The times, they are a'changin'...

Been getting motorcycle mags since the 60's. I used to get 5 different moto mags. Printed ones on glossy paper you could sit on the can and read if you wanted to. I'm down to one and it expires in November, I think. Don't believe I'm even going to be renewing that one, They keep trying to push me into reading it online. Figure it's only matter of time before they quit printing.
 
I still have a copy somewhere of the review Cycle World did on the Moto Guzzi CX100 I purchased that year. Sorry to see them go, but they lasted longer than most in this digital age.
 
I used to read it all the time, but they were covering more things that didn’t interest me like track bikes and Moto GP, so I stopped reading. Currently I don’t subscribe to any magazines, even the digital type.
 
I won't miss them. :eek: Yes, I know. Horror! Gasp! Shriek!

@Chris09 made a good comment. He wishes he had the magazines from the 80's. If you (we) have to go back 40 years to when something was good.... Yeah, they were good then...but not anymore.

The print magazines are full of ads and have little in substance. "First Ride" articles are like the writer picked up the company's sales brochure and used that. Kevin Ash did great reviews and the world lost a great motorcycle reviewer when he died. But these new writers???

And when did you last see a comparison review of a bike you were interested in?

They forgot who their audience was and focused on saving money.

Chris
 
I've to agree with @Daboo there...

Back in the day I too was a sucker for various rags, nature & science like GEO or PM (Peter Moosleitner), of HiFi... and they had real good content with literally no adds...
After a while you've the first 3ft stack of magazines... soon accompanied by a 2nd stack growing aside... and then a 3rd...
And one day you're just fed up, having picked up the tumbling/sliding stacks for like a hundred times...

And these day?
Rarely an story/report without an angle, an objective, some form of marketing/propaganda... "He who pays the piper calls the tune"...
 
the Ferret said:
Been getting motorcycle mags since the 60's. I used to get 5 different moto mags.
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I must have subscribed to at least 5, as well, but I didn't start till the early 70s... and boy, they DID stack up!
I enjoyed Peter Egan and Kevin Cameron.
These days it's Noraly, Bret Tcaks, Chris Birch, and Zack Courts and others on YouTube and farcebook.
Sorry, @Mellow ...the times, they are STILL a' changin'! 🥰
 
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