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.

Nature or nurture? • How did we get so good at riding bikes?

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Motorcycle Sport & Leisure

The Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride 2022

Triumph powers Paasch to Daytona 200 victory

Ducati has the best year ever

Dax is back

Royal Enfield Scram

The Tiger who came to corner the market • Triumph The fight has for improved the top spot the in Tiger the 1200 large in adventure almost every category way. suddenly got a whole lot more interesting!

Specification TRIUMPH TIGER 1200

Meet the family

Closest rival • BMW 1250 GS/GS ADVENTURE FROM £14,905

OUR TOP TEN PRODUCTS THIS MONTH…

WIN Weise Apex Gloves

Star Letter

Letters

Speeding

new The face of city scooting • BMW’s all-electric CE 04 transforms bold concept into reality. But how does it ride?

BMW CE 04

How does it compare to the competition?

Slow losses • You can’t stop development, but with it you risk losing tradition

Who is Hershon?

Biking’s most famous • From movie stars to rock legends, there’s no shortage of famous people who ride bikes. But who are the most famous motorcyclists of all, and how have they become synonymous with two wheels? Who has done the most for motorcycling and lifted it into the mainstream public consciousness? MSL looks at the top 10 most famous riders and what they’ve done for the image of motorcycling everywhere

Legal Eagle • Legal mysteries of motorcycling solved right here

Who is Andrew?

Start your engine (just because you can) • Built like a gun? Maybe, and from £4279 the new Classic 350 may have hit the target

ROYAL ENFIELD CLASSIC 350

Haven’t I read this before?

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

Urban shocker • Electric motorcycles are here, and here for good, especially in the segment in which the power delivery and battery range are most suited – that of commuting through the daily grind of the urban battlefield

Specification

Get smarter • Dunlop’s new RoadSmart IV tyre sounds good on paper, but we wanted to see what they’re like in practice

Collection of finest travel moments • New book features a wealth of motorcycle travel writing

Border Country • There’s some fantastic riding to be done on the empty roads of the Scottish borders

Don’t get stopped • There’s a slight sense of déjà vu here…

Who is Millington?

Escape to Athens • Greece – azure seas, empty roads and challenging mountain tarmac

Getting There

THE ROUTE

Riding the Dream • Rob Mantel isn’t a huge Harley fan, but decided to do the coast-to-coast thing on one anyway

Looking after leather • Leather needs care. Here’s how to keep your kit in top condition, the easy way…

Rescue mission

Classic duel: Flicking the Vees • Aprilia’s RS250 and Honda’s NSR250 brought grand prix style aggression to the street in the mid-Nineties, combining feisty two-stroke V-twin engines with light, sweet-handling chassis and heaps of racetrack cred

What Are They Worth?

Specification APRILIA RS250

What To Look Out For

Specification

Test fleet: HONDA NT1100 • Is Honda’s NT1100 the bike that’s going to convince Ross to forget about adventure bikes…?

THIS MONTH

Test fleet: Suzuki GSX-S1000 GT • Stu finally...