what makes a good magazine?

[MartyE]

Must be winter, its sleeting 27 degrees and I'm
starting threads.

What makes a good bike magazine in your opinion?
Reviews of top of the line racing bikes or more
real world bikes (like asphalt vs cycling plus)?
All racing news or just a smattering?
Historical stories and classic components?
repair/maintenance features?

curious minds wanna know (me).
marty

[Ken Robb]

It should hold at least 7 rounds. :beer:

[weisan]

Well-researched information.

[pale scotsman]

I'd like articles more than a page long. No inserts or renewal crap to fall or tear out, and a few full page adverts smattered throughout with small adverts in the back. It seems today you only get a snippet of info and nothing in-depth or well researched as weisan pal pointed out.

How about something you can sit down to read and not be finished with it before you've got off the pot.

Combine the best of cycling plus, riv reader, vbq, and some clever editorial satire and I think that would be a good rag.

[Bill Bove]

Pretty girls riding bikes in skimpy outfits:banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:

[manet]

http://www.2xtreme.net/~kbickel/music/Bnlmusic.jpg

[dirtdigger88]

http://www.2xtreme.net/~kbickel/music/Bnlmusic.jpg


Easy Tiger

http://www.terry-jones.net/NEKKED!.jpg

Jason

[manet]

http://www.gracklenews.com/content/0404/images/justin.jpg

[dirtdigger88]

http://www.gracklenews.com/content/0404/images/justin.jpg


Easy Tiger (http://www.omsex.com/peta/nakedpeta010tn.jpg)

Jason

[dirtdigger88]

http://www.gracklenews.com/content/0404/images/justin.jpg

manet-

if you wait by that phone too long you will end up with these

http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/404951/2/istockphoto_404951_blue_balls.jpg

Jason

[manet]

http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/367793/2/Two_red_christmas_ball.jpg

[manet]

Historical stories and classic components!


this i like

[bluesea]

It should not do a cover feature of Jan Ulrich on more than 1 issue a year--if that many.




P.S. My 220ST holds 8, thank you. :beer:

[george]

I'm more of a pictures guy, yeah I'll read a few of the articles but a picture is worth a thousand words. And when you have a bicycle magazine such as CYCLE SPORT with dozens of high gloss high defintion colors that's what I look at first...

[taz-t]

Pretty girls riding bikes in skimpy outfits:banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:

You mean like this?:


Taz in ATL
(answering the question "Does Tim Curry race cross?")

[JohnS]

It should hold at least 7 rounds. :beer:
Exactly!

[bulliedawg]

Lots of photos of shaved legs slathered in baby oil accompanied by articles with titles like, "Twenty-seven reasons why chicks dig thighs of steel," and, "Thirteen ways to make your thighs look like they're thighs of steel," and stuff like that.

[loctite]

NO MAIL ORDER ADDS, magazines are nothing but ads now a days. Oh, and no more than one LA story a year, unless its when he gets caught! :D