Does anybody here read "Rouleur"?

[NickM]

I bought a copy on a whim (an expensive whim) in Condor the other day. It's nicely presented, and evokes fairly well the specialness and mystique of cycling culture... but I thought that most of the writing and photography wasn't as quite as good as it ought to have been to merit such lavish presentation. And it only lasted me an afternoon.

And £9 a go? Strewth, the equivalent hi-fi magazine is only a fiver! Perhaps I ought to be charging the people I've lent it to?

 

[Noodley]

I bought one copy to read an article written by Robert Millar. The Millar article was excellent, but the rest of it was style over substance in the extreme.

 

[Fnaar]

You can also get the Rouleur storage box... a snip at on £50 Strewth!

 

[Chuffy]

Hmmmm, something with a French title, sold in Condor and designed to evoke the 'specialness and mystique of cycling culture' sets my pretentious-crap-ometer off. Does it come with a Rapha bookmark (rrp £25) hand-tooled from the skin of ex-pros?

 

[Noodley]

You can also get the Rouleur storage box... a snip at on £50 Strewth!

Click on 'View Full Size Image" tab...it is obviously a special kind of box which allows things much larger to fit into smaller spaces...

 

[John the Monkey]

I've been tempted by Rouleur, on occasion, but never actually stumped up for one.

I have read the Ride Journal, which I quite liked - great photography (in issue two at least) and I enjoyed most of the articles.

Issue one is a available as a free pdf;
http://www.theridejournal.com/

 

[Fnaar]

Mind you, I'd quite like to read a copy... do you get them in barber's shops or dentist's waiting rooms?

 

[Dayvo]

Mind you, I'd quite like to read a copy... do you get them in barber's shops or dentist's waiting rooms?

Or better still; the job-centre!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Last order I had delivered from Prendas Ciclismo had a sampler copy of Rouleur - it was very nice and stylish but there's no way I'd stump up the dosh they're asking for a full copy!

 

[Kirstie]

Nine quid a quarter though...if you spend three quid on your monthly mag, like C+, it's the same price.

Just looks pretentious to me...

 

[Dayvo]

I bought a copy on a whim (an expensive whim) in Condor the other day. And £9 a go?

I pay £8 to get the 'ordinary' cycling mags here!

 

[NickM]

Yeah, and beer is expensive there too... can't think why you live there when they have golf courses in Belgium!

 

[NickM]

...the Ride Journal...

Issue one is a available as a free pdf;
http://www.theridejournal.com/

Cheers, JtM - something with which to while away the afternoon is always welcome (I think I've surfed every other cycling-related bit of the Web now...)

 

[Dayvo]

Yeah, and beer is expensive there too... can't think why you live there when they have golf courses in Belgium!

Ah, but what's the hourly pay there?