Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > Bike Magazines

[hipshaker]

In my quest for info as I'm a bit new to all this I've bought a few different mags in the last couple of months. I wondered what peoples preferences were and why ....... TWO .... Bike ...... Superbike ...... MCN ...... etc etc?

[Loz]

Bike is the one for me. Seems to be written by people who know how to ride and write! The other mags just seem to irritate me (esp Fast Bikes). Haven't read MCN in years ... why is that?

NB I am not affiliated with any magazines, motoring or otherwise.

[hipshaker]

Yes .... I quite like the issues of Bike I've read ... also TWO. Ended up somehow getting Superbike by mistake. What an awful mag that is!

[Michael J]

I always read BIKE cos it's well written and intelligent unlike some of the mags on the market. For me, T.W.O. RIDE and Performance Bikes would be best of the rest.

[rockhopper]

I get Bike every month cos Lynn got me a subscription for my birthday. I buy Ride every month myself. PB is better than it used to be, Superbike is just rubbish but had some good free stuff this month!

I dont buy any of the others.

[ali]

I read PB for about 18 years, during which time it went from the dullest, to the funniest, to the worst bike mag on the planet.

At it's peak (the Steve Burns Spondon Turbo era ) it was funny as ...... Unfortunately it followed FB down the lads mag on two wheels route and now barely scrapes in above MCN.

Ride's definitely the best of the bunch at the mo (imho), but it's a bit close to CAR mag for my liking, and tends to over do it on the ".05kg lighter and 1.0bhp more powerful" front. That's the problem with owning a duke, everything else looks s%&t by comparison!

I've given up on bike mags, spending my time reading Twist of the Wrist, dyno charts, fork re-valving FAQs and the obligatory parts manuals.

Ali

[antonye]

No questions - Motorcycle Racer.

If you've never seen it you're really missing out.

Other than that I'll pickup a copy of something that either looks interesting or has a decent freebie. I might read Bike occasionally - I used to subscribe - but I've kind of lost interest. I'll read Classic Motorcycle & Mechanics (or whatever it is that Mr Murray writes for) as his articles are usually quite funny.

[kwikbitch]

I like biketoo...and Ride coz it's not limited to race bikes and bhp!:P (oh and also less women with larger chest's than me!)

[Monty]

Racer, Classic Racer, and Bike-the rest are generally crap.

John

[springer]

I gave up reading bike mags a while ago; when I realized that they were all biased. Maybe I’m just am old cynic but one only has to look at the amount of advertising space the jap4 spend between the covers to see why they get the extra %.
Ps. I used to work for a very large publishing house.
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