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.

Approach with caution • A wise man knows when to ask questions, and when to keep his mouth shut. I’m not that man…

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World record attempt will be a Triumph • If you fancy being able to say you’re a world record breaker, then head to Hinkley – the home of Triumph Motorcycles – this summer

New little-big bike from Honda • Honda has brought back the CB300R to help cushion the leap from learner bikes to the big league

Indian Scout goes Rogue

What’s this? The Brabus 1300 R

SIX IS THE MAGIC NUMBER • The K1600 range of bikes enjoys a special place in the touring segment, exchanging punches with the likes of the Honda Gold Wing and the biggest American touring machinery. But what makes this six-cylinder beast such an important player in the elite-level touring game?

Specification

Honda Gold Wing

Indication of a safer future • Ever left your indicator on by mistake? Then you might like the sound of this…

OUR TOP TEN PRODUCTS THIS MONTH…

Legal Eagle • More interesting legal dilemmas have appeared on Andrew’s desk

Who is Andrew?

ALTERNATIVE ADVENTURE • Honda’s reworked its rugged X-ADV into a smaller and easier to manage package based around the engine from its Forza 350 and SH350. Could the ADV350 be about to make adventure motorcycling even more accessible?

HONDA ADV350

Mo-Kan Guzzi Rally, 2021, Part two • What’s better, the ride or the destination?

Who is Hershon?

ANGELS OR DEMONS? • How environmentally friendly are electric motorcycles?

Is it too late? • Steve Westlake, Climate Change and Behaviour Researcher

AUTHOR’S NOTE

WIN Duchinni D977 helmet

The rise of the Chinese bikes

Letters

BEST OF BOTH WORLDS • This is a hugely important bike for Husqvarna as the dirt-bike specialist enters the highly competitive adventure market for the first time with the all-new Norden 901

HUSQVARNA NORDEN 901

How close is it to the KTM range?

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

The biggest of the big • Dave takes the big guns from the States and Japan out to see who’s the champion of the super-heavyweight class…

HARLEY-DAVIDSON ULTRA LIMITED

HARLEY DAVIDSON ULTRA LIMITED

HONDA GOLD WING TOUR

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CONCLUSION

The perks of being NAKED • This unassuming bike has a special place in Suzuki’s range

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Another travel story emerges • Crossing Africa in 1981... on a Suzuki GT250

Corniche de Devonde • North Devon’s rocky coast, with French directions

Rockets & Racing • Remember the last pre-Covid summer? Emrys Jones rode to Oschersleben for the World Endurance Championship

Looking sparky • Is our electric future all plain sailing?

Who is Millington?

Albania Plus • First of a two-part series – MSL regular Jeremy Torr explores Eastern Europe: Albania, Serbia, Romania

Getting to Albania

ALL THE COOL KIDS TRAVEL LIGHT • How much prep and tech does it take to ride from Coventry to Tehran? Not a lot, figured the Marshalls who had a strict no intercoms policy, and didn’t even bother with a map…

Wheels for weight watchers • Losing weight is tough. That goes for motorcycle wheels, too. Luckily, clever people can do...