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RIDE UK MAG
TwoBobRob:
It's always gone up and down in my opinion. I don't buy it anymore because a) I don't feel the need to pay to see adverts, and b) I have nothing in common with the brakeless whippers that seem to fill the pages these days...
But I'm sure I'll start buying it again one day.
dirtyvans:
it is pish poor - far too many road trip write ups and pages of whats on ya ipod etc
its a shame they dont do things like proper bike tests, where they actually ride the bikes, like the old days giving em to Sid salisbury to try and break them :daumenhoch: snowboard mags still have proper tests of boards like this
theres not enough techy stuff in it either or 'how to's'
they should cover different styles of riding more as well
SaMAlex:
THe problem with bike tests is they never tell you what actualy went wrong with the bike, esp if the bike company are paying for add space cos they dont wanna pee them off. It used to drive me mad when a new model frame solved a problem that the magazine didnt tell you about first time. They only said it was ever an issue when they were testing the bike with the solution!
You cant blame them. You dont wanna bite the hand that feeds you, but bike companies should make good stuff, and be held up if they cant ... no mater how much add space they buy :rant:
hey, Ive never got to use the "rant on, rant off" thing before! Cool.
WizardWeb:
So far as I can see you don't get proper product tests because it's not about product as it was in the 80's, it's about "lifestyle".
There's also the cynical view that if they started to do group bike tests again, it'd show that they're nearly all the same. :LolLolLolLol:
Seriously though, the frames are starting to get a little more unique in places, but in the main you can still take the stickers off and no one would be able to tell what's what. It's cool that colours are back though.
bmxmatt1974:
dig mag is better, though its been taken over by guys from ride so that probably go down hill now
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