Racing tech expert decodes the latest bikes

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

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?

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They may have been updated for 2026 but these used options are just as good...

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