Motorcycle Monthly
Braking tech
‘What do you need brakes for? They only slow you down.’ I’ve been using this clearly brilliant dad joke in brake features for decades now and am unwilling to give it up just yet (sorry, not sorry). The joke is a paradox, of course: better brakes will...
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Welcome to the issue…
Where’s the year gone? By the time you read this we’ll be on the run-up to Christmas and the start of a fresh year that’s looking loaded with new metal. A lot of this issue is dedicated to next year’s revealed bikes, of which there are too many to...
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Welcome to the issue…
What a year it’s been, but maybe the best is yet to come? It seems almost daily that a new bike is being revealed, as manufacturers throw their hat in the ring for a slice of 2026’s sales. We’ve got a whole load of models brimming this issue’s news...
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Ridden and Rated
For a manufacturer which has utterly dominated the sales charts and constantly set and reset the bar in terms of performance and tech for sports bikes, the S1000R has never really set the charts alive or captured the hearts and minds of the...
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Ridden and rated
While the 660 triple has been around for a few years, until now I’d not had chance to try it out, wondering how it’d compare to the original 675cc Street Triple I absolutely adored when I borrowed one to take over to the TT nigh on a decade-and-a- half...
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Ridden and rated
offering a smooth downshift even when I thought I might have been a little too enthusiastic stamping down on the gear lever a little prematurely at times. I have to admit the suspension is somewhere else I anticipated I might find some kind of...
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Sophisticated Speed
A hooligan at heart, the latest Speed Triple 1200 RS comes brimmed with brains to help you make the most of its brawn... It’s three decades since Triumph rewrote the rulebook and created the performance naked sector with their T309 Speed Triple. Since...
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Welcome to the issue…
How are we halfway through the year already? Time really does fly, but as starts to the year go, I’d say we’ve been pretty jammy with the weather. I’m just back from a 1000-mile round trip to Scotland on a Tiger 660 and the weather throughout was...
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Grin on a twin
While some people might question how less can be more, it’s an ethos that Ducati’s played out wholesale with the brand’s new Panigale V2. The headlinegrabbing news with the model is the drop in performance, not a mere one or two ponies, but a whopping...
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Access all areas
It’s important to know your history. The popularity of TV programmes centred around celebs finding their ancestors testifies to this. As does the success of firms who’ll analyse the DNA in cells scraped from inside your mouth, then tell you that you’re...
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A date in the desert: Part 1
Day 1 – Agadir to Tafraoute (360km) It turns out that being miles from anywhere, deep into a desert and slowly roasting like a prune isn’t the most fun way to pass the day. To put it frankly, in that moment, feeling sick as a dog and scared as a...
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Welcome to the issue…
Do you ride all year? It’s a question I seem to get asked less often these days, which isn’t a bad thing. In truth, I don’t, or at least not in the typical sense, but I’ve served my time doing so daily for at least a decade. For several years I did a...
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Take it to the NMAX!
It’s time to be honest with you… I don’t know that much about scooters, but I can read a press release just as well as anyone. The thing is, when going over the facts and figures surrounding Yamaha’s deliverance of its third generation NMAX, 10 years...
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Welcome to the issue…
It’s been an exciting few weeks putting this issue together and learning about all the new bikes that are headed our way. Needless to say, there’s plenty on the cards for 2025, covering everything from tourers to nakeds, sports bikes to adventure...
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Welcome to the issue…
Hi, I’m new. Well, kind of. Around 14 years ago I got drafted in to help on this title, when it was known as MotorCycle Monthly, so it feels both strange yet exciting to be back on this paper, stepping in where Ross left off. I really like what he’s...
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READY TO RACE
Why KTM’s 990 Duke might just be the most fun you can have on two wheels
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A nod from the Editor
It doesn’t seem all that long ago that I was a young, carefree, and floppy-fringed learner, blasting about on my Yamaha XT 125. Now look at me. The greys are peeking through, the wrinkles are coming, and I’ve spent the last few years getting paid to...
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