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.

The generation game

Motorcycle Sport & Leisure

News • Need to know ◆ New models ◆ Industry info

Malcom Wheeler – a tribute

Put on your GLAD RAGS • Echoes of bikes from nigh on half a century ago applied to a new age chassis and powerplant result in what could be a new icon for the brand

Products

Products

TERA, TERA, TERA! • Bimota’s back, thanks to new owners Kawasaki. We visited the firm’s UK HQ to find out more, and have a quick spin on its eye-catching new model, the wild supercharged Tera mega-adventure tourer

Time to read • Something different this month from Maynard, a book Rave-View: Motorcycle Grand Prix (Insider Stories from World Championship Racing), by Adam Wheeler

Letters

BACK IN THE DAY...

Eight decades OF AGGRESSION • MV Agusta celebrates its 80th anniversary this year and to mark the occasion, it is introducing the limited edition Ottantesimo range.

An interview with Dr Luca Martin, CEO of MV Agusta Motor S.p.A • With MV Agusta once again fully independent and under the control of the Sardarov brothers, Timur and Ratmir, we caught up with CEO Luca Martin at the Varese factory to hear his plans for the iconic Italian manufacturer

Legal Eagle • Our motorcycling man of law answers questions big and small

The Gloves are on! Time to swap for some winter warmers • With the ever-changing seasons and winter fast approaching, it’s time to consider switching up your kit to keep the chills at bay. Gloves are a key part of any rider’s wardrobe. As temperatures drop and the weather becomes increasingly unpredictable, it’s time to swap to a more robust pair of mitts.

Urban SUPERBIKE • Motorcycle or scooter? When even the manufacturer doesn’t know, the lines are definitely blurred!

The Long Way to a Full Licence • There is no one time, place or way to get into motorcycling. We all have our own stories of how it all started for us. This is Linda’s story…

Never mind the length, feel the girth • The UK market is notoriously staid when it comes to radical departures from the norm. So is it ready for the LFC700, which is neither normal, or staid…

Write about your ride! • Share your travel story, and bag a free magazine subscription

A river runs through it • Most of us have a river running through our lives. It may be the Thames, the Mersey, the Clyde, or the Wye. With around 1,500 rivers in the UK, most of us can identify with one. For me, it’s the River Tweed. The Tweed rises near Moffat in the central Borders, and 95 miles later it flows into the North Sea at Berwick upon Tweed in Northumberland, England.

Automatic for the people • Unexpected success of a product doesn’t necessarily mean it’s right for you

May Day, May Day! • It’s Saturday of the VE-Day May bank holiday weekend. Looking at the blue canopy above, there are none of those awful shenanigans of 80 years ago, but back on the ground, I seem to have a few of my own.

Wild Mustang • A wild ride to Upper Mustang through Himalayan mountains, deserts and canyons to Nepal’s last frontier

Test fleet: Yamaha Tracer 9 GT • Time spent not riding his long termer doesn’t mean time off two wheels for Al.

Test fleet: Kawasaki ZX4-RR • Six hours in the saddle from East Yorkshire to the Lake District and back - can Kawasaki’s ZX-4RR be used in the real world?

Test fleet: Honda NT1100 DCT ES • A busy month sees the NT1100 being prepared for a few days touring Scotland. In its element north of the...