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From: fred@varian.UUCP (Fred Klink)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Re: bicycling magazines
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Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 11:47:26 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 19 11:47:26 1985
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> 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  Their race coverage is spotty and months out of date.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.