Rather than witter on about the issues that I had during those last few days – they’re in a boxout elsewhere – I’ll just talk about the actual trip itself. For, yes, I got it sorted, so didn’t have to use one of the back-up bikes that friends had off

As well as tour guides Felix and Naomi, we were joined by BMW off-road instructor and GS Trophy winner, Jaime, and Jose in the support vehicle. We left the hotel on our BMW 1250GS hire bike intending to take Ruta 7 south to the ferry terminal at La A

I heard there was a ride on Sunday though, a poker run for the old bikes, open to anyone who wanted to ride. That’s me, I thought, and so it was. I ate the continental breakfast featured by my motel, sharing my pool-and-patio-view table with an older

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I’ve had a bit more time with the Scrambler Nightshift than expected. It was meant to go home to Ducati after a month, but a delay with the Monster I was expecting meant I had an extra few weeks to fall for it even more. It’s a properly charming thin

The Monster’s an icon. Introduced into the Ducati range in 1991, the trellis-framed naked won legions of fans who appreciated its rugged, stripped-back simplicity and punchy performance. It was a seriously important bike for the once flailing firm, a

£20 | www.iansimpson.co.uk Five-times British champion and triple TT winner Ian Simpson has just released his autobiography ‘Forever Playboy’. Simpson is one of Scotland’s greatest ever bike racers, and remains the last man to have won the British Su

Plenty has been written about pilots of all kinds of aircraft finding a greater sense of speed on a motorcycle. Operating at Mach-plenty above 80,000 feet, there’s nothing passing by to give any sense of such tremendous speed: that’s evident only on

Understanding your motorcycle’s battery is key to keeping it reliable. Lifting the lid on what makes it tick, and how to diagnose potential problems, will help you avoid the frustration of a flat battery. Also, it could save you a few quid, by extend

Q. I’ve always believed that if you rear-end someone you are 100 per cent to blame. However, I recently read a case online in which a woman was done in court for causing the death of a biker because she was travelling too slow, and he hit the rear of

I’ve been doing this job for a long time now – but there are still new things every day, thank the sweet baby jebus. And this is one of them – the 2024 Indian FTR1200 Sport. Now, I know the smart V-twin flat-track replica has been around for a while

I was lucky enough to have a fair degree of flexibility about when to go, so through September I’d avidly been watching the weather forecast for a dry week. However, I had a deadline as in mid-October the ferries move to a winter timetable that would

Tested by Bob Pickett | Baselayer (£55), Leggings (£55) | www.zerofit.co.uk/ Zerofit have built a huge reputation within the biking community with their Heatrub range, scientifically measured as being up to five times as warm as similar products, wit

Fancying a weekend away, with some new motorcycling experiences, I sorted myself with a ticket to the Adventure Bike Rider Festival. But attending an event like this, I needed to look the part. As a result, LS2 helped me out with one of their light a

It’s an attitude that appears to work. KTM products look young and feel exciting, and the smaller-capacity bikes aimed at new riders generally have a sporting authenticity less evident elsewhere. For 2024 the Duke and Super Duke range of sporting nak

Off-the-beaten-track, down a little lane on the edge of the Hafren Forest, the Jones family have been showing mud-loving bikers what enduro and adventure bikes are all about for over three decades. Ten-time British Enduro Champion and eight-time Inte

I must admit I didn’t think the Suzuki GSX-S1000GX would be much fun on a track day. It’s big, it’s heavy, and it’s tall, and I don’t like being so ‘far away’ from the front end on track days – I much prefer being hunched down over a bike. Probably a

I was crossing to France recently, via the Euro Tunnel, only to find a huge new building being erected. I queried what it was and the breath-taking answer was it is a £70 million pound build, the size of two football pitches, to accommodate the new b

£405 www.cardosystems.com My immersion into the world of tech was straight into the deep end by downloading an app for the Cardo Packtalk Pro – the device with which I was to expand my mind. Now, I’ve downloaded apps onto my smartphone a number of ti

As I get older, I know what I like, and I like (what little) I know. And so it is that I enter a sort of two-wheeled Groundhog Day, thinking that I’ve been here before but – unlike Bill Murray in the film – I’m happy with that, thank you very much. L

Yorkshire-born Chad has been professionally testing bikes for 20 years, attended more than 350 bike launches, and covered over a million road test miles. With race wins at Oliver’s Mount and two top 10 TT finishes, Chad is just as happy elbow-down on

Since this is a bike review, let’s talk about chocolate. A pinch of sea salt in a chocolate bar, cooking chicken with chocolate or adding a teaspoonful to spaghetti Bolognese shouldn’t work, but they do. Which brings me, naturally, to the Ducati Diav

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As you’ll see, there is a slightly different layout for this month’s issue, in that the usual Day Ride feature that normally covers three pages has been expanded a tad, to cover the Longest Day Challenge that I had planned for the Suzuki GSX600F proj

Does it really matter what a bike looks like? That’s a question that BMW seems happy to ask every now and again: from the wild K1 sport-tourer in the 1980s through to the robotic K1200 R super-naked in the early 2000s, and the king of the mingers, th

It’s weird to think the new middleweight F 900 GS produces more power than the legendary 1200 GS when it was launched back in 2007. Proof, if it were needed, that middleweight adventure bikes have come a long way. For 2024, the F 900 GS promises to d

Don’t get me wrong, I will always love sports bikes, and the plan is to continue racing until I can. I’m inspired by some of the guys who I race against at the Goodwood Revival who have another 20-25 years on top of me. But, throwing on a light jacke

At the first meeting of the newly constituted MV Agusta board on November 15, a capital increase of €30million was agreed - the sum KTM paid to acquire its minority shareholding in the company. As part of this alliance, KTM took charge of purchasing

While the new Scout, and especially the Bobber version, looks similar to the version that went before, it’s a new-from-the-ground-up machine, with a new, larger capacity engine and a totally new chassis to go with it. Quirkily, the chassis changes ha

When the call came in that the KTM was free to use, and would I be happy to do so, well you might as well have put me in a cake shop and said: “All yours, go for it!” I was smiling all the way to the key cupboard. I’ve ridden a few KTMs in the past,