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From: reid@Glacier.ARPA (Brian Reid)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: "Bicycle Guide" better than "Bicycling"
Message-ID: <11893@Glacier.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 12:08:16 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 17 12:08:16 1985
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Reply-To: reid@Glacier.UUCP (Brian Reid)
Organization: Stanford University, Computer Systems Lab
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For many years "Bicycling!" magazine was it. They dropped the exclamation
point from their name a few years ago. Recently everybody who made the 
magazine any good quit.

About a year ago the ex-"Bicycling" staff started a new magazine, based
in the same city (Allentown, Pa). This magazine is "Bicycle Guide", and I
have subscribed to it since day 1. The first few issues were a little weak;
they hadn't gotten many advertisers yet.

But this time around I let my subscription to "Bicycling" lapse. "Bicycle 
Guide" is now categorically better. They, too, may suffer the pangs of middle
age that has killed many a magazine, but at the moment they are hot.
Good technical information (not spun off into an expensive quarterly
like the other leading brand), good reviews (when was the last time you
saw "Bicycling" say anything negative about a product whose manufacturer
bought advertising space in their magazine), good photos, good columns,
etc.

One more thing: "Bicycling" magazine is published by Rodale Press, the large
health company that also publishes "Prevention" and "Organic gardening",
sells books, seeds, and vitamins, etc. "Bicycle guide" is published by its
editors--a classic startup.

Subscriptions are $14.90 per year, write to PO Box 3713, Escondido CA 92025.
Go for it!
-- 
	Brian Reid	decwrl!glacier!reid
	Stanford	reid@SU-Glacier.ARPA


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