WHAT MAGAZINES DO YOU READ [Archive]

Bleck K6

4th July 2004, 19:24

Just want to know what mags everyones reading.I used to buy performance streetbike all the time didnt miss an issue for a couple of years.
Now I just buy issues of superbike,performance bikes,fast bikes,performance streetbike,motorcycle trader or what ever looks interesting.

Motoracer

4th July 2004, 19:27

Playboy, Penthouse, Hustler...

What?

4th July 2004, 19:28

Two Wheels, Streetbike, Kiwirider, BRM without fail.
Motorcycle Trader and AMCN occasionally.
Classic Mechanics rarely.
Bike, Performance Bikes never.

Magua

4th July 2004, 19:32

Motorcycle trader, the occasional FHM.

Badcat

4th July 2004, 20:18

kiwirider
two wheels
cycleworld
performance bikes
macguide
cuisine
pavement
remix

and thats cut down a shitload since the internet

k

Funkyfly

4th July 2004, 20:42

That new "MOTO" rag is a good one. Like performance street bike.

Jinx3d

4th July 2004, 21:11

If it looks interesting.

Problem is, the seedy porn sections mean I cant take it to work for fear of being fired.

Bleck K6

4th July 2004, 23:16

kiwirider

and thats cut down a shitload since the internet

k
Yeah the nets really good for findin out anything you need to know.

moko

5th July 2004, 00:46

Used Bike Guide because they give it to me for nothing and I write for them sometimes,RIDE`s really good,loads of used machines tested and they have a massive database from their yearly survey so you get to read about bikes from those that actually ride them every day and spent their own money on them.Also they destruction test all kinds of bike gear,great mag.I liked kiwirider from the 2 or 3 copies I read while on holiday.apart from that I flip through the rest at W.H.Smiths(same company as Whitcouls I believe)which gets like a public library on a Saturday morning.Their shops are really badly laid out and paying is a pain in the arse so i browse their then pick up anything I fancy in the little shop round the corner where the greek guy would cut your hands off for flipping through his mags.

Bob

5th July 2004, 02:16

Used Bike Guide because they give it to me for nothing and I write for them sometimes
Me too! Great, isn't it? [Smug] - I read (some) of it when the free copy turns up. I also read RiDE as it has good tests and the Rider Power Survey (something like 12 to 15,000 riders fill in the questionnaire) makes for really useful reading. It is how I found the dealers I use now.

I read Bike most months (but not all) - first thing I do is turn to Dan Walsh (how I wish I had a fraction of his ability). I did read T.W.O. (Two Wheels Only) for a time - mainly as it has Niall MacKenzie (3 times Brit Superbike champ and former GP rider - best season place 4th) as Road Test Editor, but it doesn't seem to know if it is trying to be Bike or Superbike (guess which former employees of which two magazines make up the staff?)

Other than that? I get a magazine called 'Progress', which is the magazine of the Institute of Advanced Motorcylists (again, I write the occasional thing for them, so I get it free of charge).

Holy Roller

5th July 2004, 05:15

Motorcycle marketplace
Kiwi Rider
Twin Eagle
BRM
NZ 4WD
Aus 4WD
NZ Hunter
Rod and Rifle
Fish and Game
And anything else that takes my eye,
I own a stationery shop
We have no sleazy stuff a family safe store,
pity Super Bike spoilt a good mag with a few pix and adverts. :bash:

moko

5th July 2004, 09:28

We have no sleazy stuff a family safe store,
pity Super Bike spoilt a good mag with a few pix and adverts. :bash:

When Superbike first came out back in the 70`s it had nude women in every bike test and a centrefold.Then it toned down a lot and became more mainstream,the newer nude stuff is fairly recent.

geoffm

5th July 2004, 10:41

I used to get Motorcycle Mechanics, which then became Performance Bikes. The articles by the Late Great John Robinson were excellent, and the tests were pretty good and honest.
I gave up a couple of years back, when they became like a 2 wheel RiceBoy racer mag.
Other than that, Rod and Rifle, NZ Guns
Geoff

menace

5th July 2004, 11:42

Performance car and zoom... :D

vifferman

5th July 2004, 12:09

Despite an extensive culling, I still have a huge stack of old Two Wheels and Performance Streetbike mags, so I occasionally re-read those, as I'm not allowed to buy bike mags, and quite frankly whenever I look at some in the stationers, it makes me go, "Ehhhh....so what! I'd rather be riding..."

jimbo600

5th July 2004, 12:16

scumdog

5th July 2004, 12:25

Looks at "magazine rack" (the kitchen table).
Twin Eagle
New Zealand Guns and Hunting
N Z Hot Rod
Petrolhead
classicford
N Z Rodder
KiwiRider

Also get BRM and other car/hunting books as takes my fancy.

BTW What happened to Twin Eagle? just kind of drifted off with no warning, does anybody know the true story? Use to appeal as it covered the rally scene quite well.

menace

5th July 2004, 14:08

Playboy, Penthouse, Hustler...

There are words in those? :O I never knew.... <_<

DEATH_INC.

5th July 2004, 14:10

Not many anymore,but in order of preferance:
fastbikes
superbike
performance bikes
the odd streetbike,kiwirider and brm ect
My flatmates streetmachine
and the odd performance car......

