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.

Looking forward

Motorcycle Sport & Leisure

News • Last issue, we promised that we’d be illustrating the new models that were announced at the massive EICMA bash in Milan, so here we go starting with the expansive array of fresh machinery from Honda

CB650 and CBR650R

CBR1000 RR Fireblade

CB1000 Hornet

CBR600RR

Suzuki GSX-S1000 GX

Suzuki GSX-8R

Langen LightSpeed

MV Agusta LXP Orioli

2024 KTM Duke 990

Going up in the world • A completely new Enfield Himalayan ready to take on the world!

Products

GlobeBusters 20th Anniversary Trans-Americas Ride Blessed are the Bikes • GlobeBusters have arrived in Santiago, the capital city of Chile, four months after setting out from Alaska on their 20th anniversary Trans-Americas expedition. During a brief pause to service bikes, ready for the final leg through Patagonia, we asked Tour Manager Rhys Lawrey to tell us about their adventures since leaving Trujillo in northwest Peru

To a Good Home • Saying goodbye is rarely easy…

Road Explorer • Lightened, lengthened and lowered, Hamamatsu’s latest parallel twin get’s Mossy’s approval

Letters

Welcome to Northumbria

The future’s bright, the future’s green? • Al’s been on *a lot* of motorbike launches over the years. And they’ve all, to a greater or lesser extent, claimed to move motorcycling on in terms of technology, innovation, performance, practicality, style. Sometimes all at once.

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

Legal Eagle • Motorcycling legal issues sorted, by our man in the know

MOTO MORINI Moving on Up • After spending some time out of the limelight, 2024 could be the year for the Italian brand to shine

Manx Trails and five ways to ride them • The Tarmac of the Isle of Man isn’t the only appeal for two-wheelers, there is so much more…

North East 250 • Having seen the success of the North Coast 500, local landowners and businesses launched the North East 250 in 2017, creating a tourist driving route through Aberdeenshire, Moray and the Cairngorms National Park

Returning to Vietnam • Everything changes. Everything stays the same

Never too old, never too young • A miserable wet day in January in North Wales, and the latest MSL drops on to the doormat. From within its pages out drops the MSL Tours 2023 Tour Schedule, bringing back memories of past trips in its earlier incarnation. Not for me, stick with the memories, remember your age, toss the brochure aside…

Balkans and Albania • Rather than fly and hire, it’s surely better just to ride all the way and take in some stunning roads and vistas en route…

Tried & Tested • Clothes we wear ◆ Kit we like ◆ Parts we put on our bikes

Test fleet: Suzuki V-Strom 800DE • TFT dash reminder tells me the V-Strom needs servicing. But Suzuki do a lot more than change the 800’s oil

Test fleet: Yamaha Ténéré World Raid • A pair of wintry 250-mile days started Dave’s relationship with the World Raid, which could have gone one of two ways…

Test fleet: Kawasaki Versys 650 GT • The thrills, chills (and hopefully no spills) of the season are back in the Bertie Simmonds household, it seems

Test fleet: BMW R1250 R SE • The weather outside is...