Bicycle Quarterly
03-09-11 | 08:27 PM
#26
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From: Kentucky
I might have to subscribe to this mag.
I used to subscribe to Bicycling, but got fed up with "three things to do to climb better", all Tour de France all the time, and the Beavis and Butthead illustrations.
Then I subscribed to Bicycle Times, which I liked at first, but it seems like they changed to writing about nothing but the Tour de France, and a few of the Beavis and Butthead illustrations even started creeping in, so I let the subscription expire. (They grew up to be another Bicycling, in other words!)
I've been looking for a bicycle magazine that catered to my interests.
My kind of cycling is taking medium-long rides in the country, and using the bike for actual useful errands. I've been looking for a magazine that wrote about that - real people using real bikes for simple enjoyment. I also like retro bikes - bar-end and downtube shifters, no carbon fiber, fenders and lights, and chrome frame pumps that don't have CO-2 cylinders inside. Maybe this is the one.
I used to subscribe to Bicycling, but got fed up with "three things to do to climb better", all Tour de France all the time, and the Beavis and Butthead illustrations.
Then I subscribed to Bicycle Times, which I liked at first, but it seems like they changed to writing about nothing but the Tour de France, and a few of the Beavis and Butthead illustrations even started creeping in, so I let the subscription expire. (They grew up to be another Bicycling, in other words!)
I've been looking for a bicycle magazine that catered to my interests.
My kind of cycling is taking medium-long rides in the country, and using the bike for actual useful errands. I've been looking for a magazine that wrote about that - real people using real bikes for simple enjoyment. I also like retro bikes - bar-end and downtube shifters, no carbon fiber, fenders and lights, and chrome frame pumps that don't have CO-2 cylinders inside. Maybe this is the one.
