Anyone Subscribe to Cycling Weekly?

[Steve Austin]

Just wondered what day they deliver it to you?

Free Crud Roadracer mudguards if you subscribe this month!

 

[resal1]

Had a subscription for many, many years. Have got a loft full of bound copies. Sadly, this year I let my subscription lapse. Nothing to do with not wanting a cycling magazine and certainly not a cost issue. I just didn't like what was written or the way it was written. I felt worse after reading it.

It was like vacuuming a once, super, car that was now a rusting wreck. It was usually delivered on the Thursday. I knew things were bad and I needed to take action, when I wasn't opening it until Sunday night. I had moved it to part of the rituals of contemplating and preparing for, the joys of the working week, ahead.

 

[ColinJ]

I do. I nearly always get it on Thursdays but this week it was a day late, which didn't really surprise me all things considered!

 

[Crankarm]

I've never subscribed but flicked through it in Sainsburys when I remember. It has gone down hill a lot recently. I wouldn't pay for it certainly not when it endorses cyclists using blue lights (Nov and Dec.).

 

[harry dunn]

Used to be a regular reader , once upon a time .Now the new style format does nothing for me . The articles seem to echoe stuff from other mags ie. C PLUS. Occasionally pick up a copy in ASDA read the classifieds & then put it back.

 

[Smokin Joe]

I cancelled my regular order a few months ago. There was little of interest in it anymore, just endlessly recycled articles on nutrition and diet and reports of the heroic deeds of staffers riding sportives.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

No, a bit too race oriented for me.

 

[mangaman]

Had a subscription for many, many years. Have got a loft full of bound copies. Sadly, this year I let my subscription lapse. Nothing to do with not wanting a cycling magazine and certainly not a cost issue. I just didn't like what was written or the way it was written. I felt worse after reading it.

It was like vacuuming a once, super, car that was now a rusting wreck. It was usually delivered on the Thursday. I knew things were bad and I needed to take action, when I wasn't opening it until Sunday night. I had moved it to part of the rituals of contemplating and preparing for, the joys of the working week, ahead.

+1 for me.

I subscribed for years - as well as to procycling and cyclesport.

CW became increasingly irritating I found, and the others turned into Hello / Heat style mags, where Ivan Basso showed you round his lovely Tuscan Villa while the interviewer pussyfooted around any mention of drugs.

Of course when someone was caught doping their high horses couldn't have been higher.

Haven't read a cycling mag for about 2 years now I guess

 

[RATCHET]

Have also given up reading CW sorry Spotiv Weekly. Whats on seems to have vanished.Minimal coverage of Natoinal Cyclo cross championships

 

[Keith Oates]

Slightly OT, but has anyone signed up for the the online versions and if so are they OK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[RATCHET]

Online version not bad. You can pick choose the bits that interest you

 

[Keith Oates]

Thanks, maybe I'll give it a try!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[greenmark]

Keith - do you mean the website or the online magazine subscriptions through www.zinio.com ?

The website does not include the entire contents of the print version

The Zinio subscription lets you download the entire magazine and view it on its special reader - a bit like viewing a pdf file. I've tried it with a different publication (Bicycle Times) and have had problems with the reader - sometimes the display goes blank when I zoom in and the thing is illegible.

The other thing about the entire magazine display is that you can't just choose what to click on - you have to flip through the pages as if it were an actual magazine (adverts and all).

 

[Happiness Stan]

Yeah, I buy it for the 'hilarious' Helms catoons alone!!!

 

[Keith Oates]

Thanks for the info Greenmark, I'll do some more checking before I take the plunge and subscribe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!