MONTH IN BIKES,

NEW STUFF,

OWNING A MOTOGP BIKE....!!!

JEREMY McWILLIAMS COLUMN Jezza starts the off-season in style, with a monster stunt show on the streets of Belfast.

SPEED TRIPLE S TESTED Rutter hammers Triumph’s base-level naked around Donington Park to find out just how close it is to the RS model.

MOTOGP MAESTRO PB discovers what makes world title-winning Kiwi crew chief Pete Benson tick.

PIKES PEAK KTM PB rides the class-winning 790 Duke, and asks why they don’t sell them to everyone.

JEREMY McWILLIAMS COLUMN Jezza on MotoStudent: inspiring the next generation of prototype motorcycle builders.

OUR BIKES 2008 Honda Fireblade, 2003 MV Agusta Brutale 750, 2014 KTM 1290 Super Duke R, 1992 Suzuki RGV250-N.

2019 KTM SUPER DUKE GT PB’s world exclusive first test of the sports tourer that’ll kick your head in.

TRIUMPH MOTO2 BIKE RIDDEN An afternoon on the 765 engine mule reveals much about the Daytona 765 road bike.

KAWASAKI Z900RS CAFF After a day thrashing it cross-country, we’re convinced it’s the only retro that matters.

RUTTER TEST Ducati Panigale V4 S vies with Yamaha YZF-R1M for top superbike honours.

TRIPLE TUG-OFF How does Triumph’s Speed Triple S compare to topspec RS? 

Ducati’s Panigale V4 S meets the Rutter Test. Spoiler: it demolishes Donington...

LONG-TERM TEST BIKES Triumph Speed Triple RS, KTM 1290 Super Duke R, Suzuki GSX-R1000R, BMW S1000RR, Yamaha MT-09.

NAKED SHOOTOUT Honda’s new CB1000R goes head to head with Yamaha’s benchmark MT-10

RUTTER TEST Michael takes to Donington’s hallowed tarmac to pit the Kawasaki ZX-10RR against the ZX-10R SE.

THREE-WHEELING Record-breaking Birchall brothers talk TT sidecar tech, and give PB a go in the chair.

RUTTER TT TEST: DUCATI V4 PANIGALE SPECIALE PB datalogs Bologna’s newest, hottest sportsbike around the closed TT course. Yes!

MICHAEL DUNLOP PB talks to his confidants to examine road racing’s most enigmatic character.

RUTTER TEST: APRILIA RSV4 RR VS YAMAHA YZF-R1 Which bog-standard litre bike laps Donington quickest? Rutter reveals all...

KTM 790 DUKE FIRST RIDE Is the new parallel twin all it’s cracked up to be? Let the skiddings commence...

TYRE TEST: ON THE ROAD PB puts eight sets of fast road rubber to the sternest test on our local roads. One very sweaty day later, we have a winner...

NAKED TRIPLES TEST MV Agusta’s Brutale 800RR meets stern three-cylinder competition from Yamaha MT-09 SP and Triumph Street Triple RS.

T765RS SPECIAL Triumph dealer helps Street Triple make the small (but obvious) step to full-blown sportsbike.

KAWASAKI ZX-10R SE Do semi-active boingy bits elevate Kawasaki’s litre bike to the top of the premier class? (Spoiler: no)

SHAKEY: A MARKED MAN British Superbike champ talks to PB about the rivals he fears the most. 

DUCATI V4 PB heads to the South of France to give Bologna’s latest masterpiece a quick one off the wrist.

RUTTER TEST PB heads to Valencia to test the megabucks BMW HP4 Race against a stock S1000RR and Rutter’s Macau GP bike.

YOUR BIKES Ducati 748/853, Pierobon 1098R, Suzuki GSX-R1100, Fireblade and Daytona 955i.

TRIUMPH SPEED TRIPLE RS How the Brit naked has upped it game, plus PB’s world first test against its closest rival, Yamaha’s MT-10SP.

MIKE WEBB INTERVIEW Learn how MotoGP’s Technical Director keeps Rossi and Co in check.

YOUR BIKES Super-light ’92 Blade, MV F3, TZ250, GSX-R1000 and Street Triple 675R.

OUR BIKES 2008 Honda Fireblade, 2017 KTM 1290 Super Duke R, 2003 MV Agusta Brutale 750, 1992 Suzuki RGV250N.

DUCATI PANIGALE V4 S It’s every bit as good as we all hoped it would be. And then some...

YAMAHA YZR500 Reader’s tribute to Niall Mackenzie’s GP bike gets our lipstick out.

