Magazine Info request.

"Martin Wilson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

Quoted message said:

I got someone to get me a copy of Cycling Weekly and it took about 3
mins to get through it skipping the bits I wasn't interested in.
However the two mountain bike magazines are good for 3 or 4 hours it
seems and Cycling Plus is probably good for a couple hours.

I think you've more or less worked things out for yourself! There's a new
Cycling Plus out tomorrow as it happens. Of course there are cycling books
you can borrow from the library, just go to Amazon and search for cycling in
the books category and see what there is.

--
Simon Mason
Anlaby
East Yorkshire.
53°44'N 0°26'W
http://www.simonmason.karoo.net

in message <[email hidden]>, Martin Wilson

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As I'm getting back into cycling I've been picking up various
magazines to read related to cycling. So far I've read Cycling Plus,
Cycling Weekly, What Mountain Bike and Mountain Biking. As I work
nights its always nice to have something to read during the lunch
break. However the subject matter is a bit hit and miss for me so I
was wondering if I stated what I'm actually interested in and not
interested in if someone with a good knowledge of the cycling scene
could tell me of good sites, forums and magazines/fanzines to read.

There are two cycling magazines worth reading that are published in the
UK. They are, respectively

* VeloVision <URL:http://www.velovision.co.uk>
Mainly road (in the sense of tarmac, not in the sense of racing)
bikes, innovation, recumbents, velomobiles, utility cycling. Well
written, well researched, very quirky. Keeps you up to date with
interesting new ideas and developments in cycling.

* Singletrack <URL:http://www.singletrackworld.com/>
The oh-so-beautifully-produced mountain bike magazine for adults.
Journalism a bit uneven sometimes but production values peerless -
and even when the journalism's poor it's a damn sight better than
the best in the other MTB rags.

--
[email hidden] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

;; All in all you're just another hick in the mall
-- Drink C'lloid

Simon Mason said:

"Martin Wilson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

Quoted message said:

I got someone to get me a copy of Cycling Weekly and it took about 3
mins to get through it skipping the bits I wasn't interested in.
However the two mountain bike magazines are good for 3 or 4 hours it
seems and Cycling Plus is probably good for a couple hours.

I think you've more or less worked things out for yourself! There's a new
Cycling Plus out tomorrow as it happens.

Containing a letter from one Vernon Simmons. (It turns up a few days
earlier for subscribers.)

Colin

Simon Brooke wrote:
[snip]

Quoted message said:

There are two cycling magazines worth reading that are published in the
UK. They are, respectively

* VeloVision <URL:http://www.velovision.co.uk>
Mainly road (in the sense of tarmac, not in the sense of racing)
bikes, innovation, recumbents, velomobiles, utility cycling. Well
written, well researched, very quirky. Keeps you up to date with
interesting new ideas and developments in cycling.

* Singletrack <URL:http://www.singletrackworld.com/>
The oh-so-beautifully-produced mountain bike magazine for adults.
Journalism a bit uneven sometimes but production values peerless -
and even when the journalism's poor it's a damn sight better than
the best in the other MTB rags.

And A2B (www.atob.org.uk). A fun and irreverant magazine that grew out
of "The Folder". Strong on real-life commuting, folders, electric
assist and rail-bike, mixed-mode travel.

The free CTC comic (Cycling) meets the OP's spec pretty well too.

Peter

Seconding the opinions of others:

Join CTC and get Cycling, which does a lot of what you want. And
subscribe to Velovision for unusual bikes (it takes longer to read
than almost any other magazine I buy, full of good stuff).

C+ is better than CW even if CW have just sent me a shiny new track
pump. And for industry news go to <url:http://www.bikebiz.com>

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

88% of helmet statistics are made up, 65% of them at Washington University

Just zis Guy said:

Seconding the opinions of others:

Join CTC and get Cycling, which does a lot of what you want. And
subscribe to Velovision for unusual bikes (it takes longer to read
than almost any other magazine I buy, full of good stuff).

The CTC mag is called Cycle (OK, OK, cue calls of "pedant"😉 but ads do
seem to dominate.
I certainly agree that VeloVision is exceptional and certainly one thar
gets read from cover to cover several times - likewise AtoB.

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C+ is better than CW

As is the Beano and *anything* else.

