Before MSL, there was MCS, part two

Before there was a Motorcycle Sport & Leisure, there was Motorcycle Sport. Subtitled The Quality Monthly, it was both, especially if you cared about British and European bikes – and loathed Japanese ones, especially fast, four-cylinder ones. What junk.

writers could simply assume that their readers were riders for life, that those readers had ridden in decades past, and that they had loved the treacherous machines, inadequate clothing, and criminally unreliable lighting, despite it all.