YAMAHA MT-09SP Can sorted suspension turn a great bike into a really great bike? (Spoiler: it’s a yes).

OUR BIKES 2008 Honda Fireblade, 2016 BMW S1000RR, 2018 Yamaha YZF-R3, 2014 KTM Super Duke, 2005 Yamaha YZF-R1.

McWILLIAMS COLUMN Jezza on the art of crashing, and why Marc Marquez is the master of it.

THE ULTRA-NAKED German Yamaha dealer creates 192bhp, 185kg stripped-down MT-10RR. Gland hands at the ready...

RUTTER TEST ROUND-UP Michael Rutter chooses his heroes and villains from the last year of testing at Donington Park.

HOW TO HIGHSIDE Stunt man Rick English on crashing, training and why Tom Cruise is so rapid.

MONTH IN BIKES PB lifts the lid on 15 of 2018’s hottest new sportsbikes, nakeds and oddballs. Nine pages of utter horn start here.

YOUR BIKES This month’s readers’ rides include a Kawasaki ZZR1400, Yamaha XSR700, and a brace of stunning YZF-R1s.

THE RUTTER TEST Yamaha YZF-R6 and Ducati 959 Panigale do battle at Donington Park.

PADGETT’S HONDA RCV How Clive Padgett and Bruce Anstey transformed an RC213V-S from 160bhp road bike to Ulster GP winner.

JEREMY McWILLIAMS COLUMN Race legend Jezza joins PB as a regular columnist. This month, it’s mojito time...

20 YEARS OF THE YAMAHA R1 PB looks at the highlights of two decades of machines that reinvented the inline four sportsbike, rides them, and talks to the men who designed them. Lovely stuff.

THE BIG BOSS TALKS Honda race chief Neil Tuxworth tells us what 28 years at the top feels like.

Ducati V4 superbike here this month. Well, at least some of it: mystery unveiling at Misano WSB is start of new dawn.

2019 BMW S1000RR BMW finally bins its original superbike’s basics, and creates an all new weapon.

FRANCO SAYS RELAX Next year Moto2 ace Franco Morbidelli will be the first VR46 rider to make it to MotoGP. But the young Roman is more laidback than any title challenger has a right to be – is that something to do with his teacher? 

THE GRAND FINALE Ducati’s last V-twin superbike is a £35k dream bike, using the some of the best bits from various models. We introduced it to PB’s Ducati-loving, road-racing track tester Michael Rutter and his favourite-ever Bolognese superbike: the still-fabulous 888.

DUCATI PANIGALE 1299 R FINAL EDITION V-twin sportsbikes are out, say Ducati. But the last hardcore twin is a 206bhp blinder.

JOHN McGUINNESS The Ulster GP is mental – and that’s before you get on a bike!

HONDA CBR1000RR FIREBLADE SP VS YAMAHA YZF-R1M.

ISLE OF MAN TT RUTTER TEST SPECIAL Suzuki GSX-R1000R vs BMW S1000RR, flat-out on closed roads.

FREE PB TRACKDAY For your chance to join us at Rockingham.

MICHAEL DUNLOP DRAGS THE GSX-R TO THE TOP Hawk get the Suzuki on-song just in time to defeat the BMW hordes in the Senior.

JOHN McGUINNESS On her birthday, Becky gave me a bed bath and wiped my arse.

McGUINNESS ON McGUINNESS Not in that way... John’s long-suffering wife on what it’s like to live with a racer.

JOHANN ZARCO PB looks at how the Tech 3 MotoGP star has blown Rossi and Co out of the water.

HONDA SP-2 SPECIAL PB reader Jay Mounteney’s lightweight V-twin superbike is pure sexy time.

BUSA’S LAST BLAST Chris lets loose the motive power of one of the most mental motorcycles of the last two decades... Before it’s canned for good.

MV AGUSTA’S GREATEST EVER PB spends a day with the F4 312RR.

MOTO GUZZI V11 SPECIAL PB reader fashions titanium stunner.

PAUL BIRD INTERVIEW PB speaks to the most successful team boss in British Superbike history.

OUR BIKES MV Brutale 750 and Yamaha TRX850. Neither have fallen apart, yet...

In this issue:

LONG-TERM TEST BIKE: Whitey finds time to ride his MT-10
between stickering local road signs with militant vegan slogans

MAILBOX: Daytona 765 dreams, McGuinness vs Martin, plus other readers’ love letters

YAMAHA MT-10SP FIRST RIDE: Does the hotted up version of the super supernaked raise the bar high enough?

