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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.

Welcome…

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

‘Exmoor is lovely light traffic, no big towns and good views’ • RiDE reader Phil Weston takes us over the moor and along the coast on his West-Country favourite

LOCAL KNOWLEDGE

RIDE INVESTIGATES HOW WILL THE UK TACKLE ITS GROWING POTHOLE PROBLEM? • With outstanding local-road repair costs climbing past £14bn, what can be done for Britain's battered tarmac?

Langen pushing hard on four-stroke

KTM brings back the SMT

LETTERS

RiDE

ASK THE LAWYER • with Andrew Dalton, White Dalton Motorcycle Solicitors

ASK THE RIDING COACH • With Rapid Training Coach Ryan Decarteret

Evolution theory • New tech adds to Tracer 9 GT's already impressive offering

BEYOND THE HYPE • The bits that actually make a difference

FIRST RIDE SUZUKI GSX-8S Talking the torque • Suzuki's new GSX-8S could well be the pokiest budget middleweight yet

BEYOND THE HYPE • The bits that actually make a difference

FIRST RIDE HONDA CL500 Scrambler-lite for A2 riders

FIRST RIDE INDIAN SPORT CHIEF Big twin that's big fun

FIRST RIDE DUCATI SCRAMBLER 800 ICON 5 things you need to know about… • …Ducati's revised and tech-enhanced retro charmer

BIG QUESTIONS ANSWERED Q Is the new Street Triple 765 R the middleweight we should all buy?

Q What does an MT-09 owner make of it? • Is it good enough to make a switch from the Japanese icon?

THE MODERN ART OF SPORTS TOURING • The world of spor ts tourers has splintered over the years. Here are three brilliant – but very different – machines that are great at going far and fast

GO FAR, GO FAST • Five other ace new sports tourers

THE ROUTE

3 OTHER TOP PLACES TO TAKE YOUR SPORTS TOURER

10 ACE USED SPORTS TOURERS… • ..for £5k or under. Introducing RiDE's best do-it-all machines

HOW TO BAG A GREAT DEAL

‘MOTORCYCLING IS AN US THING’ • RiDE finds out how biking par tners who ride together, stay together

MARK AND JO ‘I don't know what we'd do without bikes’ • Jo and Mark live, sleep and breathe bikes: “they take up 75% of our time,” says Jo

PAUL AND JANETTE ‘I specifically went shopping for a biker’ • Janette set out to meet a motorcycling man and Paul was the willing victim

MIKE AND CARRIE ‘It's enhanced us, as a couple’ • Riding bikes has made Mike and Carrie closer and happier

WIN A DAY OF EXPERT COACHING!

LEARNING YOUR LINES • Choosing – and maintaining – the best line through a corner opens up a world of swiftness, safety and biking fun

PUTTING IT INTO PRACTICE

LATEST KIT RATED Versatility and flexibility done right

2500-MILE TEST ‘Great in the dry but…’ • Not a statement you usually expect with a helmet but it's not so great in the wet

TESTING IN PROGRESS

THE RiDE PRODUCT TEST SPORTS-TOURING TYRES • These tyres are the great all-rounders of the rubber world. But which gives the...