Matt gets sweaty with new ride. In some woods. With other men…

Phenomenally fast, impossibly complicated and bloody pricey, have the latest high-end superbikes completely jumped the shark? Or can today’s litre bikes still relate to regular road riders?

Sure, 200bhp sportsbikes are all well and good – but what happens when you push things as far as they can go? Bike rides Toprak’s title-winning BMW M1000RR to find out

The BMW R1300RS ASA departs – but it hasn’t been a total love-in

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Brake hard, drop to second, wipe the wheel as you thrust forwards again and gather the second apex, run wide on exit and then gun this Riley Brooklands down the very short straight accompanied by what