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.

Psst, this is not really a special issue… • …MSL is just shamelessly jumping on the bandwagon of everything ‘Great British’…

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Motorcycle Sport & Leisure

More time needed: Plan to electrify new motorcycles by 2035 • Call for more time after the Government announced its timetable for electrifying two-wheeled transport

Dave Thorpe biography out now

Two new Suzuki scooters

Moto Morini’s new Seiemmezzo family

Golden Oldie • After a nearly 40-year hiatus, one of the most important names in British motorcycling is back – and to kickstart its revival, it’s created a new version of its most celebrated model: the Gold Star. To put it through its paces properly, we took the chance to ride it at the top-secret Millbrook Proving Ground across its extensive cross-section of test tracks. Here’s how we got on.

OUR TOP TEN PRODUCTS THIS MONTH…

Thirteen countries in one day!

WIN WIN WIN WIN! • WIN a Richa Charleston jacket AND Carter riding jeans

TOURING LIDS • Racking up the miles and looking for a new helmet? We’ve put together some top tips to help…

Legal Eagle • Our in-house lawyer answers questions big and small…

Scrambling for new markets • Royal Enfield says that the Sram 411 is an ‘Adventure Crossover.’ We went to find out what that actually means…

Finishing touches • Small improvements make a big difference

Supercross lands in the UK • On October 8, in Cardiff’s Principality Stadium, Wales will host the first-ever World Supercross Grand Prix, and you should go

Letters

In charge of the city • The best-looking electric bike yet takes the city by storm

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

Highland games • Kawasaki H2 SX SE Tourer, Suzuki GSX-S1000GT, Honda NT1100 (DCT) At MSL we love our sport as much as we love our leisure, and what better way to celebrate both than take three of the most exciting new sports tourers up to Scotland for a big-miles test.

The Norton comeback • Norton’s new owners have spent two years re-engineering the Norton V4SV. This, at last, is the result. The new V4SV by new Norton. We rode it at the Mallory Park racetrack, not too far, in fact, from the new company’s new headquarters in the heart of the British Midlands

The Freedom Machine • Belgian biker Trui Hanoulle is setting out to show how motorcycles liberate women

North to the Past • 320-mile round trip to see some old bikes and cars? Worth it in this case – the Grampian Transport Museum

The year of firsts • Richard has seen a lot while touring, but this was a first…

The Great Malle • 1500 miles through Britain, The Lizard to John o’ Groats, majoring on twisties

The Gerik Loop • Big loop through central Malaysia – mountain motorways, valley racing and the best nasi goreng this side of Kuala Lumpur

Female police motorcyclists • In 2020, North Yorkshire Police formed an off-road motorcycle team to combat crime in those out-of-the way locations and deter cross-border criminality. They recruited the specialist skills of a three-times dirt bike champion, PC Ellie Cooke, who is thought to be the only female off-road police motorcyclist. However, female police officers riding motorcycles is not such a new idea…

The Mick Extance experience • We trekked into deepest, darkest Wales and paid...