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Is the Triumph Speed Four the best 600 yet from the British firm? We think this is a better bike than a TT600 and more than deserving of success. Nice one Triumph!

We test the interesting looking (ahem...) Suzuki Inazuma 250F

If you can live with the styling (and price), Suzuki's Inazuma 250F makes a basic, fun all-rounder

New GSX-R1000 powered super naked from Suzuki

WE'LL  need to redefine a few bike classes after this year, or make some new ones.

YOU  could be forgiven for never having heard of the VJF250 RoadSport. Launched in 2012 to little fanfare, it never got much attention from the motorcycle press.

BMW  DOESN'T seem able to stop making great bikes at the moment. The firm needs to back off and give others a chance. In December it launched the S1000R, an incredibly good naked derivative of the S1000RR sports like. Now it’s giving us the R nineT, another naked but with retro styling.

Stripped-down, blacked-out, bagger-style GL1800 sheds 'Wing riders' halo image

A seriously competitive all-rounder. Well done Kawasaki

Neatly fills the gap between the 200 and 690 Dukes

It's just a big PCX125

A taste of the adventure flavour for A2-licenced riders, though mechanically identical to the naked CB500F

With two new shattering four-stroke dirtbikes available for 2002 in the shape of the Honda CRF450 and Yamaha YZ426, we sent our resident off-road specialist Steven Pheasant to various mudholes around the UK to figure out who's packing the big gun.

WHEN  it comes to scooters we're miles off the European way of thinking: scooters, especially maxi-scooters, rule. Over here in the UK, we just don't get it; scooters are for delivering pizza or getting 16-year olds to work on time.

GLORIOUS  Donington Park, the battlefield for some of racing’s great encounters. Rossi vs. Everyone in 2005, Senna vs. The Rain in 1993 and Kiyonari vs. Superpole in 2008. It’s a circuit that brings out the best in racing, both four wheels and two - and in the wet it's generated some amazing scenes.

BMW's full-dress F800ST replacement is a value-for-money tourer offering

The next generation's first sportsbike? A2-licence-compliant sporty model offers beginner thrills

The vanilla version of Honda's new 500cc family, built to sweep the A2-licence-holder market

Multistrada-fighter and continent-muncher with attitude

Think of it as a heavily revised and polished Triumph Tiger 1050