Cycling Plus

[col]

I gave up on it a while ago, too samey for me.

 

[Fab Foodie]

I personally suscribe to bothfind c+ and cycling active both good read, great in depth reviews on bikes and gear

Gave up C+ last year in favour of CA. I'm not renewing my CA sub which comes up this month.
CA is too bland, but at least seems to be trying to appeal to female cyclists. C+ is all sponsored-up as far as reviews go and is very skewed towards the £1000+ Sportive rider. As for reviews being in-depth ... Mmmm.

There again, there is the CTC mag which is duller than ditchwater.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Tried CC and CA and both were very poor reads. Quite a lot of money for something that can be scampered through in less than half an hour.

 

[indeterminate]

just looked on the BIKERADAR SITE AND ITS ONLY 21% off, misleading article

 

[col]

Thought Id get a mag this afternoon from town, I spent ages looking , and just walked out. They all just seem boring now. I so wanted something to read too. So got myself the ps3 F1 2011 instead

 

[Norm]

This month's "star letter" was a bizarre piece of writing about the thousands of cyclists a reader saw in Europe being less safe than they are in the UK, because they don't wear helmets of carry kids or do their make up whilst riding.

A strange set of assertions which should barely make an impact in the consciousness of anyone who looks beneath the thinnest of veneers and should be nowhere near the "star letter" billing that it got.

My subs are up this month, and I doubt I'll be renewing after that.

 

[TonyEnjoyD]

Just got my copy of C+ delivered... 11 pages of ads before I even got to the contents page.
On the cover the winner of the cycle of the year 2012 out of 25 bikes tested - started on page 48 and ended on page 83.
Over a quarter of the magazine on full road tests of bikes in excess of £1000 - to me that's the last straw and defo cancelling my subscription.

 

[Bluenite]

Just got my copy of C+ delivered... 11 pages of ads before I even got to the contents page.
On the cover the winner of the cycle of the year 2012 out of 25 bikes tested - started on page 48 and ended on page 83.
Over a quarter of the magazine on full road tests of bikes in excess of £1000 - to me that's the last straw and defo cancelling my subscription.

+1

 

[Noodley]

I gave up on cycling mags ages ago, all very dull and boring and repetitive; focused on selling stuff their advertisers give them to "review", then the rest is the adverts themselves. Very little by way of anything which interests me. And any actual journalism tends to be lazy and aimed at morons.

 

[Paulus]

I used to read Cycling Today until it went bust about 15 years ago, then swapped to C+. I am going to cancel my subscription as I now find the mag to repetitive.

 

[ianrauk]

Just got my copy of C+ delivered... 11 pages of ads before I even got to the contents page.
On the cover the winner of the cycle of the year 2012 out of 25 bikes tested - started on page 48 and ended on page 83.
Over a quarter of the magazine on full road tests of bikes in excess of £1000 - to me that's the last straw and defo cancelling my subscription.

Yet, this type of thing is very interesting to me....

 

[I like Skol]

Funny, a colleague and fellow cyclist went into Sainsburys a couple of weeks ago, picked up a cycling mag(not c+) to see what it was like, it seemed very chinky, he opened it and there was a copy of nuts inside which someone must ave been ogling on the sly (prob while the wife was shopping)

Tony

In a similar vein, My wife and I were in a branch of WHSmiths a few years ago and while she was looking at the girly stuff I wondered off to look at my 'other interest' magazines (car resto, 4x4, MTB etc). While I was engrossed in my section she wondered up to me and looked over my shoulder to find I was reading one of those 'male interest' type magazines like Nuts or similar. She went 'nuts' and gave me a belt while loudly exclaiming something like "what the hell are you reading?!?!"........

.......The poor bloke that looked a bit like me from behind didn't know what had hit him!!!! I didn't stop chuckling for days

 

[fossyant]

CW and C+ here - like looking at all the shiney kit....hmmmmm !

 

[rollinstok]

The sad fact is that with todays magazines, we are parting with our hard earned to buy advertisements.
Anyone with the internet really has no need for a cycling ( or any other ) mag.
I have a suspicion that any reviews in the mag are heavily biased towards those companies who spend most on advertising.

 

[Keith Oates]

I buy C+ whenever I'm in a place that sells it and find it great reading material which lasts me a long time, as I read everything inside. Many a night I wake up and find the light still on and a copy of C+ on top of the bed covers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!