Who writes this
Real riders,
named and accountable.
Every review, comparison and guide on LatestNewBike is written by a named member of this small editorial team — never an anonymous byline, never AI-generated copy passed off as a rider's opinion. Here's who's actually behind the verdicts.
Marcus Vale
Chief Road Tester
Marcus has spent two decades putting motorcycles through their paces on everything from city commutes to closed-circuit test days. He sets the editorial line on every road bike review published here and has a low tolerance for spec-sheet marketing that doesn't survive contact with a real road.
Elena Rossi
Reviews Editor
Elena edits and writes the head-to-head comparisons that anchor the magazine — the pieces built to settle an argument, not start one. She insists every claim in a comparison be something a rider can actually feel, not just read on a data sheet.
Diego Marroquín
Adventure Correspondent
Diego covers adventure and touring machines the way they are actually used: loaded with luggage, ridden two-up, and pushed off tarmac when the road runs out. He has ridden most of the current ADV field across genuinely rough terrain, not just gravel car parks.
Hana Kobayashi
Features Writer
Hana writes the long-form guides and opinion pieces — the buying advice, the ownership deep-dives, the pieces that argue a specific point of view. She's the one most likely to tell you the popular choice is the wrong one for your situation.
Priya Anand
Technology Editor
Priya tracks the technology reshaping how bikes are built and ridden — electric drivetrains, rider-assist systems, connected dashboards. She joined from an engineering background and reads a service manual before she rides the bike it belongs to.
Sam Whitlock
Racing Editor
Sam covers racing technology and the maintenance fundamentals that keep any bike — track or street — running properly. If it involves a torque wrench, a tyre compound, or a lap time, it usually runs through Sam first.
AP
Cycling Correspondent
AP covers the bicycle side of the garage — e-MTBs, gravel bikes and commuter builds — with the same unfiltered, ride-it-first standard applied to everything else here. If a suspension tune is over-damped or a claimed range is fantasy, AP says so.
How the team works
No pay-for-praise
Access to a bike is never conditional on the verdict we publish about it.
Ride it first
Every review reflects real time in the saddle, not a press kit rewritten in-house.
Correct in public
When we get a spec or a claim wrong, the correction goes on the same page, not a footnote nobody reads.