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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.

‘Bike firms should be producing more fun, affordable machines with stripped-down tech’

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

ARE BIKERS REALLY MOVING TO ADVENTURE BIKES? • The cliché is that riders are transitioning to them and manufacturers are responding with evermore models. But is that the reality? RiDE’s statto-for-hire looks at the numbers

WHAT’S DRIVEN THE MARKET

LETTERS • Email ride@ride.co.uk Write to us RiDE, Media House, Lynchwood, Peterborough PE2 6EA

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ASK THE LAWYER • ‘Am I breaking the law riding across a pavement to park in my garden?’

ASK THE RIDING COACH • ‘How many fingers should I be using for the front brake lever?’

A sportsbike for the real world • Yamaha’s new R9 uses the MT-09’s motor to create a bike full of joy, flexibility and fun

BEYOND THE HYPE • The bits that actually make a difference

Speed Triple gets cushy • Electronic Öhlins upgrade solves Speed Triple’s rough-riding issue

BEYOND THE HYPE • The bits that actually make a difference

Adventure with added X appeal • KTM underpinnings make CFMoto’s new £8000 dual-sport machine a handy tool

BEYOND THE HYPE • The bits that actually make a difference

Refined lunacy

F900XR sharpens its pencil

5 things you need to know about… • …Ducati’s new lighter, less powerful supersport contender

Q Is Speed Twin now too sporty for its own good? • Triumph have added an RS to the Speed Twin range, but is the extra sporting potential a step too far for a retro roadster?

The Wye Valley Ride • Not all Big Rides are epic journeys across vast tracts of countryside - and a pocket-sized ride around the tree-lined slopes of the Wye Valley and Forest of Dean show why distance isn’t everything…

Feed me, feed me, feed me…

Three great places to visit

THIS MONTH’S BIG RIDE ROUTE

RIDDEN AND RATED 2025 10 OF THE BEST • The no-bull verdict on this year’s most important new bikes

HONDA CB1000 HORNET: THE 1000-MILE MEGA TEST • Honda’s new Hornet takes on every type of test imaginable to find out if it’s the deal

‘IT FEELS BUILT FOR B-ROAD BRITAIN’ • Editor Matt takes on some of the UK’s best B-road on our base-model Hornet. Is it fit for purpose?

‘500 MILES IN A DAY? LET ME SEE…’ • RiDE’s masterful mile muncher Simon Hargreaves takes the Hornet to the Pennines and back to check its distance credentials

‘SPEND AN EXTRA £1000 AND BUY AN SP? MAYBE…’ • Is it worth plumping for the posher SP model instead of the standard bike? Road tester Lewis Bishop puts the pair head to head

‘I LIKED IT SO MUCH, I BOUGHT ONE!’ • We gave the keys to two prospective Hornet-buying RiDE readers and pointed them in the direction of the B660. This is what they thought…

THE RiDE VERDICT ‘THE HORNET CAN DEFINITELY HACK IT’ • It’s not perfect, but for the cash the new CB1000 is unbelievably good

WHAT’S THE NEW R1300GS ADVENTURE LIKE ON A EURO TOUR? • We head 3000 miles to...