In this week's issue: Sportsbike shootout

In this week’s issue, we put Honda’s new Fireblade SP and the new Suzuki GSX-R1000R against five other top superbikes to see who is the undisputed 2017 superbike king. 

We ride all seven bikes in torrential rain on the roads, spend two days on track putting them through their paces and take them to the drag strip and dyno leaving no stone unturned. Can the two new bikes topple the established order?

Also inside MCN

New retro Yamahas ridden

We ride the new Yamaha SCR950 scrambler and limited edition XSR900 Abarth which is dripping in carbon. Only 100 Abarths will make it to the UK.

Missions 2017

This year’s must-do events, shows, trips and race meetings, as chosen by MCN staff. 

Is bigger always better?

KTM’s V-twin adventure bikes have jumped in capacity again for 2017, so we tested two of the new models against the outgoing 1190 Adventure to see if bigger really is better.

Unplug and play

The Energica Eva is the world’s first electric streetfighter, and we’ve got one to test. How has it held up after the first 100 miles of use? 

WSB and BSB news

We’ve got all the news from the first round of BSB – which saw Leon Haslam come away with two wins – and the first European round of WSB, where Jonathan Rea’s winning streak was ended by Ducati’s Chaz Davies.

 

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