RE: magazine reviews - 2

I still subscribe to Cycle World. When I started (1968) there was Cycle and Cycle World. I read them, and re-read them. I still remember the article in Cycle World on the Honda 750 where they disassembled the mighty 4, and laid out on the pieces on a sheet. Now THAT was a PROPER review.
Well, Cycle bit the dust - and a lot of that happened when restriction on distribution of the US Mags had developed. I don't know why, maybe it was because the AUD was buying $0.45 USD at the time.
With Zinio I have had Cycle World for about 4 or 5 years. It is hard to say. With the new publishing format the older versions have "dropped off" - something I thought would not happen. Oh well, my RS review is now "gone".
However, Cycle World is still a great publication, not the least due to Kevin Cameron and the occasional article by Phil Shilling.
On this forum, Richard230 really has his finger on the motorcycle world, and with his input, as well as the input of all of the other contributors, I probably get my "fix" of news, insight and opinions of Motorcycling world-wide.
For Oz, I regularly buy the AMCN which is in "dead trees" format and much easier to access in the gentleman's reading room at home.

I realize that my finger is rapidly slipping off the motorcycle world. When Motorcyclist magazine went from a monthly publication to a bimonthly and now (I believe) quarterly distribution, raised the price to $12 an issue, printed a large-format that wouldn't fit in my bookcase and neutered the articles about the technical aspects of the motorcycles they were reviewing and replaced that with lifestyle articles, I wrote to the co-editors and asked them to knock it off. But they didn't take my advice and have continued to publish articles that for the most part just don't interest me as much as the format that the original 1960's Cycle World and the 1970's Peterson Quarterly (which became Motorcyclist ) publications did.

What also irritates me is that they are numbering their issues, instead of providing a month when they were published. I just received another Cycle World magazine yesterday and it is identified as being "Issue No. 4". What is up with that? Number 4 of what?

Zitat von Aussie Import im Beitrag #16

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I still subscribe to Cycle World. When I started (1968) there was Cycle and Cycle World. I read them, and re-read them. I still remember the article in Cycle World on the Honda 750 where they disassembled the mighty 4, and laid out on the pieces on a sheet. Now THAT was a PROPER review.
Well, Cycle bit the dust - and a lot of that happened when restriction on distribution of the US Mags had developed. I don't know why, maybe it was because the AUD was buying $0.45 USD at the time.
With Zinio I have had Cycle World for about 4 or 5 years. It is hard to say. With the new publishing format the older versions have "dropped off" - something I thought would not happen. Oh well, my RS review is now "gone".
However, Cycle World is still a great publication, not the least due to Kevin Cameron and the occasional article by Phil Shilling.
On this forum, Richard230 really has his finger on the motorcycle world, and with his input, as well as the input of all of the other contributors, I probably get my "fix" of news, insight and opinions of Motorcycling world-wide.
For Oz, I regularly buy the AMCN which is in "dead trees" format and much easier to access in the gentleman's reading room at home.

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Zitat von Mr. 36654 im Beitrag #18

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Zitat von Aussie Import im Beitrag #16

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I still subscribe to Cycle World. When I started (1968) there was Cycle and Cycle World. I read them, and re-read them. I still remember the article in Cycle World on the Honda 750 where they disassembled the mighty 4, and laid out on the pieces on a sheet. Now THAT was a PROPER review.
Well, Cycle bit the dust - and a lot of that happened when restriction on distribution of the US Mags had developed. I don't know why, maybe it was because the AUD was buying $0.45 USD at the time.
With Zinio I have had Cycle World for about 4 or 5 years. It is hard to say. With the new publishing format the older versions have "dropped off" - something I thought would not happen. Oh well, my RS review is now "gone".
However, Cycle World is still a great publication, not the least due to Kevin Cameron and the occasional article by Phil Shilling.
On this forum, Richard230 really has his finger on the motorcycle world, and with his input, as well as the input of all of the other contributors, I probably get my "fix" of news, insight and opinions of Motorcycling world-wide.
For Oz, I regularly buy the AMCN which is in "dead trees" format and much easier to access in the gentleman's reading room at home.

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What! No mention of Cycle Guide?

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Zitat von Mr. 36654 im Beitrag #18

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[quote=Aussie Import|p5995].... What! No mention of Cycle Guide?

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