Subject: RE: best cycle magazine
Author: Ambo-@netscape.net
Date: Aug 26, 2004, 3:26 PM
Post ID: 1717424376
I tried Motorcyclist but the writing was just too hip/juvenile for me. They do occasionally have good articles the others don't (such as the recent one on Hyosung the Korean bike company).
But I prefer Cycle World for two main reasons - Kevin Cameron (the tech editor, once on the staff of now defunct Cycle mag) and Peter Egan who always has great stories to tell and has a taste for European machinery. Kevin explains things way over my head in a way I can understand. Pete always makes me either laugh throughout the article or think about it for the next few days. I agree with Lannis though - lately there has been too many "cartoon" custom choppers and sportbike comparisons of almost the same bikes they've already done extensive write-ups on (and when they do have something in the camparison that interests me <Benelli Tornado> they don't even show a good picture of it!). They seem to be a little bit more interested in doing a good, fair test of Italian bikes than the others. Cycle World is after all the mag that picked the '98 EV over all the other cruisers at the time. Just my $.02 worth. Cheers,
Charlie
Lannis <lan-@direcway.com> wrote:
tom short wrote:
I'm letting my subscription to Cycle World drop. Too many bright sportbikes, "kustom kruisers", other things I'm not interested in. |
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