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Up front • PLANET FAST BIKES – NEW METAL, NEWS & REVIEWS

PICK YOUR POISON…

TRIUMPH STREET TRIPLE 765RX

TRIUMPH TRIDENT 800

ROUNDING OFF…

GENERATION NEXT: SUZUKI SV-7GX • With the loss of the legendary SV650, Suzuki hopes to fill the void with its taller, comfier and more rounded SV-7GX.

BLACK MAGIC: MICHELIN AT MOTOGP • With Michelin entering its final year as MotoGP’s official tyre supplier, it seemed prudent to pop along to a round and find out all there is to know about the French tyre giant’s racing operation.

KAWASAKI ZX-7R • Three decades on from its arrival, the ZX-7R has gone from once-upon-a-time superbike to full-blown cult classic.

BUYING A ZX-7R… PRICES: £1,000-£4,500

FLAWED FROM THE START…

M-SPEC MISSILE • In 2021, BMW Motorrad introduced their first M model. And it certainly hit the mark…

OTHER THINGS TO KNOW…

HOW TO BUILD A BSB BIKE • Building a British Superbike from a road bike sounds simple enough. It isn’t. From bodywork to engine builds, riding positions to parts having to be made, the Bathams AJN Ducati V4R build has been anything but straightforward. But through all the headaches, setbacks and late nights, they’ve ended up with a machine capable of fighting at the front and rivalling the factory Corse machines. This is their story…

PROJECT CORNER JAMES SHEPHEARD’S DUCATI 888 REPLICA • There’s something wonderfully perverse about taking a 2004 Ducati ST3 - a bike originally designed to swallow continents two-up with luggage - and turning it into something that looks like it should be far more interested in attacking apexes than Alpine passes. That’s theme behind James Shepheard’s latest build.

SIR ALAN LONGTERMER BMW S 1000 R

OLIVER LONGTERMER SUZUKI GSX-8T

Legal

POLICE REFORM ACT • Changes to the law means you could have your bike seized without any warning.

Christian Iddon

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