Originally Posted by
shakeNbake
Those articles you mentioned are actually pretty good. But as far as I can remember, those are few and far between. The other articles are always about: Lose X weight in X days, ride faster in X days, make your bike look like new, "horizontally stiff, yet vertically compliant" bike reviews(ads). If you've read them once, you've read them all. The UK bike mags are better IMO.
You hit it right on the head. The "pretty good" articles are few and far between. It's always about going longer, stronger, faster, etc, issue after issue. I saw one "article" about touring and it was less than half a page and was of absolutely no use.
So the only place I look at Bicycling is at the library and after going through an issue, my reaction is always: I'm glad I didn't waste money on this thing.