Motorcycle Enthusiast Magazines

DirtFlier

DirtFlier

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Yesterday, my Rider and Road Runner showed up on the same day in my mailbox. The first thing I noticed was the huge difference in thickness with Rider having hardly any. Upon closer inspection, I counted 24 full pages of ads for tours, states, and regions ("Visit....") in Road Runner and that's not counting the ads along the left & right margins of many pages. :-(

I will cancel my subscription to Rider and only get Road Runner via my Delta Miles so there is no cash involved. A sad sign of the times.
 
Road Runner and MCN were the last two I had a subscription to. Now I don’t have subscriptions to any magazines.......except Consumer Reports.
 
I still get and love Bike -- a British motorcycle magazine. I pay about $6/issue with a monthly debit to my bank account. It's got a few bikes that we can't buy in the US, but it covers the spectrum of motorcycling in an honest and enjoyable way. I does take a while to get used to Brit slang. I also get Rider. For some reason, I've never been able to get into RoadRunner. I don't know why. I've subscribed to it three times over the years, and bought some from newsstands (remember those?), but it just leaves me cold.
 
Turns out it was 25 pages because on the front cover they proclaim "25-page motorcycle destination guide."
 
I subscribed to Bike and I am anxiously awaiting my first issue
 
Contrary to my personal promise to cutback on my magazine subscriptions, I recently subscribed to "Classic Bike Guide," a Brit magazine. I'd been buying it occasionally from a magazine stand at $10+ a copy so this knocks a little off that. They usually have at least one how-to-do-it article per issue and I often find it fascinating to see how blokes do it across the pond. It's not common to have a garage as we know them so a lot of them have to survive in unheated sheds when working on their bikes.
 
This isn't just bike mags. I get a couple hunting magazines. They started as monthlies, then bi-monthly, and now quarterly. Tough line of work these days I assume. The easy money is gone.

Brad
 
Likeafox said:
Why subscribe to print publication when internet exists?
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I don't like reading magazines digitally. Books, on the other hand, I no longer like reading in print. That's my only reason. I do read more digital motorcycle stuff than I used to, but mainly because the print versions of motorcycle magazines are going away.
 
Another advantage to magazines is that you can save them and go back and re-read things. I have let this get out of control at times in the past, but now I'm down to only saving copies of one magazine for more than a month or two. That magazine is not a motorcycling magazine, but a (mostly) sailing related one, "Small Craft Advisor."
 
My county recycling center accepts "all paper products" so I've been taking my old magazines there to get rid of them. I saved my Rider magazines for years then recently realized it was a waste of time since I never went to a back issue to research something which meant they were useless and just taking up space in my closet!
 
DirtFlier said:
I saved my Rider magazines for years then recently realized it was a waste of time since I never went to a back issue to research something which meant they were useless and just taking up space in my closet!
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Same for my collection of bike mags that went back to the 60s. Rarely looked at em. We recently moved to a rental while our new house is being built and cleared out a lot of stuff.
 
About a week ago I noticed that the last issue of Rider magazine that I received was the March issue, my subscription is good until 2024.
I sent a e-mail to Rider magazine and have received no response, looks like another print magazine has bit the dust.
Can anyone on this forum provide any info?
 
I use to like RoadRunner more then I do now, but keep my subscription and pass it on to my son when I read them. MCN got too expensive, and they started having articles that had nothing to do with motorcycles. I been to the RR gatherings, and like to group of riders. May go to there gathering again some time, just don't know how a guy with out a job does not seem to have time to ride (but some how I not on the saddle>
 
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