Cycling Magazines - recommendations? - Page 3

Thanks for all the suggestions. I really hadn't realised there were so many!! I have to confess that
I think the subscription is more for me than my husband. So I looked in Borders, as someone
suggested, and very much liked the look of Cycling Plus. I'm actually English (living in the US) -
and so this one was particuarly appealing. I also came across another British magazine 'Cycling
Weekly' - this was the New Year edition, and was really quite good. Someone also mentioned an East
Coast magazine 'The Ride' - which also looks great... decisions, decisions. Though I'm sure you
can't have too many bike magazines!

Thanks again.

Reenie

> > Cycling Plus is decent:
> >
> >
> http://www.futurenet.com/futureonlin...sp?id=12&div=4
> >
> > There's also Asphalt:
> >
> > http://www.asphaltmag.com/index.htm
> >
> >
> > --
> > xrinafzvgu23@lnubb.pbz Get your neck massaged. 59
>
> Cycling Plus is good, though oriented toward UK cycling. I think it's better on touring and
> general cycling than any of the US mags. It costs about $5 an issue to subscribe to if you live
> in the US.

On 31 Dec 2003 06:17:05 -0800, reenie@mailandnews.com (Reenie) wrote:

>I'm actually English

So, you've been faking us out all this time, and now the truth comes out...

On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 02:24:05 GMT, "Tom Kunich" <tkunich@earthlink.net>
wrote:

(snippage)
>I have the October, November and December issues which were given to me and I sure don't see many
>"good" articles. I'll have to go back through them but for sure the old days with 10 long articles
>in a magazine are long gone.

Yes, that's just it. It isn't that there are no good articles at all, but that there is at most one
article worth reading per issue.

IMHO as always.

Happy New Year!

MP

"Billy Bigelow" <nomail@thank.you> wrote in message
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> "Fabrizio Mazzoleni" <chipomarc@yahoo.com>
> > "Roger Zoul" <rogerzoul2@hotmail.com> wrote in message >
> > > I'm not a pro, I want something for the average joe
> >
> > Sometimes I think we will never weed out those 'types' from our sport!
>
> Your sport. The Gay Olympics.

Everyone is so jealous of Fabrizio!

Ah, but I do live in the States, now!

Reenie
>
> >I'm actually English
>
> So, you've been faking us out all this time, and now the truth comes out...

"Reenie" <reenie@mailandnews.com> wrote in message
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> Do any of you subscribe to any cycling magazines, and, if so, which ones are particularly good.
> I'm thinking of getting a subscription for my husband... any specific thoughts in regard to 'Pro-
> Cycling' magazine?
>

I second the recommendations for Cycling Plus, and Adventure Cyclist. I would also highly recommend
"Cycle", the magazine that comes free if you join Britain's Cyclists' Touring Club. The mag' comes
out every two months, and I think is better than Cycling Plus, or any commercial magazine, and is
less specialized than Adventure Cycling. See www.ctc.org.uk for more about the CTC, which might be
almost worth joining for its own sake, even if you live in the USA, especially now that the LAB is
degrading so spectacularly.

Jeremy Parker

On 29 Dec 2003 11:57:00 -0800, reenie@mailandnews.com (Reenie) wrote:

>Do any of you subscribe to any cycling magazines, and, if so, which ones are particularly good.

I subscribe to Velovision (full of non-standard bikes, folders, recumbents, that kind of thing) and
Cycle which is the magazine of the UK's Cyclists' Touring Club.

Both are great. But prolly not what you were looking for ;-)

Guy
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May contain traces of irony. Contents liable to settle after posting.
http://chapmancentral.demon.co.uk

In article <na46vvca4h9ohmimph6tkta0aa3qsp5snh@4ax.com>,
MP <Schlabotnik@DELETESPAMmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 02:24:05 GMT, "Tom Kunich" <tkunich@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> (snippage)
> >I have the October, November and December issues which were given to me and I sure don't see many
> >"good" articles. I'll have to go back through them but for sure the old days with 10 long
> >articles in a magazine are long gone.
>
> Yes, that's just it. It isn't that there are no good articles at all, but that there is at most
> one article worth reading per issue.

That's not quite fair. Bicycling follows a pretty simple formula, similar to most buff books: a
new-product/news/gossip section up front, a bunch of product tests in the middle, and the
feature section.

For new cyclists, I would say that most of the magazine will be in some way constructively
informative. The tests are mediocre, the back page is bizarre, but the training and bike-handling
advice is acceptable.

The feature section deserves special praise for rising above the usual "I went to fabulous
destination X and did this magazine's featured activity there."

_Bicycling_ isn't great, but it's the only national general-interest bike magazine around. it could
be much worse, and the features are surprisingly good. That's worth noting, especially given the
conventional wisdom that it's not worth the paper it's printed on.

--
Ryan Cousineau, rcousine@sfu.ca http://www.sfu.ca/~rcousine President, Fabrizio Mazzoleni Fan Club

Ryan Cousineau <rcousine@sfu.ca> wrote in news:rcousine-467D5E.01011005012004
@morgoth.sfu.ca:
> That's not quite fair. Bicycling follows a pretty simple formula, similar to most buff books: a
> new-product/news/gossip section up front, a bunch of product tests in the middle, and the feature
> section.
>
> For new cyclists, I would say that most of the magazine will be in some way constructively
> informative.

I have no problem with their formula (that's their choice), but the writing is so mediocre and
shallow that I doubt that even new cyclists will learn much from the magazine.

"Ken" <nospam@no.no> wrote in message
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> Ryan Cousineau <rcousine@sfu.ca> wrote in
news:rcousine-467D5E.01011005012004
> @morgoth.sfu.ca:
> > That's not quite fair. Bicycling follows a pretty simple formula, similar to most buff books: a
> > new-product/news/gossip section up front, a bunch of product tests in the middle, and the
> > feature section.
> >
> > For new cyclists, I would say that most of the magazine will be in some way constructively
> > informative.
>
> I have no problem with their formula (that's their choice), but the
writing
> is so mediocre and shallow that I doubt that even new cyclists will learn much from the magazine.

After a 2-year hiatus, I am trying Bicycling Magazine again. I swore that I never would, in fact, I
wrote the editor last time and complained about the writing, writing style, and the "USA-Today"
style format since apparently they believe most of us have the attention span of a Game Cube-playing
10-year old.

Unfortunately, it is the only US rag which does not focus on racing.

I really like the newsletter for RoadBikeRider.com. If only they put out a hardcopy version. The
guys that write for RBR (Pavelka and Matheny and now Langley) do it well without the overkill.
Yeah, I could do without the plugs for all the books, but the content is good and they write well.
If you ask me, Bicycling magazine was at its prime in the mid to late 80s when these guys were
contributing editors.

I bet they would have a great following with the cycling baby-boom generation if they went to press.

My 2 cents.

Kerry