New cycling mag

[bpsmith]

I really dont get people who wont read a mag just because they mention the word helmet or dare to show one in photo's or reviews.

 

[Christopher]

It was the letters page that got my goat. Articles in that issue didn't push any particular viewpoint wrt helmets. The l'Eroica article said that h*****s were neither required or frowned upon, "it's your head". I think that is the right attitude so I will probably buy it again...

 

[bpsmith]

The thing is what is the default. Helmets shown in photos or not? There is no middle ground. Unless you show a mixture, of course.

 

[Peteaud]

Got mine, but it seems a bit meh at fist glance.

Will have a proper read when i get time.

 

[Shadow]

Mine arrived yesterday and managed to look at the first few pages. Stopped to read the full article on 'Bikes for Big Climbs' or some such - mostly because it was based on one of my favourite little hills!. @vickster might be, or maybe not, interested that one of the 3 tested was one of Trek's WSD bikes.
Will report back when I've had a better look.

 

[vickster]

I've looked through half of it. Yep one woman's bike reviewed, a teeny mention of the World Champ CX lady and I spotted a woman in the Whyte advert (on the wonderfully named Victoria hybrid )

 

[bpsmith]

With a predominantly male reader base it must be very hard to balance the articles towards the ladies. The adverts are totally out of their control.

1 out of 3 of the climbing bike article is fair I reckon?

 

[Elybazza61]

Sister mag Cyclist seems to review a bike for the fairer sex pretty regularly now and has a regular female writer as well(same bod as in cycling etc?).
I've just cancelled my cycling active subs as I just found it a bit dull and now subscibe to Cyclist,Bikes etc and Rouleur;get cycling+ and cycling weekly occasionally if there is anything of interest.

 

[MrPie]

Nae, nae and thrice nae. Cycling Plus was OK right up to the point where the contents page was posted on page 13...after all the adverts = Subscription cancelled. It didn't take long before 'Cyclist' went the same way, plus the whole mag, and I mean the whole mag was

 

[MrPie]

.......adverts

 

[bpsmith]

Reaches for latest Cyclist mag.

 

[bpsmith]

Contents start on Page 10. Front cover and inside are counted as Page 1 and 2, btw. 57 advert pages. 180 total pages. Let's see how others line up against that and then compare how many destinations they have travelled to for the articles too...

 

[Smokin Joe]

I haven't bought a cycling mag for about three years now. Everything you need to know is on the net and first hand customer product reviews are far more useful than journalists road tests, bearing in mind the manufacturer is often shelling out a small fortune in advertising revenue to the mag in question.

Probably the reason the cycling press never investigate the avalanche of complaints about a certain well known retailer.

 

[pawl]

Mine arrived today. I'll be interested to see how much is aimed at female cyclists

Mine arrived today,think iwill stick with cycling active.

 

[MisterStan]

Still working through mine, but while I enjoyed the article on Chris Boardman, I did think it could have been longer....