Small bike exotica

Popular Sportbike category poised to take over the Supertwin class on the roads

Yamaha’s game-changer that revolutionised the class by prioritising track ability

For two weeks every year a windswept, rain-lashed but beautiful and magical island in the Irish Sea becomes the centre of the bike racing universe. Bike celebrates this year’s action and the people, bikes and stories that make it unlike anything else on Earth

Gone are the days when you could pitch up on a factory RVF and blow rivals away. Now it’s a lot more complicated

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The TT started Honda’s obsession with motorsport, provoked the formation of HRC and generated some of the company’s finest motorcycles. Here’s how