Feature Stories

BeMoto follower Simon Hunt tells us about his obsession with the Honda SP-2 special with Dream Machine Colin Edwards Laguna Seca paint scheme, Scorpion race exhausts, Öhlins steering damper and other mods...

The mercury's finally crept out of the little bulb at the bottom of the themometer and the price of a trackday at Brands Hatch has risen above £80 for the first time in six months. Yes! It's almost the start of the riding season...

​Putting together a magazine group test can be a hilarious minefield, especially if it involves taking a load of bikes abroad…

The CX was dead, forgotten, history. Occasionally I’d see one propping up a mouldy tarpaulin in someone’s front garden, but then a hipster took a hacksaw to a CX500 seat unit, ripped out the battery and side panels, fitted wire spoke wheels, lagged the exhaust pipes, and the put the result on eBay with a £4000 price tag...

The psychology of riding a bike is, literally, a grey matter area. There is no rule book precisely because not having rules is one of the rules. And no-one trains riders to recognise the kind of person they are, the kind of brains they have, and the kind of behaviour they exhibit on a bike...

Congratulations! You're the millionth customer at the local multi-franchise mega-bike-dealer! And so you've picked up a very special prize! Yep, you're going on an actual bike press launch. Wooh! So what can you expect?