Motorcycle Sport & Leisure - July 2025

In this issue

BMW F900 / F900XR The Bavarian parallel twin’s update Ducati Streetfighter V2 Smaller capacity, with more potential Triumph Trident 660 It’s a feisty little puppy! Yamaha MT-07 Twin cylinder MT with the triple’s tech KTM Super Duke 1390 R Brutalist style, and brutalist function!

Yamaha's prototype MT-09 hybrid

On the face of it, hybrid powertrains offer a solid option for helping to decarbonise motorcycle design.

1 min

Ducati Panigale V4 Lamborghini Edition

We're simple folk here at MSL.

1 min

Cadwell Summer Bike Bash

SUMMER BIKE BASH

1 min

Track trialled twin

The F900 has had an image makeover by becoming the obligatory one make support class at British Super Bike race meetings with the F900 Cup where stripped back but otherwise standard F900s get the sort of thrashing only a grid full of up-and-coming wannabe's and occasional ex-pro's can dish out. The up-shot is that there can be no doubt the humble F900 has entered the hearts and minds of many people who otherwise may not have noticed it.

8 mins

Lose weight, GO FAST

Lighter, sportier and powered by the Italian factory's all-new V2, is the Ducati Streetfighter V2 truly a naked Panigale V2 sports bike?

8 mins

Your flexible FRIEND

Triumph Trident 660 - Once perceived as the factory's entry level model, has Triumph's refreshed and re-teched Trident now moved up the standings?

6 mins

Magnificent 7

Yamaha MT-07 - The MT-07 has been a best-seller for more than a decade. This new version sees its biggest updates so far

6 mins

TOURING THE COLLECTION - Retro Tours & Joel Samick

Have you ever discovered something that has you asking yourself, “Why hasn't anyone ever done this before? It seems so obvious, and yet...” (The ‘and yet’ is usually the reason why not, but still...)

10+ mins

MAP, OR ELECTRONIC NAVIGATION?

Where am I? Which way do I go? Am I lost? And is that a bad thing?...

2 mins

The Brutalist

Regardless of the figures for power output, torque and weight, or for the issues the company has been going through over the last half a year or so, the very first comment from any bystander with regard to the 1390 Super Duke R is always about the way that it looks...

9 mins

Borders to Lakes

A return to motorcycling for two brothers sees some iconic ground covered

4 mins

Respect has many faces. Not all golden.

Choke on? Check. Ignition and warning lights on? Check. ‘Kill’ switch to ‘run?’ Check. Stab the starter button and the early morning silence of a quiet, suburban cul-de-sac in late May evaporates as a pair of horizontally opposed pistons burst into an industrial rhythmic motion.

8 mins

From the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean

On a previous trip to America, a friend recommended riding the Blue Ridge Parkway. After a year of planning and saving, that's precisely what Willie set out to do.

8 mins

Test fleet: Kawasaki Ninja 1100SX SE

After attending the launch event for the Ninja1100SX SE in Spain, Andy had this model at the top of his wish list as a potential termer for this year. Was his time on the launch event just a honeymoon period or, now that he'll be spending all summer with it, will this machine going to prove his initial feelings were right?

4 mins

Test fleet: Honda NT1100 DCT ES

Now his for a year, the first 500 miles on the NT1100 have let Mossy discover some of its virtues, and some of its vices...

4 mins

Test fleet: Yamaha Tracer 9 GT

Back to the future - Al reflects on an earlier long termer, and how development and time brings him to his ride for 2025

3 mins

Test fleet: Honda XL750 Transalp

It might be a month before the big event itself, but Chad takes the Transalp on a TT Road trip

2 mins

Test fleet: Suzuki V-Strom 1050 Tour

The big ‘Strom soon becomes Dave's default transport

3 mins

Road to recovery

When life is tough, biking can be the silver lining that helps you get through it all.

4 mins

England's peripatetic motorcycle engineers

Movers and shakers in the global mechanical engineering world

3 mins

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