Motorcycle Sport & Leisure

Motorcycle Sport & Leisure is a monthly 116 page full colour magazine covering all aspects of modern leisure bike riding. New bike reviews, product news and events add to the unique mix of touring features and long term road tests.

Inspiration • Taking a broad-minded approach always improves matters

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Motorcycle Sport & Leisure

Triumph samples the single life

Harley-Davidson X440 roadster

Big CC Hayabusa

MV Agusta’s Yankee Doodle Dragster

25th Anniversary edition Suzuki Hayabusa

BMW builds its one millionth Boxer-powered GS

ZX-4RR price

Smiles per gallon? • An attractive, A2 licence-friendly, do-it-all bike for under six grand on the road? With Honda on the tank? What’s the catch?

China Gets SERIOUS • It was inevitable. Just like products of the Japanese industry in the 1960s, Chinese motorcycles are no longer the cheap-but-not-always cheerful products they used to be only two decades ago, mainly built down to a price, often with shockingly poor durability, and non-existent spares backup

OUR TOP PRODUCTS THIS MONTH…

High plains shifter • Forgetting that Indian’s first bikes were famous for their sporting achievements, prior to , the First World War, Mossy gets

Snapshots of Kansas • Getting lost isn’t always a bad thing. But it does always give a story to tell…

When three wheels are better than two • Innovative, daring and much-discussed – the Niken is the three-wheel production motorcycle that has received major updates this year

Letters

Legal Eagle • What might have been a harmless short ride, and the responsibilities of a pub car park

BACK IN THE DAY... • MSL columnist Maynard Hershon picks his favourite articles from the long history of this magazine

A tour of DIVERSITY • Honda Gold Wing, Moto Morini X-Cape, Suzuki Hayabusa, Yamaha MT-10We’ve often made the point that you can go touring on any type of motorcycle. But rarely have we gone out of our way to prove that different genres can mix. Until now

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Bike Social at British SuperBikes • You fancy a day at the races, but want a little extra? It’s time for you to get Social!

The Camera Ride • None of us really need a specific reason to ride our motorcycles, but we do sometimes find ourselves working an excuse into our lives that require us to cover miles on a bike

Donegal meanders • While many of us travel great distances to enjoy good riding roads, sometimes they’re right on our doorstep

Aural accompaniment • Noise is a contentious issue for motorcyclists, but it’s not all about the sound that the exhaust makes…

In search of Coffee in the Picos Mountains • Peter, Wellsy, Martin and Eileen tour together. They call their group ‘Guzzis Rule’ as Wellsy is a Guzzi fanatic and owns several, some of which actually run, but never for very long. Regardless, they decided to head for Spain

MOROCCO, SOLO • Riding on your own is invariably the best way to meet people, as John discovered on his trip through Europe, across the Mediterranean, and into Africa

Suzuki Bandit 600, from road to track • It’s a long way to Pembrey, from just about everywhere, although the eight-hour trip from Lincolnshire felt like it lasted about four weeks…

Yamaha’s Ténéré 700: Festival Time! • With the summer starting, it was time for Charlie and the T7 to have a short break away, at Ragley Hall

Test fleet: Suzuki V-Strom 800DE • Adjusting the V-Strom 800DE more to my...