I think £3+ is too much too spend on something which is predominately full of adverts.
My local market has a stall which sells magazines which are one or more months old for 60p each or 3 for £1.50.
A good read can be had for £1.50.

Bikesport News on subscription (for club race coverage and classifieds)

Motorcycle Racer for the photography, mostly, but all around good mag.

MCN for the up-to-date (albeit somewaht marginal) race reports.

Not that I am into motorcycle racing, or anything...;)

Subscription to BIKE, great mag and really useful "Really Useful Section" too! :P I do like the product reviews too, and I think BIKE has the best reviews.

My girl usually buys TWO mag, so Itend to give that a good flick through when I'm on the throne.

MCN when my hands are too clean.

Felix - please tell us more about Bikesport News, there is a big hole in the sports press for club & national racing. This seems like it might be the mag I need.

Thanks
Steve

I subscribe to MSL and occasionally buy, Bike, TWO or Ride if I want to see the ads. :P

I buy all of them except Fast bikes which is plain rubbish and hard to read.....................oh yes and MCN, also have a subscription to classic bike.

Really think it depends on who's the editor of the respective Mag at the time as some have gone from brill to cack and back over the years.

i grew up with bike mag under the leadership of mark williams (excuse 1 fingered typing as wife is snuggled up under 1 arm after bbq)

bike mag in the early days was far more radical than say fast bikes under colin schiller.

bike is prob current fav follwed by pb.

bike mag articles inspired me to many escapades over the years, from the bol d'or to riding thru yugo, greece and onto africa. it was these articles that made me go 'wow' gotta do this.

i think bike mag peaked under willis and macdairmid in the 80's before declining b4 the resurgence to its curent peak.

as for journalism, i did a 8 page article on a trip to the bol on an st4s in northern biker and it promptly went bust so please don't take any notice of a 1 fingered drunk like moi:lol::lol:

as 4 upsetting advertisers i know of a few funny stories where people have have pulled advertising, or peeps have got the boot 4 upsetting the status quo by calling a **** a ****.
overall as a good alround read with a bit of everything at present it's bike mag for me, sorry to follow the herd, but tim thompson u can send the cheque to the usual address at fawlty towers:lol:

I was just looking at a few of the mags I've bought in the last few months. Bike and TWO seem to be the best to me.

If you ever wondered what happened to Mark Williams...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0...243552,00.html

Quote: "Behind the Crime: Love or Money, a documentary about Mark Williams and white collar crime, is on Channel 4 on July 8."


[Edited on 7-7-2004 by antonye]

I read RIDE, but some of their test, you know they get 'paid' to say certain things, so pointless really..

I read BIKE too sometimes, that's good, and I like T.W.O also, perhaps that's best for both genders too... needless to say I can't stand the ones that seem to be full of half naked girls, and swearing all the time.. even their news pages have nothing interesting to say, just pants...