Bicycling magazine $5 per year up to four years

[weisan]

I know to some of my pals, this is trash, please kindly proceed to our checkout counter, we will process you quickly through the line. :)

Speaking to the rest of my pals...today only.

Bicycling Magazine $4.99/year (up to 4yrs) with code SLICKDEALS
http://www.discountmags.com/product/5706/bicycling?c=6JCQrjZKEeOiAaJZfPawKg0_aNXk3_CSP_0_0&sdtid=6321124&a=slickdeals

[Nags&Ducs]

I know to some of my pals, this is trash, please kindly proceed to our checkout counter, we will process you quickly through the line. :)

Speaking to the rest of my pals...today only.

Bicycling Magazine $4.99/year (up to 4yrs) with code SLICKDEALS
http://www.discountmags.com/product/5706/bicycling?c=6JCQrjZKEeOiAaJZfPawKg0_aNXk3_CSP_0_0&sdtid=6321124&a=slickdeals

Thanks for the hook up! Ordered 4 years.

[Mikej]

Not sure if its even worth it. Last issue I read had a 10 glove "shoot-out" and none of them were bad, according to Zap, or whomever had some pvc tubes in his ears and nostrils.

[Nags&Ducs]

Not sure if its even worth it. Last issue I read had a 10 glove "shoot-out" and none of them were bad, according to Zap, or whomever had some pvc tubes in his ears and nostrils.

Zap does Roadbike Action not Bicycling. Regardless, they are both in the same boat ITO quality of the mag. Ehh, maybe Bicycling is a tad nicer in layout and photography. Content is about equal IMHO.

[FlashUNC]

All you really need is a year's subscription. Then you've got every article they've ever written.

All Products Made Are Awesome
10 Ways to Ride That First Century
How To Change a Tube from an Expert Mechanic
Pedals...Why?

And my personal favorite:
5 Ways You Can Pedal Uphill That Magically Make It All Easier

[saab2000]

Magazine subscriptions are nothing more than me paying for advertising and paying to have my private information sold off.

I once ordered subscriptions to several to help a friend's daughter with a fund raiser. The junk mail in my mail box went up ten-fold. Never again.

Online or buy at the newsstand occasionally.

[dancinkozmo]

whats a magazine ?? is it like an ipad you can burn ?

[moose8]

Thanks - for $5 a year it's certainly a low risk proposition.

[josephr]

you get a free subscription with an IMBA membership.
Joe

[VA-Scooter]

Thanks for the info. My subscription ran out a few months ago & I was not going to bother with it but for 45 cents an issue I can't say no.

[R2D2]

Thanks for the info. My subscription ran out a few months ago & I was not going to bother with it but for 45 cents an issue I can't say no.

I agree... Cheap entertainment.

[buddybikes]

Bathroom material...

[4Rings6Stars]

Bathroom material...

It's not as soft as I would prefer, but works in a pinch...:butt:

[Scooper]

Somebody should resurrect Bicycle Guide. That's one mag I really miss.

[Bob Ross]

All you really need is a year's subscription. Then you've got every article they've ever written.

Several years ago the publisher of Bicycling Magazine spoke at our cycle club meeting, and I asked "why do you always have the same articles recurring throughout the calendar year?" She took offense at the insinuation, so I pressed further: "How many times in the past 12 months has your front cover said Get Fit Fast?"

Since it's a cycling rag, I was not surprised to see her then backpedal...

[BumbleBeeDave]

"1001 Greatest tips for (insert object here)"

:)

BBD

[redir]

Dirt Rag is a good magazine and I have been getting it for years.

[Tony T]

Yes, print is dying, but until it breaths it's last breath.
What rags do you like
I still read Velonews (er,... Velo) and Cycle Sports

[summilux]

Oh, don't be so hard on Bicycling. That magazine puts a lot of people onto bikes and keeps them there. While I haven't bought an issue in a long, long time, I did my first century based on a training plan published there.

Bicycling is like training wheels.

[Tony]

I know to some of my pals, this is trash, please kindly proceed to our checkout counter, we will process you quickly through the line. :)

Speaking to the rest of my pals...today only.

Bicycling Magazine $4.99/year (up to 4yrs) with code SLICKDEALS
http://www.discountmags.com/product/5706/bicycling?c=6JCQrjZKEeOiAaJZfPawKg0_aNXk3_CSP_0_0&sdtid=6321124&a=slickdeals

Thanks for the heads up! I feel what folks are saying about the mag, its not what it was back in the early nineties. However, for this price I'm in, cheap entertainment.

[roydyates]

My experience is that if you just wait awhile, a Bicycling magazine will start to arrive in the mail for free.

[2wheelwill]

Thanks for the heads-up...just signed up for 4 years. Bummer that after you check out it tells you the first magazine won't arrive till late Dec or early Jan. Talk about snail mail...