BORN SURVIVORS: Ryan Farquhar and Jamie Hamilton are lucky to be alive. PB speaks to the road racing survivors about the future and much more....

In this issue:

JOHN McGUINNESS COLUMN McG gets his head round Guy Martin becoming his new Honda team-mate

MOTOGP SEASON PREVIEW PB answers the questions that matter
about the 2017 championship

MONTH IN BIKES Norton’s naked V4, Ducati’s V4 superbike,
and all that matters from the last month and much more...

NEW BLADE - 19-PAGE FIRE BLADE LAUNCH SPECIAL.

2017 BLADE & SP TESTED - Our track verdict on all-new superbikes.

25 YEARS OF EVOLUTION - Amazing tech story of the Blade’s progress.

ORIGINAL BLADE THRASHED - 90s-spec naughtiness on the original sinner.

INSIDE NORTON - Under the skin of V4 superbike + Why they could win a TT.

In this issue: YOUR BIKES Updated 2000 YZF-R1 and modded RG500 lead two pages of reader-owned loveliness, BEHIND THE SCENES AT BMW PB gains exclusive access to the S1000RR production line and the Berlin factory’s race engine department, GOODBYE, DAYTONA 675 Our misty-eyed reminiscences on Triumph’s greatest ever motorcycle, TEST BIKES Kawasaki ZX-10R keeps Matt’s pecker up through winter, Chris’s R1 has a spy in the cab and much more...

MONTH IN BIKES- Norton V4 SS, base-level Fireblade, KTM 1290 Super Duke R, Ducati Monster 797,Multistrada 950 plus even more new bikes.

DUCATI MONSTER 1200S- PB heads to Monaco to ride the electronics-packed new supernaked.

JOHN McGUINNESS COLUMN- McG imparts the knowledge amassed from 19 years of racing the Macau GP.

CHRIS WALKER COLUMN- Stalker takes a look at the state of BSB, and how race series need to evolve to survive.

In this issue: JOHN McGUINNESS COLUMN McG on the wonderful world of satisfying your sponsorhip commitments (or not), TEST BIKES Daytona 955 owner tries our Triumph Speed Triple, plus latest on Ducati 959 Panigale, Kawasaki ZX-10R and BMW S1000XR, 360° GARAGE Inside home-based engineer Sean Wilson’s astonishingly well-appointed man-space, MAILBOX Reader’s double-ton club escapades, plus tyre pressure advice and Crutchlow love and much more...

In this issue: 2016 SPORTSBIKE SHOOTOUT PB heads to Anglesey to test the best of the best supernakeds, Japanese superbikes and European sportsbikes, FAST GROUP HIPSTERS Triumph Thruxton R and BMW R NineT Sport take on a Cadwell track evening, GUY’S ROCKET BIKE How do you make a 1000bhp bike fit for a World Land Speed Record? PB talks to the man who built it to find out, USED STUFF PB rates Arai RX-7V helmet, Wolf Nimbus two-piece, Lithium battery charger and more...

In this Issue: CHRIS WALKER COLUMN The Stalker opens the memory banks to relate his favourite trackday tales, HONDA SP-2 SPECIAL Stunning HRC V-twin bought blind from
Japan turns out to be semi-factory racer, JOHN McGUINNESS COLUMN McPint rocks up at this year’s Classic TT hoping his Paton 500 will go the distance, NEW STUFF Matris rear shock, Nitron fork internals, Harris rearsets, ASV levers, and more...

In this issue: PB TRACKDAY You came, you saw, you razzed around Rockingham on the hottest day of the year, MONTH IN BIKES Happy Anniverario to Ducati: their new limited-edition Panigale is pure horn, YAM MT-10 VS S1000R VS R1 We know the MT-10 is good but how good is it really? An R1 and S1000R will tell us, TAMBURINI T12 The last act of design legend Massimo Tamburini is a fitting testament to the man, DAVE HANCOCK What life inside Honda was really like. You will be amazed and much more...

In this issue: SUTER MMX500 PB scores the golden ticket - a test ride on the Suter V4 two-stroke TT bike, FUNNY FRONT-END R6 Engineering student Aymen built his own Hossack-style front end R6 on his driveway, FABULOUSLY USELESS Husqvarna 701 and Ducati Hypermotard SP prove their fabulous uselessness, USED STUFF Conti Race Attack tyres, Kabuto lid, Dainese Trickster leathers, vapour-blasting service, TEST BIKES Chris’s R1 loses power, 959 Pani is smoking, GSX-S hits the track, S1000XR strips off and much more...

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