Bicycling magazine

[Timasin]

If 80% of these types of mag's are filled with paid for advertising space, then how can a purchase price be justified? Mens health, GQ, FHM etc all the same. Added to this most of the content is regurgitated between publications. 

[rock]

Last year I started buying Session, a local skateboard magazine, it comes out every 2nd month.

 

After the 2nd one that I bought for R35 I was then told it wouldnt be for sale anymore, instead it be available free from skateshops (not CNA) and you can download a digital copy for free as well if you like.......the magazine hasn't dropped one bit in quality.......

[cfcjim]

Reading from most electronic devices is not conducive to quality sleep:

 

That well known search engine can help with some interesting studies; some academic and some not so serious.

 

The blue light emitted is a well known disruptor of circadian rhythms.

 

I'm not a great fan of the advertorials that pass for journalism on some of the newsagent's shelves (do we still have newsagents?)

 

But they have their uses. With what would we stack our lavatory bookshelves?

[Patchelicious]

Best thing about this months Bicycling mag, is Fumics shoes on the cover!

[Simonpurdon]

I've bought the odd Tread in the last few months, find it to be the most relevant, up-to-date and content filled. Reading a magazine on an iPad or screen doesn't do it for me.

[Dexter-morgan]

The only way I would buy Bicycling mag is through Vitality works out to about R14 or 18 each, that was the last time I subscribed. I rather spend my time on "thehub"

[Paul Ruinaard]

FWIW: My wife found this mysubs app (which is on Android and IOS) where you pay like R 900 for a years subscription to a whole host of mags w including her girlie skinner hond mags (People and You) and all the rest including Go, Topgear, Topcar, Mens Health and Bicycling (plus others that I can't remember - Runners World etc.)

 

Saved me a bomb. Her "You" and "People" habit was worth the subs alone,  never mind my occasional purchases.

 

Anyway so i get to read any of them online and that way if i dont particularly like the content I can skim over it.

 

BTW - Reading from a screen seems to put me to sleep pretty quickly at night - about 20 lines in and my eyes are drooping.

 

IMHO: All of these mags eventually run out of content and rehash articles from the past issues. There is only so much original content on cycling and then you are in the world of fiction. 

[NotSoBigBen]

Just this weekend I looked at these at a local 'news agency' and I thought that's absurd it's a magazine for crying out loud not a book! I bet there is not much more than 20mins reading in either one 

 

International mountainbiking books also contain probably 50% (yes I'm making that up) about trails most of us will never ride ....

 

[arendoog]

I am guilty of buying Mountain Biking UK mags for R160 every now and then. 

 

I also like to read a physical magazine in bed, and at least you get some cool free stuff with the MBUK's.

 

Nevertheless the SA mags are shite!

The words Night ,bed ,tit, mouse ,guilty ,animals,snakes and hard were all used in the last few comments .What magezines and interweb sites are we referring to

[Josh0]

The words Night ,bed ,tit, mouse ,guilty ,animals,snakes and hard were all used in the last few comments .What magezines and interweb sites are we referring to

Hehehe

 

The interweb is a naughty, naughty place.

[nonky]

Nigh time + Bed + Cell + Lot's of Free and Good Cycling Content online = far better than a bloated overpriced mag to read ..... with the cell I can read in the dark too without needing the light on and disturbing the wife either.

 

Except for the fact that screen light is stuffing up your sleep...i am also guilty tho

[Hairy]

Except for the fact that screen light is stuffing up your sleep...i am also guilty tho

? why so ?

 

only time I have ever had an issue with sleep was on last years W2W where some ^#$&n idiot was sawing logs in the tent behind me, at some un-godly hour of the morning I was so #E&$$%^#$&^$%^&$ upset that I got out with the full intent of kicking his #$$&&%*$*& head in through the tent wall ..... the he shut up!

[Patchelicious]

Something awkward about taking an iPad to the loo, hard copies work best for that.

[banna]

I work for one of the big printing groups, so I guess I'm obliged to say that printed material still rules the roost.  But, I actually do prefer paging through a MtbUK, What mtbike etc much more than scrolling up and down on the Ipad. There's just something more personal/intimate about paging through a mag or a book. A warm fuzzy feeling that I don't get from the electronic platforms. 

[Hackster]

If 80% of these types of mag's are filled with paid for advertising space, then how can a purchase price be justified? Mens health, GQ, FHM etc all the same. Added to this most of the content is regurgitated between publications. 

You don't understand the model. In many cases, the purchase price of the magazine doesn't even cover printing and distribution costs. Many mags are actually sold at a loss before you factor in advertising revenue. And even with advertising revenue the margins are often very, very slim. Mens Health probably does okay, and maybe so does GQ, as for FHM, they closed that title quite a while ago. The 30 - 50 runts that you pay for the average local magazine isn't making their owners rich. Those days are long over.

[Johnny Lawless]

Accidentally subscribed to MBUK for a year. They had one of those "get a month free if you subscribe for a year" promos. The idea is that you cancel it in the first month after getting your free copy and before the payment happens. The promo was for new subscribers only and I completely forgot that I subscribed for one of these free promos before. R600 immediately deducted. Oh well, at the rate the ZAR is dropping to the GBP it seems like it was a good investment ????

 

Unrelated but I once sent a photo to What Mountain Bike UK for the joke and forgot about it until I saw this a few months later in their "readers secion" of their "Trail bike of the year 2015" edition. My bike at the time's claim to fame ????