Couldn't wait to get those "Ten Best", and "Motorcycle of the Year" issues. Aways enjoyed reader comments section. Like others, I subscribed to all of them.
The times, they are a'changin'...
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I began with Cycle in the very early 70s.
It was published by Petersens, and was sometimes called Petersens Cycle magazine... but the cover logo only said Cycle, if I'm remembering correctly.
They first had the columns by Peter Egan and Kevin Cameron, although the editors came and went.
Published from 1950 - 1991.
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Daily rider since May 1965
I have never listened to a podcast. Don't even know where you would hear one.... and have never read a digital magazine. The extent of my computer and ipad interaction is visiting 3 motorcycle forums I belong to (this being the forum I have belonged to the longest), and reading google news lol. I also don't seek out and watch Youtube videos, at least not very often. I will watch one then and again, but it's maybe 4 a year?
I'm amazed when I go to a restaurant and a group of people will all be sitting there reading their phones while eating and never talking to each other.
Heck, I mostly watch local channel 12 WKRC on my "smart tv", or reruns of Gunsmoke or Daniel Boone lol
I subscribed to Cycle World when I was about 13 or 14 because I knew I was going to get a motorcycle eventually. I finally bought one when I was 16, but couldn't ride it legally until I was 17.
It was the first subscription I ever bought and I don't remember how I paid for it since I didn't have a checkbook yet. I remember eagerly awaiting every issue and devouring it as soon as it came. The first thing I checked out was "slipstream" which I think was on the last page. I have fond memories of those days. I even remember twisting the handgrip on my bicycle to create the mental delusion that it made me faster.
It was the first subscription I ever bought and I don't remember how I paid for it since I didn't have a checkbook yet. I remember eagerly awaiting every issue and devouring it as soon as it came. The first thing I checked out was "slipstream" which I think was on the last page. I have fond memories of those days. I even remember twisting the handgrip on my bicycle to create the mental delusion that it made me faster.
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Lots of boomers subscribe to "Motorcycle Classics" on line and print. It's kinda fun to read about the restorations and Alan Cathcart riding some "unobtainium" and rare model.
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Alan... another good writer, that has been around a good while.
Wasn't he also a racer for a spell?
Wasn't he also a racer for a spell?
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I'm irritated when I go to a restaurant and learn there are no paper menus... go to their website online after you're seated, to find out what you can order.
Pfffttt!
And Double Pfffttt!!!
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I will grab an issue at my grocery store.
I enjoy Motorcycle Classics, and all the old bikes I will probably never ride. Lots of good history.
Mophead
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I used to have all those subscriptions and just got tired of 600cc shootouts every month. Did enjoy Peter Eagen, Kevin Cameron, Clement Salvadori articles.
Favorite writer of the moment is Uncle Phil. Never saw an article in Cycle World on renting a U Haul truck to get your bike back home. That is real life adventure you could be faced with. Not how much lean angle I can get on a 600cc sportbike.
Favorite writer of the moment is Uncle Phil. Never saw an article in Cycle World on renting a U Haul truck to get your bike back home. That is real life adventure you could be faced with. Not how much lean angle I can get on a 600cc sportbike.
my daughter made the comment the other day that boomers feel like the world should stop moving forward and keep everything in paper instead of digital.
At a restaurant that evening as she was reading her large printed menu I made a little phone sized rectangle with my hands and held it over her menu. Then asked her how convenient that would be for her to order her food while I moved my hands around the menu. She got the message.
Don't worry, you were counted.
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Yup, most of us here are boomers. I don’t mind and I’m in great company.
We couldn’t help when we were born and didn’t wreck the world (as individuals) but I digress…
We couldn’t help when we were born and didn’t wreck the world (as individuals) but I digress…
Peter Egan wrote columns, essays, articles and reviews in at least three print magazines that featured activities of interest to me across most of my life - Road & Track, Flying, and Cycle World. I no longer subscribe to any of these but he and Kevin Cameron gave me a view, often humorous but always interesting, into the people and machines that populate these activities.
Matt Foley was ahead of his time.
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That would please me assuming I'm not one of their party. So many times a pleasant repast has been disturbed by all too common loudmouths who think what they have to say is of interest to the farthest corners of the restaurant.
I'm an old guy who seldom shakes a brolly at the sky but I'd make an exception for 'digital diners'. Technology can make some aspects of dining out less egregious. But no paper menus would be annoying. I'd have to be pretty hungry not to leave. One day no paper menus may be ubiquitous. By then I won't be able to pass the credit check to dine at L’Idiot.
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1970s Creepy Van Guy wouldn't have had seats in the back of that van. Just a mattress and restraints.
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The times are changing. And now that we have read the barrage of misspelled cliches and stern voices ( twiddle head voices) assuring us we should have seen that coming.
We can take a deep breath and remember what magic it was to get your first glimpse of the newest shiny machines Japan had to offer plastered across glossy magazine paper.
Change is inevitable but it isn’t always for the better…….this world has seemingly become more efficient and convenient but inherently better it surely is not.
We can take a deep breath and remember what magic it was to get your first glimpse of the newest shiny machines Japan had to offer plastered across glossy magazine paper.
Change is inevitable but it isn’t always for the better…….this world has seemingly become more efficient and convenient but inherently better it surely is not.