Has Anyone Seen the "New" Bicycling Magazine?
08-17-17, 11:36 AM
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With everything you want available on the internet these days why would anyone subscribe to an actual paper magazine anymore?
08-19-17, 03:20 PM
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I love reading magazines. Our household currently subscribes to well over a dozen, of various interests (gardening, hunting/outdoors, literary, and of course fitness stuff). Plus we get a few weekly papers as well.
The only bike mag I currently get is Adventure Cyclist. Every now and again I'll buy Bicycling at the grocery store... maybe three times a year.
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Has anyone seen the current issue of Bicycling? What a load of s....! Half of it is devoted to their new book. The other half sings the praises of Electric bicycles! What?? I canceled that rag really quick. How does everyone else feel about the "new" Bicycling magazine? 
Similarly, their nutritional info is so laughably anti-science and anti-ag that I don't want to support them with my hard-earned $$.
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08-28-17, 03:11 PM
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it's alright. Learned about pancakes and bacon in a pouch. Not fond of yowza and wowza on the cover. People tend to cry while riding their bikes in the articles, that's sort of disconcerting. Lots of lingo within that i'll be sure to never use.
But i enjoy getting it in the mail and ogling the pretty bikes. There is useful information in there. Last month there was a cool article about a woman bike racer that biked across the country. Yeah, i'll renew.
But i enjoy getting it in the mail and ogling the pretty bikes. There is useful information in there. Last month there was a cool article about a woman bike racer that biked across the country. Yeah, i'll renew.
08-28-17, 04:04 PM
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I'm too cool for Bicycling Magazine.
I dropped Lance Armstrong on a double century even though I gave him a two hour head start.
I finished the double century in three hours. Without breaking a sweat. In the mojave desert. Without hydrating. Naked. With Kate Upton waving me down in her Maserati.
Pfft. Bicycling Magazine.
I dropped Lance Armstrong on a double century even though I gave him a two hour head start.
I finished the double century in three hours. Without breaking a sweat. In the mojave desert. Without hydrating. Naked. With Kate Upton waving me down in her Maserati.
Pfft. Bicycling Magazine.
08-28-17, 04:50 PM
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I actually like flipping through it. There are a few interesting things from time to time. I agree that perhaps they need to find some new things to write about and perhaps more in depth.
08-29-17, 11:41 PM
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I have all the Bicycling magazines from the late 1990s out in my garage. They're very interesting to leaf through, and have great information. I've looked through some recent ones, and am not interested - a lot of the information is rehashed from old issues (what to eat, how to lose pounds, bike adjustment, riding positions, commuting tactics, riding when elderly, yadayada) and the new stuff is fluff. So I'll just keep my old ones.
My favorite mag from the olden days was "Spinning - Bicycle Racing Illustrated". I have no idea whether that exists now.
My favorite mag from the olden days was "Spinning - Bicycle Racing Illustrated". I have no idea whether that exists now.
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At a subscription rate where the effective cost is $1 an issue delivered to my door, I find Bicycling fun to leaf through. Like any magazine, not everything in it is interesting, memorable or useful. But enough of it is that I usually get my $1 worth and a little more. I'm relatively new to cycling at an avid level, so maybe if there is re-hashed content it isn't visible to me...YMMV of course...
08-30-17, 08:18 PM
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old bicycling magazines are fun to look through, not really interested nowadays. Print really is dead.
I was never a fan of Bicycling. I used to really like Bike World, but it went away decades ago.
I feel like e-bikes might not be a good choice of emphasis, but I understand why they gave up on us.
I was never a fan of Bicycling. I used to really like Bike World, but it went away decades ago.
I feel like e-bikes might not be a good choice of emphasis, but I understand why they gave up on us.
08-31-17, 08:24 AM
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The e-bikes thing is a 1-issue special coverage deal. They even printed the back 10-12 pages of the magazine upside down so you can read starting from either end.
08-31-17, 09:30 AM
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Yup. Everything you need or want available on the internets...phone, desktop, laptop, tablet.
No reason for magazines anymore these days. Soon as the internets grew big enough with news articles etc. I cancelled my subscriptions to any all newspapers which roughly in about 1995.
No reason for magazines anymore these days. Soon as the internets grew big enough with news articles etc. I cancelled my subscriptions to any all newspapers which roughly in about 1995.
08-31-17, 12:13 PM
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When my sons were younger, we subscribed to more than a dozen magazines - Time, The Week, Science News, Runner's World, Automobile, etc. I enjoyed them, but also wanted easy-to-access, high quality reading material at hand. It was common for them to pick up a magazine and page through it when watching TV. As they went off to college, we let the subscriptions lapse. They've kept the habit of browsing current events and science, so I guess the gambit worked.
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09-01-17, 10:58 AM
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AND acidfast7 wins the thread!
09-01-17, 01:18 PM
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At a dollar an issue I couldn't resist. It may not be what it used to be but it's still something. It's perfect for the bathroom and I don't mean as people paper but to look through. I don't have a smart phone and I don't own a computer ( I'm at work now using theirs ) though I DO borrow my wife's computer to watch bike racing on NBC Sports Gold. When the internet goes down I have hard copies of entertainment. 1995 REALLY? I bought my first computer in 2005.
09-01-17, 07:38 PM
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Hmmm, no...I thought I did a cheap buy on that as part of an entry fee. I wonder what happened there? Guess I'll have to dig out my receipts.
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I stopped reading when I read a cervelo r5 article which said something like, 'it's not a race bike, but it's nice that you could race on it if you wanted to' the same day somebody rode it to a stage win in the TDF.
