Disappointed with Cycling Active magazine's new style of concentrating on serious road bikes?

[claudbutler]

I am a suscriber to cycling active but the new format has been a BIG DISAPOINTMENT,now looking for anew magazine any surgestions?

 

[cyberknight]

Not cycling plus thats for sure, i am going to cancel my sub to it as i have had enough .

 

[vickster]

I've just signed up for 3 issues of Bikes etc for 3 issues for £3 through British Cycling. I intend to cancel afterwards (if I remember). My CA subs finished a month or two back, didn't bother renewing

If not a BC member, you can get 3 for £5 here http://bikesetc.co.uk/?ppcad=true&gclid=COWcpMSCk8gCFQb4wgodA8cHvw

Or for £6, can get 3 of Bikes etc and 3 of Cyclist in a bundle http://dennis.subscribeonline.co.uk...tion=true&_ga=1.56345193.310524461.1443212776

 

[subaqua]

cycling is the new golf innit. so you have people with disposable incomes spending huge wodges. the magazine is catering to that.

but yes it is a bit gash and i don't want to read about £3k bikes .

 

[mickle]

They're all full of lies. I can't open a cycling magazine anymore. I appreciate how difficult it must be to write something new and interesting about every Taiwanese cookie cutter bike that comes out, but OMG.

 

[AndyK2479]

I flicked through it and thought they have ruined it, £2000 wheel sets reviewed?

Definitely aimed at the new money in cycling. Looks like they are going into competition with Cycling Plus. I'm having my subscription cancelled, I usually have it as an Xmas present.

 

[Drago]

I never liked it any way, so no great loss.

 

[Hill Wimp]

Complete toot for the everyday cyclist who is never likely to spend £2000 on a bike.

 

[Smokin Joe]

They're all full of lies. I can't open a cycling magazine anymore. I appreciate how difficult it must be to write something new and interesting about every Taiwanese cookie cutter bike that comes out, but OMG.

I never even flick through one on the shelf now and I haven't done for a few years, despite working part time in a newsagents. They're just consumer review rubbish with the "Testers" doing little more than quoting the manufacturer's blurb verbatim.

 

[Drago]

What's a 'serious' road bike?

 

[Smokin Joe]

What's a 'serious' road bike?

A matt black one.

 

[snorri]

We can never expect anything more of cycle mags until cycling becomes a commonplace activity in this country, and that's a long way away..

 

[Drago]

Ah, so not one with a constant frown then?

 

[Sunny Portrush]

I`m a subscriber too and am really disappointed with the new format - subscription runs for a while yet but I really can`t see me re-newing. The old format and style of writing used to make me laugh out loud. The bikes now in the magazine are a pipe-dream for me, I will never be able to afford one, it was a real push getting my current one on the cycle to work scheme so that gives you an idea of my spending limits!

 

[snorri]

What's a 'serious' road bike?

Well, it's like a fantasy bike, in fact for the vast majority of sensible people it is a fantasy bike.