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Team Bike • This magazine is made by the most talented team of bike journalists, writers and photographers in the universe. Here's what they've been doing this month.

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Hornet 1000 gets saucy • Honda reveals new Hornet-based concept harking back to the CB900F Bol d'Or. It could be on sale later this year

What was the CB900F Bol d'Or?

25 years of jet madness • MTT launch 25th anniversary edition of their jet-powered, 420bhp nutcase

The slash is back! • New R12G/S harks back to the classic R80G/S, but with all the modern trimmings

Why the slash?

Bagger with swagger • We're talking 153bhp of swagger. Say hello to the Harley-Davidson CVO Road Glide RR

‘I rode it more than Foggy!’ • Carl Fogarty's TT-winning Honda RC30 is up for sale. We accidentally find the bloke who ran it in…

GET IN GEAR • The latest word in swanky riding gear, desirable bolt-ons and must-have goodies for your pride and joy

1985 Yamaha FZ750 • Hang on – five valves per cylinder? Four decades after its release, Roland Brown remembers the brilliance of Yam's breakthrough sportsbike

‘Home crowd left once Harleys broke down’

‘Adventure is what it's about’

HERE COMES SUMMER! • Warm tarmac, bustling hedgerows, leathers and midge-smothered visors. Here are the events, skills, bikes and places for a truly spectacular sunny season

‘I've got the throttle open, the front brake on, and I'm on full lock…’ • …and he's cut the lockstops off. Bike asks five masters of extreme skills to explain how to be a summer riding god

52 TOP TIPS FOR A PERFECT SUMMER • From technique to tyres, mindset to manoeuvres and petrol stoves to padded pants – our expert panel deliver the secrets to a long and happy motorcycling summer – and biking life beyond

Your experts • Twenty titans of two-wheeled tips

Runto the sun • For 10 glorious summers, Team Bike raced all round Europe with 3000 hedonistic readers in tow. It was as brilliant as it sounds…

Team Bike's best ‘80s/'90s results • Don't forget: these are for a bunch of amateurs against full factory teams

120 years in the making • Triumph's Tiger Sport 800 could be their greatest bike ever. To find out, we challenge the ‘world record’ set in 1905 by the first all-Triumph machine on this summer's must-ride bike

The last working 1905 Triumph

Exhilarating, inspiring, unmissable • There's a summer's worth of remarkable events waiting to make your 2025 truly unforgettable. We ask a bevy of experts and champions to reveal the very best

Popularity contest • One of Britain's biggest sellers, one of the planet's biggest sellers, and a newcomer from the world's biggest-selling manufacturer. It seems everyone loves retro 400s – but which is right for you?

‘To be a champion you have to be a cannibal’ • Aldo Drudi is famous for painting lids for Valentino Rossi, Marc Marquez and Marco Simoncelli. Few people get closer to these people, so he knows how racers tick

Nod, smile and wave… • Wheels and Waves in Biarritz and a tour of the Pyrenees? Sounds like the perfect summer road trip – and made all the better by a dog in the...