Re Bicycling's content, it's definitely light reading (and often pretty lame) but when i was 15 i read every word on every page over and over to feed my new cycling addiction. It's geared toward the new rider and I think that's an important niche to fill.

Thanks again for posting!

[redir]

My experience is that if you just wait awhile, a Bicycling magazine will start to arrive in the mail for free.

That happened to me with Outside, or was it Outdoor, magazine. I traced it back to a Nashbar purchase.

It was not all that bad but I just don't remember ever wanting it and actually they were not too bad to deal with when it ened after a year.

[vqdriver]

Oh, don't be so hard on Bicycling. That magazine puts a lot of people onto bikes and keeps them there. While I haven't bought an issue in a long, long time, I did my first century based on a training plan published there.

Bicycling is like training wheels.

kinda with you on this. it serves an audience which may or may not overlap here. but there's lot of basic info in it that we all wish newbs knew.

[sworcester]

"1001 Greatest tips for (insert object here)"

:)

BBD

I kind of like the phrase exactly that way.

[saab2000]

Yes, print is dying, but until it breaths it's last breath.
What rags do you like
I still read Velonews (er,... Velo) and Cycle Sports

The only one worth reading is Rouleur, a Rapha publication. It is expensive and almost like a book in nature, but it's an excellent read usually.

[Hawker]

Somebody should resurrect Bicycle Guide. That's one mag I really miss.

Plus one. The best.

[witcombusa]

If they paid me $5 a year I wouldn't read it...

[FlashUNC]

The only one worth reading is Rouleur, a Rapha publication. It is expensive and almost like a book in nature, but it's an excellent read usually.

Rouleur really is a highlight whenever it shows up on my doorstep. And one I keep around on the bookshelf.

[Tony T]

My experience is that if you just wait awhile, a Bicycling magazine will start to arrive in the mail for free.

At 45c an issue (the cost of a postage stamp), close enough :)
Send as Christmas gifts :):)

[Tony T]

The only one worth reading is Rouleur, a Rapha publication. It is expensive and almost like a book in nature, but it's an excellent read usually.

Never read it, I'll give it a look.
edit: Wow! $20/issue!

[FlashUNC]

Never read it, I'll give it a look.
edit: Wow! $20/issue!

Easily worth it.

[rePhil]

Weisan,

Thank you. I gave up on it many years ago, but at that price why not?

[biker72]

Thank you very much Weisan.
Great deal!!!!

[Shortsocks]

All you really need is a year's subscription. Then you've got every article they've ever written.

All Products Made Are Awesome
10 Ways to Ride That First Century
How To Change a Tube from an Expert Mechanic
Pedals...Why?

And my personal favorite:
5 Ways You Can Pedal Uphill That Magically Make It All Easier


Said very well. It's incredibly repetitive, except for the rare Yens Voigt written article or an interesting philosophy of cycling Piece it's pretty much the same stuff. I bought years worth of subscriptions from local kids selling magazines...it was this or some other crap. It's much better than the other crap.:banana:

Also, every time I read it, it reminds me of why my bike sucks and how everyone else is enjoying where they ride other than me. Dallas sucks. :mad:

[mtb_frk]

I like cyclocross magazine, mountain flyer and What MTB. I am not in Colorado or England but they both seem to be pretty good reads. What MTB, when they do reviews, they review many options not just one or two.

[rnhood]

"Bicycling" magazine isn't great, but it is not the worst either. Some articles are decent and I like Bill Strickland and P. Flax, and as mentioned above there are some good pictures. Advertisements.....well they all have them. I look past this and focus on the content that interests me, then toss the magazine. To me its easily worth $5 per year. An easy decision.

[pakora]

That happened to me with Outside, or was it Outdoor, magazine. I traced it back to a Nashbar purchase.

It was not all that bad but I just don't remember ever wanting it and actually they were not too bad to deal with when it ened after a year.

That happened to me a few years ago and I asked them to cancel it. It turned out they refunded you for remaining issues even though you got it basically because you didn't read the fine print of their user agreement. I took that $10 to not throw it in the recycling box every month with the Nashbar catalog (which you can also ask them not to send you).

[mike p]

Same with Outside magazine. I think I've gotten a couple years of free issues of both Outside and Bicycling!

Mike

My experience is that if you just wait awhile, a Bicycling magazine will start to arrive in the mail for free.

[GregL]

The only one worth reading is Rouleur, a Rapha publication. It is expensive and almost like a book in nature, but it's an excellent read usually.
I've always been partial to Ride Cycling Review. Ridiculously expensive at Barnes and Noble (and always 3 months late due to the slow boat from Australia). However, the e-zine version on Zinio is very reasonably priced and arrives at my iPad the same time as it is published in Oz. Now if we could just get Tour (http://www.tour-magazin.de/)magazine published in English!

