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.

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Royal Enfield’s mighty Meteor 350 • Is this the new best-seller from India? The Meteor 350 boasts new engine and chassis, and funky equipment like the turn-by-turn navigation device

Specification

Support Air Ambulance UK with the Moto Guzzi Club

Honda Gold Wing improved

Moto Guzzi’s new V7 Stone and V7 Special

Bullit Motorcycles unveil scrambler-style Hero 250

Can we ride motorcycles in England during lockdown? • Another lockdown... At least this time the weather is not tempting us out on two wheels…

BRITISH INASION • With the new Trident 660, Triumph has drawn the battle lines for 2021 in the entry-level naked category – and it will be a fight to behold!

Specification TRIUMPH TRIDENT 660

STEVE SARGENT, TRIUMPH CHIEF PRODUCT OFFICER

Rivals

Bikes sales survive the pandemic

Aprilia Tuono 660 revealed

Honda updates Vision 110

Radical new body kit for Yamaha XSR900

Legal Eagle • Our legal expert answers your questions from lockdown riding to trail legalities

Who is Andrew?

OUR TOP TEN PRODUCTS THIS MONTH…

From city to desert • How urban riding kit transformed into adventure wear

American Make Bikes Great Again! • The orange live wire breaking with tradition has been the talk of the past year stateside. In motorcycling, Harley’s first electric bike got people talking, too.

HARLEY-DAVIDSON LIVEWIRE

THIS WILL BLOW YOUR MIND! • The days when you could take a quick glance at a riding jacket and assess its protectiveness based on looks alone are gone. Welcome to the brave new world of rider protection

both worlds • Here’s a slick tyre specifically designed to work for track days, but does it work?

Am I too old for sports bikes? • I’m 50, I’m overweight and I’m not as flexible as I once was. So are my sports bike riding days a thing of the past? Could I simply not cope with one any more? I borrowed a Honda Fireblade SP to find out

HONDA FIREBLADE CBR1000RR SP

Maynard Hershon • You can’t always be on top of your game, but you can opt out

Who is Hershon?

WIN Weise Apex Gloves

To plug or not to plug?

Letters

12 Go Mad

NAKED TRUTH • Our ultimate super naked group test: five bikes, over £90,000 worth of machinery and nearly 1000bhp…

KAWASAKI ZH2 • The naked Japanese puts super into super charging

KAWASAKI ZH2

KTM SUPER DUKE 1290 R • It looks like the previous model, but it’s all new

KTM 1290 SUPER DUKE R

MV AGUSTA BRUTALE 1000RR • Spend £27k on a bike, and you get one exciting ride

MV BRUTALE 1000RR

APRILIA TUONO V4 1100 FACTORY • The Italian stallion provided the biggest surprise of the test

APRILIA TUONO V4 1100 FACTORY

DUCATI STREETFIGHTER V4S • Clearly the best on track, but what about on road?

DUCATI STREETFIGHTER V4S

AUTODROMO PERGUSA

VERDICT

LARGE AND IN CHARGE • While many folk will automatically assume that Indian’s big, beefy and brawny Springfield was built with covering long distances over die-straight American highway as its raison d’etre, the truth is that it’s a surprisingly capable and enjoyable machine in the UK too

INDIAN SPRINGFIELD DARK HORSE

Overland rallies 2021: what’s on, what’s not • Some overland rallies are carrying on for 2021, though others have...