What's yer mag?

[Drago]

Even the free one CyclingUK send me goes straight in the recycling.

 

[rualexander]

I subscribe to Readly online magazine service where Cycling Weekly, Urban Cyclist, Cycling Plus, Rouleur are all available, plus numerous other magazines on all subjects, all for £8 a month.
Great for reading the articles you are interested in and skipping through the rest of the guff.
As for physical paper magazines, I usually buy Cyclist which has better articles than most but is a bit roadie/sportive focused, but they usually feature a factory visit which can be interesting, plus a european road route, a UK route, a foreign sportive, a pro racer interview, etc, etc.

 

[Drago]

When I was in to my 4x4s I'd occasionally pick up a mag. Not because I was remotely interested in reading the guff written by the journos, but because it was interesting reading about projects built by other people. Unfortunately, there's no real cycling equivalent to such builds, except for the home frame builders, who are probably too few and far between to sustain a magazine.

 

[vickster]

Even the free one CyclingUK send me goes straight in the recycling.

Why not just tell them you don't want it, save on the postage and the magazine quality paper?

 

[Drago]

Can you do that?

 

[smutchin]

There was one called women's cycling but it folded.

This is why there aren't cycling mags for women - not commercially viable. It's a shame, and possibly a bit of a chicken/egg thing, but cycling mags are considered to be men's mags in much the same way that cookery mags are considered to be women's mags even though they have male readers.

This is generally a decision made by publishers rather than editors. I can assure you that cycling mag editors would like to include more content for women but it would affect sales so publishers won't let them.

Total Women's Cycling is good, but exists only online.

 

[Heltor Chasca]

AUK's mag.

Boneshaker

Yehuda Moon comics.

 

[vickster]

Can you do that?

Call and ask!

 

[smutchin]

Are they seriously saying men would stop buying the mags and their sales would suffer?

Yes, exactly that.

 

[videoman]

At £5.50 for Cycling Plus, a monthly mag full of mostly high end bikes and clothing is not my idea of a good read or value for money. Purchased a copy of Cycling World a few weeks ago whilst on holiday at £5.50 but what a load of rubbish, filled with adverts for caravan sites and hotels. Used to be about cycle touring but I think it has lost its way and become very overpriced. Don't know what happened to Cycling Active but BikesEtc appears to have taken over, another mag full of adverts.

 

[further]

Boneshaker

 

[Sharky]

For years (decades), it used to be Cycling. Even remember reading my Dad's copies of "Cycling & Mopeds", but the increase in adverts and lack of real reporting, particularly of UK time trials etc eventually made me stop.

 

[Vegan1]

Pathetic. Men, that is.

Get you.

 

[smutchin]

Pathetic. Men, that is.

This is not news to anyone!

 

[ufkacbln]

Velovision was a different breed (although again now out of publication

Used to be quarterly (ish), but had articles on bikes and other aspects that most magazines did not touch