What's your fav' bike mag?

[Paul_C]

Superbike (even though they've taken the boobs out).

And I subscribe to the British MCN Youtube channel. Does that count?

[Mort]

I've been reading superbike since the seventies. I even have the first edition somewhere. Still enjoy it.

AMCN is a brilliant mag though. One of the very best. Certainly puts that English Rag MCN to shame.

[LBD]

UK super bike is good but A MCN is my fav

[naphazoline]

........English is better than American to me.

I'd have to agree.
Yanks generally have too narrower focus,and not a lot of cutting edge stuff.
(No offense intended to any yanks on here.)

[Okey Dokey]

I subscribe to BRM and generally read the entire mag. I buy most issues of PB off the shelf, unless I'm feeling poor!

[davebullet]

BRM subscriber here. Has a road bike focus whereas Kiwirider mixes off-road and road.

AMCN - only read a couple of issues but it is a great mag.

[madbikeboy]

This is going to age me really badly, but I've been reading PB since FZR's were the beast. Does anyone else miss the humour of the writing from the early 90's. Gus Scott and Ronnie are both dead now, killed in bike accidents. I like the new PB, and even though it's run on the smell of an oily rag, it has articles that actually appeal and make sense to me. Olly Crick has now gone across to Superbike, and the tests around the 'Ring are no longer done since Dale Lomas left the mag.

I still have the first review of the GSXR1000 in 2001, and occasionally I bring it out just to see the impact of the bike and how far the bar has moved.

Superbike / Bike / FastBikes lack the real essence of being a biker to me, it's more like they're trying to be cool and funny and sell bikes - but in saying that I like the humility of the editors (Moby and Rupert) of Fastbikes and Superbike - plus Moby is into old bikes as well. He has a CB750 that I would sell your Granny for.

But, full circle, PB connects with me best.

[NZsarge]

Performance bikes / Superbike / Fast bike are all ok from time to time but need to be taken with a large grain of salt in respect to their bike reviews but all good in entertainment value...
Kiwi Biker, Bike Rider and AMCN are also worth a look too.

[madbikeboy]

Performance bikes / Superbike / Fast bike are all ok from time to time but need to be taken with a large grain of salt in respect to their bike reviews but all good in entertainment value...
Kiwi Biker, Bike Rider and AMCN are also worth a look too.

The bike reviews are basically worthless as you have to take their personal preferences, riding styles, road types etc in account. Moreover, they don't actually have to live with the bike - most reviewers will tell you how great an MV Augusta is, but they're horrible to ride, and parts are a real problem (for example). Ride for yourself.

[naphazoline]

Performance bikes / Superbike / Fast bike are all ok from time to time but need to be taken with a large grain of salt in respect to their bike reviews but all good in entertainment value...
Kiwi Biker, Bike Rider and AMCN are also worth a look too.

Don't get me wrong,i still like the NZ books,but i get the distinct impression that they feel obliged to say not too much against a marque/model in their reviews.
Some mag's seem to review EVERY bike as being the ducks nuts

I'm just guessing,but is that to do with the lack of available test bikes in NZ?
Or possibly just not getting past the WOW factor?

Big Dave might be able to answer this for me.

[Forest]

Since the redesign, Kiwirider is probably the one I enjoy most.

[SPman]

Performance Bikes used to do it, way back when, in the days of Ronnie, Gus, Mr Robinson, et. al......then it went all crap.
Bike, AMCN,and Rapid Bike are the main ones atm, although Ive started browsing PB again.

[mazz1972]

Motorcycle Trader

[ukusa]

been reading the odd BRM issue, pick it up when travelling. Not a bad read I must say.

[trailblazer]

i like to read bike rider, kiwi rider and dirt rider downunder. Awesome mags in my opinion.