Cycling Plus

[martint235]

I've actually just got back into Cycle Sport. It got a bit boring for a couple of years so I only used to buy the editions around the grand tours. They seem to have got it back on track now though.

I also get Cycle Active occasionally as it seems targetted at my kind of riding

 

[thelawnet]

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.

Correct, I get 'Time Magazine' for 56p/issue, it costs about £3 in the shops, the reality is that they are happy to give these magazines away, to the right people, because the magazine is really just a vehicle for advertising.

Any magazine subscription charging anything close to cover price is a rip-off....

 

[martint235]

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.

That's Cycle Active unless they publish the same letters.

 

[Norm]

That's Cycle Active unless they publish the same letters.

Oops.. yes, it is.