RubeRad

My wife is a huge fan of the writing in Outside magazine, and I've read a lot of the articles and have to agree.

noglider 

Good man, @robertorolfo. I grew up with The New Yorker in the house, and a couple of years ago, my subscription lapsed. I renewed it a couple of months ago, and I'm really happy about that. I read both print and online versions.

robertorolfo

Believe it or not, despite growing up as a NY'er, I had never read the magazine until my 20's, when my (non-American) girlfriend at the time suggested it to me. I was one of those people that always confused it with New York magazine, and it was something of a revelation when I read it for the first time. I was also pretty embarrassed that someone from so far away from NY had to turn me on to it.

Perhaps only truly negative thing about my switch to commuting by bike is that I read it a little less now, since it was my exclusive reading material for the subway. It's an amazing publication with really gifted writers working there. Let's hope it never changes.

noglider 

Don't be embarrassed.

When The New Yorker was sold a few years ago, there was a concern, but it got even better. It really is pretty amazing, even if you're not from New York. I highly recommend The New Yorker Radio Hour Podcast, so you can listen to at least a little while bike commuting. It's actually two half-hour segments per week.

Rollfast

Stereophile was okay once but High Fidelity is badly missed here.

fietsbob

They buy the Whole Rodale publishing group or just the bike mag part?

eja_ bottecchia

RubeRad

Thx for the reco, I will definitely give that a try!

I-Like-To-Bike

The complete Rodale Operation see Hearst Completes Acquisition of Rodale Inc. Magazine Media Brands | Hearst


And is flipping the publishing group, see https://nypost.com/2018/01/09/hearst...-random-house/


And https://www.mcall.com/business/mc-biz...109-story.html

I-Like-To-Bike

Bicycling Magazine was never good for anything but promoting their advertisers and recycling the same old, same old nutrition malarkey.

AlmostGreenGuy

So did I. Both my father and grandfather were English teachers, and considered it the only magazine with literary content worth paying for.

Now get this. My grandfather actually lived the breathed the English language. He wrote textbooks on the English language for schools. He'd get the New Yorker, and then proceed to mark it up like a submitted school paper, noting all corrections that needed to be made. Then he'd mail back to the New Yorker. That's cajones.

RubeRad

That's awesome!

bigbenaugust 

I miss Bicycle Times already.

eja_ bottecchia

eja_ bottecchia

AlmostGreenGuy

cyccommute 

I don't agree. Back in the days of Frank Beto and John Allen (early to mid80s), it had informative articles. I learned how to build wheels out of Bicycling in 1986 and still use the same technique today. I learned about gearing from Frank Beto. I'll agree that it is mostly useless now but at one point it did have good writing, good articles and provided good information.

hoppydc

I fondly remember reading Bicycling back in the 1980s, as a teenager, back when there was no internet and that's all we had. It was a great mag back then.
Somehow in the last year I got a free subscription, maybe from buying something at Performance Bike. What a piece of junk this magazine has devolved into...more rubble from the internet destroying print. I guess that's what many print magazines are today, just glorified ads. The "editorial" reviews on bikes and gear are a joke, all puff pieces with a few sentences and lots of pics, to sell ads to the manufacturers who place the ads. The rest of it looks like Mens Health magazine with all these eye-rolling articles like "get ripped quads in 7 days!" As others have written, I can page through this rag in about 15 minutes. I cannot believe such a magazine is actually worth $225M. I guess the business model for these mags is now all about ads and not about circulation/subscription revenue.

RubeRad

That's good to know! I didn't notice the error, but I should have put that together. I used to live in the well-named city of El Cajon (it's a flat valley boxed in by surrounding hills)

DiabloScott

Cajon is also a kind of drum that looks like a box, popular in traditional Cuban music.

RidingMatthew

i agree whole heartedly best bicycling magazine that no longer exists.

Jim from Boston

.I also looked forward to each new issue of Bicycling Magazine in the 1970’s and 80’s, as I was avidly getting into the activity. I can’t exactly remember the decline, but I realized it had “jumped the shark” with the monthly Style Man feature.