barry now. Every day. I hope you all enjoy this special tribute – I know I will!”
132 pages of Barry Sheene Goodness
Including…
Sheen Genius Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3
Selling Sheene – Barry was a money machine away from the track
Eyewitness – 1976 – Closest friends and rivals remember an epic year
Taming the beast – How Sheene turned evil RG500 into a winner
1977: In his own words
The coming of Kenny
All this plus loads of exclusive content in this issue!
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Performance Bikes – September 2017
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In Septembers issue of Performance Bikes…
‘My Trackday Bike Is An NSR500!’ – The reality of owning and riding HRC dream bikes
NEW – KTM Super Duke 990 Mods Guide
Guy Martin’s Race Katana – Plus the best bikes from the Spa Classic
TESTED – Ulitmate Track Tyres – Chris Walker and PB rate the best trackday slicks
JAPAN’S BEST – Yamaha YZF-R1M VS Honda Fireblade SP – Michael Rutter’s Verdict
Also included – FREE MCN INSIDE
All this plus more in Septembers issue…
DON’T MISS OUT AND GET YOUR COPY TODAY!
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Classic Bike – August 2017
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This is The Green Issue, but not some kind of environmentally-motivated political message those three words now suggest. Far from it. It’s a celebration of a time when green was mean, a time of Kawasaki’s outrageous two-strokes triples and ground-breaking four-strokes. A time when big horsepower was everything and chassis technology was struggling to catch up.
In the early 1970s riders were going Kawasaki crazy on the road with the wild 500cc and 750cc two-strokes. On track it was fast and furious too, with people like Mick Grant at the TT and short circuit heroes like Yvon DuHamel and Art Baumann struggling to tame the ‘green meanies’.
Then came the four-strokes. Godier Genoud won endurance races with the Z1/Z1000 power units and Eddie Lawson earned legendary status racing a Z1000 in American superbike that saw Kawasaki develop a road bike as a tribute to him.
It was an incredible period of gas-guzzling, tyre-smoking madness – a green era to unsettle all of today’s green campaigners.
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Bike – September 2017
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This issue…
BMW’s marketing department would disagree, but Yamaha practically invented the adventure bike. Their XT500 (First tested in Bike in March 1977) was the first time that a production trail bike was a convincing road bike. Modified XTs won the first two Paris Dakar rallies.
The big-tanked XT600 Tenere (first tested in Bike in March 1984) tapped into Dakar rally credibility and become the bike of choice for round the world riders in the eighties and nineties.
The XTZ750 Super Tenere (first tested in Bike in May ’89) led the big trailie (they weren’t called adventure bikes then) boom that swept Europe in the nineties, and Super Ten-derived bikes won the Dakar seven times.
Now the Yamaha revival that began with the introduction of the MT-09 (first tested in Bike in November 2013) is about to produce a bike that lives up to their adventure bike heritage.
We got the exclusive ride on the concept version of the new 700cc adventure bike. Off-road editor Jon Pearson reckons it’s very good and as soon as there’s a production model we’ll be riding that, hopefully across the Sahara (I’m volunteering). Bike has always delivered the best tests and insight and we’ll continue to do so.
And we’ve got the best readers, as evidence by the constant quality and insight of the mail that we receive (letters on page 24). If you’ve got a story, an insight or an opinion then write. Or come and see us at the Bike trackday on the 4th August (details page 119).
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Practical Sportsbikes August 2017
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This month…
For every project or restoration that makes it off the work bench, then out of the MoT station to start its new life, there are many more that get left at the back of the shed, and forgotten about.
We’ve all been there. Even PS’s prolific project bike builder Alan Seeley. Our Technical Ed’s once brimming enthusiasm for his Ducati ST4-powered 888 replica began to dry up for his homemade Italian twin before he could realise its potential.
Fellow PS contributor Rupert Paul couldn’t bear to see Alan’s hard work go to waste so he’s unearthed the Duke from the back of the shed, dusted it down, and has sworn to finish what Al started. See if he’s bitten off more than he, and indeed Alan, can chew from page 89.
Two men who bit chunks out their competition before coming back for more legendary tuner Pops Yoshimura and his two-time AMA title winning rider Wes Cooley. Pops and Wes showed their sheer class in the late ’70s and early ’80s American rave scene by beating factory backed Kawasaki and Honda teams, and in the process making Suzuki and its GS1000 superbike into racing Legends. Wes tells PS his story from page 48. And what a story it is.

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