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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

HOW ARE EURO BIKE FIRMS DOING? • As KTM wrestles to fix their financial crisis, we take a look at the health of the rest of Europe's major manufacturers

SO, WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD?

Most advanced Speed Triple yet • Uprated Triumph Speed Triple gets more power and better tech

MV Agusta and KTM confirm split

Bike test changes being considered

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

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ASK THE LAWYER • ‘My ‘solicitor’ put in a claim for less than a year's wages – this can't be right?’

ASK THE RIDING COACH • ‘How to I get back up to speed after not riding my bike during winter?’

Tiger's bigger, sportier teeth • Bigger-capacity spin-off of brilliant Tiger Sport 660 is even more capable and fun

BEYOND THE HYPE • The bits that actually make a difference

Ducati's reborn small-rounder • New engine and chassis for the lighter, faster, more agile Multistrada V2 S

BEYOND THE HYPE • The bits that actually make a difference

Hornet stings competitors

More to it than meets the eye

5 things you need to know about… • Built in Japan, pretty as you like, and less than £4000. Is Honda's GB350 too good to be true?

Q Have Honda now built the ultimate do-it-all? • …or is the updated NT1100 DCT ES still wide of the mark?

MAKE THIS SPRING COUNT • 34 pages of everything you need for a great start to the riding season

SPRING'S BEST 1000 MILES • Kick off the riding season with our pick of the ten best 100-mile weekend rides from across the UK

AT THE WOLDS END • Lincolnshire has a right to call itself the biking capital of Britain – and these are its best roads

HEART OF WALES • Every corner of this playful Powys loop is perfection

EXMOOR EXPRESS • A wonder of south-west hedonism, this route is joy

UIG OR BUST • The Highlands has some great roads, but this is among the best…

PENNINE PLAYGROUND • The Pennines are a stunning place to ride. You'll never want to leave…

CAIRNGORMS CALLING • Bleak, inspiring, challenging, inspirational. This ride has it all…

NORFOLK COASTING • East Anglia has some great riding, but the best is a lap along the coast from Wisbech, via Sunny Hunny to Great Yarmouth

PEAK PERFORMANCE • Britain's most popular biking spot has some of our best-known roads. But there's more to it than that

BORDER MARAUDER • Brilliant roads, moody mountains and inky reservoirs straddle the England/Scotland border

SOUTHERN COMFORT • From Biddenden in the Weald of Kent to Beachy Head cliffs in East Sussex, here's proof you can get a good, clear ride in the south-east

THE PERFECT COMEBACK • No-nonsense riding tips that will make getting back into biking a dream

FIVE ACE CHIPPIES TO RIDE TO THIS SPRING • …and the amazing roads on the way to them

WHY BIKING IS...