CW has now even stopped listing non-racing events in its calendar
section as well as sticking a money-grabbing premium [1] on the cover
price for the TdF.

[1] doesn't really affect me as I occasionally spend scanning the drivel
(out of habit) in a couple of minutes in the high street WHS library ;-)

John B

JohnB <[email hidden]> wrote:
:> C+ is better than CW

: As is the Beano and *anything* else.

Well, I'll be different and defend the Comic here. It caters to the
racing market and nothing else. That's cool. Either you like it or
you don't but at least it doesn't try and be all things to all people.

--
Arthur Clune http://www.clune.org
"Technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect"
- Paulina Borsook

Peter Amey <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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Simon Brooke wrote:
[snip]

Quoted message said:

There are two cycling magazines worth reading that are published in the
UK. They are, respectively

* VeloVision <URL:http://www.velovision.co.uk>
* Singletrack <URL:http://www.singletrackworld.com/>

Quoted message said:

And A2B (www.atob.org.uk). A fun and irreverant magazine that grew out
of "The Folder". Strong on real-life commuting, folders, electric
assist and rail-bike, mixed-mode travel.

The free CTC comic (Cycling) meets the OP's spec pretty well too.

I quite like Cycling World once in a while. Mostly slightly whimsical
day ride and short tour reports. Many of the correspondents look like
trike riders but seem to favour upright claud butlers. (not much)
more info at stoneleisure.com

best wishes
james

Arthur Clune said:

JohnB <[email hidden]> wrote:
:> C+ is better than CW

: As is the Beano and *anything* else.

Well, I'll be different and defend the Comic here. It caters to the
racing market and nothing else. That's cool. Either you like it or
you don't but at least it doesn't try and be all things to all people.

Yep - to those who like to scan the miniscule print for their four words
of fame in the TT results ;-)
I *know*. I was one once but was cured.

You are right though, and it is a fair comment.
It does sometimes have a spread on non-racing issues with news on such
items as the Bike Bus in Surrey, and it did cover the h*lm*t issue
reasonably well.

I'll still stick with the couple of minutes in WHS tho'.

John B

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 12:45:42 GMT, JohnB <[email hidden]> wrote in
message <[email hidden]>:

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The CTC mag is called Cycle (OK, OK, cue calls of "pedant"😉

Pedant!

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

C+ is better than CW

As is the Beano and *anything* else.

True :-)

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

88% of helmet statistics are made up, 65% of them at Washington University

Arthur Clune said:

JohnB <[email hidden]> wrote:
:> C+ is better than CW

: As is the Beano and *anything* else.

Well, I'll be different and defend the Comic here. It caters to the
racing market and nothing else. That's cool. Either you like it or
you don't but at least it doesn't try and be all things to all people.

I'll defend the Comic, too. I read C+ because it covers my kind of cycling,
but I like to keep an eye on the racing scene so I buy the Comic, too.

Sometimes I read the results of the 'fish and chip' events and see names I
recognise from a while back.

I even enjoy the articles by their Comedy Ex-Pro Tony Bell, but that's
probably because my memory stretches back to his pro days, brief as they
were.

JohnB said:

"Just zis Guy, you know?" wrote:

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C+ is better than CW

As is the Beano and *anything* else.

My grate frend gNick subscribes to all three... This all goes to show
something, although I'm sure I don't know what.

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Dave Larrington - http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/
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Mike K Smith <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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Arthur Clune said:

JohnB <[email hidden]> wrote:
:> C+ is better than CW

Quoted message said:

: As is the Beano and *anything* else.

Well, I'll be different and defend the Comic here. It caters to the
racing market and nothing else. That's cool. Either you like it or
you don't but at least it doesn't try and be all things to all people.

I'll defend the Comic, too. I read C+ because it covers my kind of cycling,
but I like to keep an eye on the racing scene so I buy the Comic, too.

Agreed - CW is good for racing coverage (the shrewd folks at St. John
Street obviously realise it's largely aimed at the racing element,
producing CW ads with very different content to those found in C+).
Both mags have good Small Ads sections, too, for folks like me who are
rapidly parted from their cash at the very mention of the word
'bargain'. C+ probably has the edge, though, as their ads are free to
place, and don't have a word limit as far as I'm aware.

David E. Belcher