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.

How’s your head? • Keep riding, so that you can keep riding

Motorcycle Sport & Leisure

2024 MV Agusta Enduro Veloce

Husqvarna Svartpilen 801

KTM launches Zeeho electric scooters into UK

Suzuki Live

2025 Indian Scout range released

Triumph Slippery Sam replica

News in brief

The Nostalgia game • Producing a retro motorcycle is a tricky business. Nostalgia must blend with innovativeness. The past must be celebrated while designing for the fast-changing needs of today’s markets. And whatever balance of old and new the manufacturer comes up with, for every person who applauds its looks and style, another half-dozen will fold their arms and say, no, that’s wrong

Products

None more black • These days it’s quite a major thing when one of the big four Japanese manufacturers releases a new bike into the cruiser/factory custom/call-it-what-you-will market, as cruisers don’t really appear to be a big part of their ethos anymore

What Would I Do Then? • A fascination with a particular sport doesn’t require actual involvement in that pastime. If the four billion soccer fans worldwide all played, we’d be tripping over footballs every time we left the house…

TAKE TO the TRAILS • Riding ‘off-road’ might look intimidating from the outside looking in – but it doesn’t have to be, particularly when you’re being shown the ropes by Phoenix Trails

Letters

BOLOGNA BRILLIANCE • There’s more choice than ever if you’re after an adventure bike that’ll dominate the roads. In an ever-crowded market, can the latest generation of Ducati’s pioneering Multistrada – with its Panigale-derived motor and raft of electronics – retain its reputation as one of the quickest, most surefooted and thrilling ways to cross continents?

Legal Eagle • MSL’s resident legal expert sheds some light on the law

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

In the bag • Harley’s latest baggers have gained power, lost weight and had a makeover. The result is a winner, says Geoff Hill

Worth Waiting For? • Moto Guzzi is Italy’s oldest bike manufacturer in continuous production since its birth in 1921, though Covid forced the postponement by a year of its 100th birthday celebrations held at its Mandello del Lario factory on the shores of Lake Como

Troubleshooting common 12V battery problems • Diagnosing and tracing faults with a motorcycle’s electrical charging system can be a daunting prospect, but with a basic understanding of the bike’s charging system you can usually get to the nub of what’s wrong. We asked the battery-saving experts at OptiMate to outline the main components of the charging system, and the symptoms of the most common problems encountered with them

Pass-ing the time of day • Three of Europe’s most well-known mountain passes, all covered in one day of mind-bending scenery and nerve-wrenching hairpins

Shooting for Gold • One of the minimum requirements for tour leaders with Motorrad Tours is RoSPA Gold, maybe Silver at a push, and first aid training. Both things that potential tour leaders need to have in the bag at the application process, not upgrade to later

Around Gran Canaria in three days • What better way to expand your riding CV than with some winter riding in the sunshine of the Canary Islands, and some dramatic mountainous roads

Premier peninsula perambulations • Riding locally is all well and good,...