Sangetsu

Ditto.

Up until the the Le Mond years, it was a great magazine. As a teenager I loved it, and bought a new issue each month. Back then it was about cycling, riding to interesting places, with well-written stories (or so I thought at the time).

But it evolved away from the simple pleasure of bicycles and cycling, and became "trendy". The focus was now about "finding one's self on a bike." I find myself on a bike whenever I ride one, I don't ride a bike to find spiritual enlightenment, I ride because I enjoy doing so.

And then the ads. I like old-style ad layout, Bike Nashbar always had a two-page layout, with many products, and few photos. Nowadays Bicycling has more ad space and ad literature than it does articles and information.

I haven't read an issue of Bicycling in more than a decade now, and I haven't visited their website since Bush was president.