Motorcycle Sport & Leisure

Before MSL, there was MCS, part one

Before there was a Motorcycle Sport and Leisure, there was Motorcycle Sport. For most of its life, Sport subtitled itself The Quality Monthly, and it was both those things, especially if you cared about BMWs, MZs and Vincents. And cared not at all about Japanese bikes, especially the fast, four-cylinder ones. What junk. Why, some of them weighed 500 pounds!

writers identified themselves by appending their initials to their articles. Sometimes those initials were forgotten when the magazine was printed. A few pages were numbered annually, page one in January’s edition, page 500 in December’s. Charming, huh?

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