Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site varian.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!qantel!vlsvax1!zehntel!zinfandel!varian!fred From: fred@varian.UUCP (Fred Klink) Newsgroups: net.bicycle Subject: Re: bicycling magazines Message-ID: <370@varian.UUCP> Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 11:47:26 EDT Article-I.D.: varian.370 Posted: Thu Sep 19 11:47:26 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 28-Sep-85 05:18:53 EDT References: <274@cylixd.UUCP> <245@uw-june> Organization: Varian, Walnut Creek, CA Lines: 20 > I'm dropping my subscription to "Bicycling" now. "Bicycling" lost their > technical appeal to me when they spun off the "Bike Tech" newsletter > (a total rip-off!) and now there's no reason to subscribe to them at all > unless you are into racing. Too bad for them... On the contrary, there's no reason to subscribe to Bicycling if you're into racing. Their race coverage is spotty and months out of date. Their "training" articles may be OK but they're so repetitive that reading one issue a year gives you most of the information they'll publish. I subscribed to Bicycling (nee Bike World) for a dozen years and dropped it two years ago because they offered little of value to me as someone who's "into racing". I guess there's no reason to subscribe to Bicycling at all! For racing, Winning and Velo-News are the best low cost sources although both are little late with full race coverage. The European magazines still lead in terms of photo coverage and in-depth articles. A friend of mine brought me a copy of Sprint International (France) published the week after the Tour de France (8/1). It had a separate article for each stage with multiple color photos on every page and complete day by day stage and GC results in the back. I'm still waiting for Winning to publish their Tour de France coverage. Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com