Feature Articles
Mona Lisa motorcycle - RSD Desmo tracker road test
3 February 2012
Made by Roland Sands, this is what happens when you take a Ducati MotoGP replica and have an idea for a modern type of big balls dirt tracker. We like this. We like this a lot.
Must ride roads: El Volcán to Playa de las Américas
3 February 2012.
El Volcán. A cliché of all that is Spanish. Palm trees, cafes and even those twisty narrow, cobbled streets that come overlooked by centuries-old architecture.
BMW's G650GS: 70mpg+ Good fun, Great looks
6 January 2012.
The no-brainer for the smart people... This is one bike MSL wants to bring to the attention of those riders who perhaps have overlooked it in the past.
MSL touring: The odd couple
6 January 2012.
Riders clocking up big biking mileages isn’t such an unusual feat. But a couple who’ve done 50,000 miles two-up together on a GSX-R1000? Well, that’s a very different story.
First Ride: Kawasaki ER-6n 2012: Third time’s a charm
2 December 2011.
This isn’t how most ER-6ns will be ridden very often, but right now I’m having too much fun to care. A dozen or so revamped middleweight parallel twins are making a fast-moving snake through the Portuguese countryside, as Kawasaki’s lead rider sets a spirited pace up a winding road in the hills north of Faro in Portugal’s Algarve. Game on...
Ooh la Loire
2 December 2011.
A few days in France? Dawn and Nik Swift took Le Shuttle (and BMW F800STs) to the Loire Valley
Over the top - Day ride
4 November 2011.
A long day over the North York Moors, courtesy of IMTC – the International Motorcycle Tour Club.
Dancing with the Diavel
4 November 2011.
Not quite sure what ‘He who allocates bikes’ (Ringmaster Rose) is trying to say to me, but for the third month running (after the Harley and the V-Max) I’d been handed the keys for a motorcycle I would not, ever, contemplate owning. Or so I thought.
Ducati 848: Dr Jekyll, meet Mr Hyde
7 October 2011.
Ducati don’t build race replicas, they build road replicas of their race bikes. And, for most road riders, the 848 EVO is the best of the lot.
Coast to coast - One day’s ride
7 October 2011.
First in a series of one day rides in the UK that are easy to do. And to kick off, Weston-super-Mare (Somerset) to West Bay (Dorset)
Current Issue: March 2012
• Brilliant!
New KTM Duke - less hardcore but more fun for 2012 -
69bhp fun, 75mpg sense, cheaper than a Yamaha Diversion
• Gorgeous!
Desmosedici flat-tracker
• Groovy!
Suzuki’s GT750 - The very funky two-stroke that epitomised the 1970s
• MSL touring
Your stories about riding Scotland, Switzerland and the Yukon!
• Plus
• Scar City
• The Derringer: Uber cool board racer for modern city roads
• Triumph’s Tiger 1050 v KTM’s 990SMT
• MSL First: Riding the Steve McQueen Replica
PLUS:
• Next issue on sale: 2 March 2012
