Call me tight but!!

[sadjack]

I don't think it will kill the industry to review cheaper kit. After all people can only buy what they can afford.

I would expect a mag aimed at racing to push top dollar gear. A mag supposed to reflect general cycling should have, in my view, more general reviews including cheaper kit. There does not seem to be a mag that does this.

But should there be room for both areas?

 

[Norm]

I subscribe to cycling+ and have for a while now been considering cancelling. My last issue is under the coffee table looking sorry and neglected

There is a place for expensive kit, and there is a place for value for money. But I am finding more and more that flicking through cycling+ and other mags for that matter, that the content does not reflect my outlook.

I would love to find a mag that is a bit more "general" in its outlook.

I'd suggest Cycling Active but I'm a bit unsure because the last issue was all about £1200 bikes and £200 helmets.

I'm hoping that's an aberration, though, as they are more usually looking at the £500 bikes.

 

[Boragaincyclist]

Indeed. This is my beef with them too, and I think we may have agreed on this very point on another thread somewhere.
For myself, I have no desire whatever to own a bling road bike or one of the modern breed of frankly fugly MTBs, which look to me like motocross bikes without the engine. Give me an ancient 531 road bike or tourer, or an old steel MTB frame with road tyres and drop bars on it, and I'm happy. If they're a bit scruffy, so much the better. Character and individuality beat bling hands down, in my book.
I suspect I'm not the target market for C+.

As an avid off road motorbike enthusiast, I love the look of the modern style MTBs. Back in the late 90s/early 2000s as a teenager I always had second hand rigid MTBs with the old fashioned inverted "U" shaped front fork which I hated the look of and pined after the new fangled MTBs that looked like motorbikes.

I am surprised how someone can find them "fugly". Also, congratulations, your post got me to register to this website just to reply to it

 

[Jody]

and quite an epic thread revivial you managed.

I am surprised how someone can find them "fugly". Also, congratulations, your post got me to register to this website just to reply to it

Your'e right that modern MTB's are far from Fugly.