Originally Posted by
Lazyass
In the 90's during my drinking days I has subscriptions to DR and all the others. Every night I would sit on my couch, fire up my home stereo like everyone had, drink a 6 pack and just read the magazines. In the early 2000's when I moved I had boxes of at least 100 mountain bike magazines and I threw them all away. I regret that now.
Bike was actually my favorite.
Sad to see DR go -- quirky, but always entertaining. I bought a lot of issues of DR over the years, but
Bike was always my favourite too, along with
Singletrack (UK).
Bike has now been reduced to a quarterly under its new owners, and the staff concentrates more on producing web content. Even the quarterly issues (I subscribe) are just a shadow of what
Bike once was, in terms of editorial content. Sad.
Fortunately, another quarterly --
Freehub -- has been improving and expanding. Brice Minnigh, formerly with
Bike and an excellent editor
and feature writer, is in charge. We'll see if it survives.