- Greg

[Matthew]

Can't beat it for that price. A while back they had a cool article on custom ti bikes and featured Spectrum and Baum and a couple others. That alone makes it worth $5 a year.

[fuzzalow]

That's a good deal for a periodical.

The content is not really targeted to the level of expertise found with the members of this forum but supporting the livelihood of people that provide content is never a bad thing.

I'll be somewhat of a hypocrite and see if I can get it for free through Zinio via my public library - not because I don't want to pay (Ha! $5/year...hey big spender!) but because I don't want the clutter.

[vqdriver]

fwiw, is this offer good on any other of their publications? i tried it on a couple kids mags and it didn't apply.

[beeatnik]

There are a few great articles every year. In depth pieces or impressive investigative journalism. The Stava article in one the last issues was New Yorker long and thorough.

[enr1co]

Thanks for the discount code- one of the last bike rags I pick up when killing time at B&N but for $5 bucks a year, tough to beat!

[JWDR]

$20 for 4 years was good but the 3 years of Wired for $15 I couldn't pass up.

[wc1934]

Dang, and I just paid 10 bucks for a years subscription -- as others have said, not the greatest, but for a dollar an issue I gave it another try.

[oldpotatoe]

Never read it, I'll give it a look.
edit: Wow! $20/issue!

6 issues per year..not the typical 'best carbon bike under $2000' crappola.


Tremendous photography, great stories(the one about Berzin is unforgettable), the article about Ugo DeRosa was more about being 'Italian', than about bicycles.

I sell 'em and have a subscription also.

[Repack Rider]

I used to be on the Bicycling masthead as West Coast Editor, until they fired me in 1990.

What I found out in ten years or so of writing for every cycling publication in the US and a few in other countries is that the experience doesn't change that much, even if the equipment does. I don't write about equipment, and I found that I was hitting all the same themes on about a three year cycle.

There truly isn't that much to write about riding a bike, especially after your 100th article.

If you are into the newest gadgets, Bicycling is for you.

[josephr]

$20 for 4 years was good but the 3 years of Wired for $15 I couldn't pass up.

nice avatar!

[josephr]

I used to be on the Bicycling masthead as West Coast Editor, until they fired me in 1990.

What I found out in ten years or so of writing for every cycling publication in the US and a few in other countries is that the experience doesn't change that much, even if the equipment does. I don't write about equipment, and I found that I was hitting all the same themes on about a three year cycle.

There truly isn't that much to write about riding a bike, especially after your 100th article.

If you are into the newest gadgets, Bicycling is for you.

There is certainly the bikeporn factor...I can see how you'd get bored with the material and if I didn't get a free subscription for being an IMBA member, I wouldn't pay for it as it does get materially repetitive. Still, its a good quick read on a Sunday evening...lately they've been doing a series of articles about short rides in larger cities---more scenic/casual touring half-day type routes. Thats sort of been interesting though.
Joe

[kbrown]

I wish Bike Magazine was $20 for 4 years.

[cfox]

6 issues per year..not the typical 'best carbon bike under $2000' crappola.


Tremendous photography, great stories(the one about Berzin is unforgettable), the article about Ugo DeRosa was more about being 'Italian', than about bicycles.

I sell 'em and have a subscription also.

I loved that Berzin story; it was haunting and reminded me that Italy isn't just babes riding Vespas in the sun. Rouleur is tops

[SpokeValley]

Oh, don't be so hard on Bicycling. That magazine puts a lot of people onto bikes and keeps them there. While I haven't bought an issue in a long, long time, I did my first century based on a training plan published there.

Bicycling is like training wheels.

I agree and I send gift subscriptions to friends and family who are noobees.

There isn't much meat on them bones for me, but there are occasional great articles and the pix and layout are good. Jens writes a column that's good. I read every issue, usually during lunch the day it arrives.

[oldpotatoe]

I loved that Berzin story; it was haunting and reminded me that Italy isn't just babes riding Vespas in the sun. Rouleur is tops

Did you notice they never mentioned his name in the entire article?

[Hawker]

Thanks OP, I signed up for two years. Like most others here, the mag is generally a disappointment unless you are a newby. However, there are occasional long feature articles that are very good. I either give in and buy the issue or read them while standing. :) None the less...this was a great deal.

[Tony T]

6 issues per year..not the typical 'best carbon bike under $2000' crappola.


Tremendous photography, great stories(the one about Berzin is unforgettable), the article about Ugo DeRosa was more about being 'Italian', than about bicycles.

I sell 'em and have a subscription also.

I see that I can get an individual issue, so I'll give issue #41 a read.

[Elefantino]

I still read Velonews (er,... Velo)
Bless you, my son.

[AgilisMerlin]

Any cycling magazine is ok wit' me :banana:

although, I am partial to books (cycling and non)