Wenier

5th July 2004, 14:16

performance bike and occasionaly ralph or fhm

Two Smoker

5th July 2004, 18:17

BRM
Kiwi Rider (occassionally)
Performance Car (dont anymore)
Auto Car (Old Man has a Subscrition so its free)
Performance Bikes and Super Bike (if i could afford it)

Big Dog

5th July 2004, 18:37

Superbike, BRM usually one other make a month of bedtime stories if supplemented by a good book (insomniac).

At the moment I am also hook line a sinker for Fast Bikes, The profiles are shit and the models are really bad value for money. But the heart wants what the heart wants.

SPman

5th July 2004, 19:23

Anything thats free! :rolleyes:

Lou Girardin

5th July 2004, 20:09

Kiwirider, BRM, Bike UK, AMCN. Don't bothyer with Superbike anymore, writers are tossers and the chicks are ugly.

Lou Girardin

5th July 2004, 20:10

Kiwirider, BRM, Bike UK, AMCN. Don't bother with Superbike anymore, writers are tossers and the chicks are ugly.

Bleck K6

5th July 2004, 20:18

good to see a lot of people buying the NZ mags :2thumbsup. TS I know what you mean the pommy mags are really expensive.

Marknz

6th July 2004, 16:42

Superbike, Two Wheels & can't ever go without AMCN. Will pick up a Kiwi mag if I'm bored or if the bloke doing a mono on the front is someone I know as well as the bloke that took the piccie...

White trash

6th July 2004, 16:46

Wot he said!

I buy the magazines with good looking pricks such as myself doing unbelievably irresponsible shit on the cover.

All done in "Photoshop" in case you're wondering :rolleyes:

Motu

6th July 2004, 17:02

Anything thats free! :rolleyes:

Come down and browse the mags I put out for my customers to read while they wait - it's funny to watch them flick through the magazines with a look of hopeless dispare - they are all bike mags,piles of them.

Go on,steal something from me,everyone else does.

fastford111

6th July 2004, 20:13

i get aussie motor cycle news and the english streetfighters havent seen any kiwi bike mags in the stores

jimbo600

6th July 2004, 20:19

Wot he said!

I buy the magazines with good looking pricks such as myself doing unbelievably irresponsible shit on the cover.

All done in "Photoshop" in case you're wondering :rolleyes:

Bout time we got workin' on that DVD eh?

Holy Roller

7th July 2004, 20:17

BTW What happened to Twin Eagle? just kind of drifted off with no warning, does anybody know the true story? Use to appeal as it covered the rally scene quite well.

I phoned the distrubutor today as i had not seen it for a while on the shelf. Aparently the last issue was back in October that they had. The twin eagle web site is also no more. Like you said it was a great mag pity to see it go

Velox

8th July 2004, 11:08

I go for the kiwi stuff - doesn't have all the porn. Gotta support local stuff too eh?! Just wish they'd have some better articles and columns sometimes, like the Brit ones do.

Paul in NZ

8th July 2004, 11:26

Classic Bike (getting boring)
The Classic motorcycle (always good)
Bike (Ogri is my hero, Dan Walsh is a close second)
MCM (Motorcycle Consumer something) Got given a sub. Bloody good mag. NO advertising! Non glossy, tells it like it is... Interesting...
MGNOC Newsletter (I'm a staff writer so I gets it for free - cool eh?)

Cheers

Paul N

pete376403

9th July 2004, 10:16

Bike (Ogri is my hero, Dan Walsh is a close second)
Cheers
Paul N

Fred Gassit in the Aussie mag was good, but Maynard (the scooter with sidecar, koala for passenger? ) was just weird

12th July 2004, 05:12

Bleck K6

12th July 2004, 08:21

Does anyone else remember the Aussie fortnightly mag "Revs"? It was great, but sadly folded. They had a wonderful comic strip about a scooter with a sidecar, "Eric and Douglas" - the one in the sidecar was a koala. One day at (the old) Bay Park at a club day, two of my mates put a chair on a Vespa and the one in the chair dressed up in a koala suit - it was classic.
I have about 10 copies of REVs I have kept them for the posters of the first generation GSXRs.

13th July 2004, 05:00

I have about 10 copies of REVs I have kept them for the posters of the first generation GSXRs.
If ever I'm in Whangarei I'd like to have a look if that's okay - sadly in various moves I've lost all my copies. I caught up with Mike Esdaile recently at the Post Classic meeting at Pukekohe - he was editor for a long time. Very interesting bloke, knows heaps about bikes.

PS: I haven't been to Whangarei for years and years and years, so don't go sorting them out just yet! :laugh:

pete376403

13th July 2004, 10:44

Does anyone else remember the Aussie fortnightly mag "Revs"? It was great, but sadly folded. They had a wonderful comic strip about a scooter with a sidecar, "Eric and Douglas" - the one in the sidecar was a koala. One day at (the old) Bay Park at a club day, two of my mates put a chair on a Vespa and the one in the chair dressed up in a koala suit - it was classic.
Yeah, you're right, Eric and Douglas. Maynard was another cartoon and it was strange. I've got some old bike mags up in the roof, may be some REVs and AMCNs up there

14th July 2004, 05:16

Yeah, you're right, Eric and Douglas. Maynard was another cartoon and it was strange. I've got some old bike mags up in the roof, may be some REVs and AMCNs up there

Pete: if ever you're searching through and find any REVs, I'd really love to have a look at them if that's okay.