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From: wagner@uw-june (Dave Wagner)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Re: bicycling magazines
Message-ID: <270@uw-june>
Date: Thu, 26-Sep-85 16:12:51 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 26 16:12:51 1985
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> > (me:)
> > 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...
> 
> (fred@varian:)
> 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  Their race coverage is spotty and months out of date.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.
> 
Yeah, you're right.  
I didn't mean they concentrate on race coverage, I meant that they
concentrate on how to go fast.
What I really should have said was, "now there's no
reason to subscribe to them at all unless you are into TRIATHLONS".
I think that the people at Bicycling
have observed that triathloning is the big thing now, and so they're
trying to capitalize on it.  In doing so, they've completely forgotten
about all the recreational riders and tourists who've been subscribing
for years.  Dammit, there's a magazine called Triathlete for those people;
why can't a magazine called Bicycling be about bicycling only!
That's why I dropped them.


			Dave Wagner
			University of Washington Comp Sci Department
			wagner@washington.arpa
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