RiDE

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…

This month’s highlights • What’s got the RiDE team excited in the February issue

STAR PICTURE

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

‘Some of Lincolnshire’s finest back roads...’ • RiDE reader and charity rider Dan Mills shows off his favourite Lincs Loop

LOCAL KNOWLEDGE • Fancy exploring this bit of Lincs? Here are Dan’s top tips

ARE YOUNG BIKERS REALLY MORE DANGEROUS? • Do they deserve the stigma and sky-high insurance premiums?

New Tiger takes GS head on • Triumph overhauls Tiger 1200 and adds long-range models

ASK THE LAWYER • Andrew Dalton, ex-dispatch rider, is a solicitor-advocate and barrister with 20 years’ experience with bikers

‘Buy an airbag vest – now!’

LETTERS

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Triumph’s Tiger feat • Excellent middleweight road-biased tall-rounder carries on where the Trident 660 left off

A gentleman’s express • Is the classy, understated Speed Triple 1200 RR the bike that saves sportsbikes?

A2 supernaked lacks fun factor

Practical but not cheap enough

5 things you need to know about… • Ducati’s friendlier — but familiar — Streetfighter

Yamaha R7 vs Aprilia RS660 • There’s a new breed of supersports in town but can Yamaha’s £8k R7 really cut it against the £10k Aprilia RS660?

MONEY MATTERS

AMAZING PLACES TO RIDE IN 2022 • All of them brilliant, challenging and rewarding in their own way — and ever y one of them reachable and rideable by you next summer

‘Every challenge, every thrill, every vista’ • Everyone should have a biking holiday in Southern Spain and ride the A-397, says RiDE editor Matt

‘Forget the TT course; the A36 is The Island’s best road’ • Surfaced like Silverstone, no speed limits and virtually deserted!

‘Within hours you are in a transformed riding environment’ • Roads that flow like mighty German rivers — and just an afternoon’s ride from home

‘The only thing higher is the stars’ • For pure emotion, try getting lost in the hills of south-east Spain

‘Into Africa — in just three days’ • If you want to feel a long way from home in the shortest possible time, head for Morocco

‘The most beautiful ride of my life’ • For your first Euro adventure, the ACT dirt tracks head to the heart of Portugal

‘You may well have ridden straight past on your way to somewhere else’ • Varied roads, glorious cake and classic Normandy scenery — oh, and do-able in a weekend

‘The more you explore, the more you get from it’ • Bleak, open and stunning — Exmoor National Park is an amazing place to discover

‘One road is just 20 miles long but takes an hour to ride’ • Southern Italy isn’t easy to get to but is perhaps the best place in Europe to ride a bike...

THE BEST BIG RIDES • Over the last year, we’ve visited some amazing parts of the UK and Ireland as part of our Big Ride series. These are our favourites...

BRITAIN’S BEST DISTANCE BIKE • The perfect bike for a tour is comfy, calm,...