Motorcycle Sport & Leisure – January 2019

The magazine you’re reading right now is Motorcycle Sport & Leisure, issue 700. Yep, 700!There’s not many magazines that can claim the same history, prestige and longevity. MSL has carried motorcycling news, tests, opinions and insights for longer than most of us have been riding (or even been alive). But the magazine never grows old, and has no intention of slowing down.

The team behind the mag is still as enthusiastic about bringing you the latest and greatest in motorcycling as it always has been. And to tell you
the truth, we’re having far too much fun to stop now! I’ll try to refrain from too much navel-gazing, but the magazine’s deep and rich roots make me
immensely proud to be part of the MSL team today.

So bear with me, this is the shortest history lesson you’ve ever had – I promise!

The first MSL appeared in 1962, the same year when the Cuban missile crisis threatened to turn the whole earth into a nuclear testing site, and Marilyn Monroe sang Happy Birthday to President Kennedy. Back then, MSL went by the name of Motorcycle Sport, and instead of the Cuban crisis and presidential liaisons it concentrated on what the title suggested, along with
other timely motorcycling topics.

From that first issue the magazine evolved into one of the most important motorcycling monthlies in the UK. Along the way there have been features on topics as exotic as sidecar racing on grass and dispatch riders in the war, as well as the usual reviews of the latest metal, leather and rubber that keeps the industry going. Today we want to keep on delivering the same high standard of motorcycling journalism that has been the MSL trademark over the years – some things are best left unchanged.