Great question. Bicycle Guide used to be like that in the 80s and Bicycling magazine was still decent. There was a quarterly magazine a couple of years ago that was exactly what you are looking for called Ashphalt and it was published by Patrick Brady, who used to be at Bicycle Guide. Alas, after barely two years it went away....with my subsciption money. Still, it was a very high quality publication in content and writing.
Seems to me there is a hole in the marketplace right now for something similar.

In the meantime, even though I'm not a racer I still like Road Bike Action and the Brit publication Cycling Plus.