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.

Don’t ride angry • Soaring temperatures add fuel to deteriorating driving standards

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Motorcycle Sport & Leisure

Team Green gets mean • Early release for 2024 ZX-6R supersports machine and Eliminator 450 cruiser

Triumph tops 24-hour record

Norton V4 CR finally!

M for madness?

Grin and Tear it! • Yamaha’s three-cylinder sports tourer middleweight receives an influx of technology for 2023

OUR TOP PRODUCTS THIS MONTH…

Premium by name… • Taiwanese scooter firm Kymco is a pretty serious outfit. It started out as a primary parts supplier for Honda Japan, and is a cut above many other Far Eastern brands in terms of prestige and engineering

THREE BIKES ONE ENGINE • Honda’s largest parallel-twin engine manages to cater for an incredibly varied trio of platforms, with the Rebel, NT and Africa Twin being just about as diverse as they come. We ride the Japanese firm’s cruiser, adventure bike and commuter/tourer models to find out just how one powerplant can be suitable for all three.

Sorry, Dusty! • Sometimes, you just have to allow for the fact that Mother Nature is a force that cannot be reckoned with…

2023 Ducati Streetfighter gets Panigale superbike updates • Ducati hasn’t made vast changes to the new Streetfighter V4S for 2023, mainly because the planet’s most ferocious naked didn’t really require any!

Letters

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

Legal Eagle • MSL’s resident motorcycle lawyer answers questions big and small

Left field adventures • The adventure bike class has never been more popular. As a result, the range of bikes available is broader than ever. But within the large selection of machinery of very different shapes, sizes, specs and performance, sits something more left field

A Postcard from Anglesea Welsh Classic Motorcycle Festival

Peace Dividend • Imagine if TE Lawrence – aka Lawrence of Arabia and the owner of seven Brough Superior vintage-era superbikes in his abbreviated lifetime – had actually conceived, designed and personally built his own radical sporting V-twins, rather than leaving George Brough to do it for him. And had earned the funds and the resources to do so as a direct result of a high-level blunder by British Army command, which saw him and his squad cast adrift in the Arabian Desert, stamped as ‘Missing in Action’….

2023 Bike Shed Show

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Tail to tip, away from the course • There’s an easy assumption to make about the Isle of Man, in that it’s all about the TT… The stunning gem in the Irish Sea has much more.

Hired help • Having an adventure on a motorcycle doesn’t necessarily mean adventuring on your own motorcycle…

To the Alps and back • Mankind has always had a hankering to head for the hills. No doubt psychologists and historians would be able to give us a decent explanation why this is so. We don’t need one, except to know that travel is good

Suzuki Bandit 600, from road to track • Castle to castle – from the tight turns of Castle Combe to the wide expanse of Castle Donington.

Test fleet: KTM 790 Duke • Ross has been getting to know KTM’s Chinese-built naked. Here’s the lowdown

Test fleet: BMW R1250 R SE • Alan...