Kiwi Rider friends

[xwhatsit]

I've bought a couple of Kiwiriders, and I found the content-to-advertisement ratio poor. What content there was I enjoyed reading, but the fact was you end up chewing through the magazine pretty quickly for your dollar.

But I dare say that's out of the hands of the people who run the mag; what cs363 said is probably quite right. And it's by no means a problem limited to KR -- pick up any modern magazine about bikes or cars or home audio and you'll find a similar result.

@Jim2: You're dead right, good quality paper does make me happy -- as does good quality typography, which a lot of modern magazines don't have at all. The letter kerning in most mags on the shelves look like something out of MS Word. And what's with all the pixelated images? Haven't people heard of vector graphics? I dunno if KR is guilty of it though Might pick up this November edition and have a squiz. Consider your promotion successful, BD

I suppose my model magazine is something along the lines of New Scientist -- a couple of dollars, comes out often, packed with dense writing and two pages of ads right at the end

[BIGBOSSMAN]

Yup I agree - it's a big improvement in quality, let alone design/layout. It must be more expensive to print (now litho vs web offset) but you're now doing Biketrader as a download so the page count has come down, keeping the extra cost under control hopefully!
On another note, when I bought Kiwirider in the '80's I remember a review of the then-new Yamaha RZ500. For some reason I remember some of the text from the article - amazing how the printed word sometimes remains in the old grey matter eh!
Would be great to see a 'nostalgia' article of old reviews. Or am I just Don Quixote tilting at windmills...

[Big Dave]

Would be great to see a 'nostalgia' article of old reviews. Or am I just Don Quixote tilting at windmills...

I think archiving some of the old mag articles on the web site would be a great idea.

[Big Dave]

Might pick up this November edition and have a squiz. Consider your promotion successful, BD

Look for the handsome dude on the cover.

[James Deuce]

Look for the handsome dude on the cover.

*mmmmmmmmmpppfffffffff*

[Big Dave]

Why is everyone talking to me like this today:

"The ergos for a big man are more sit upright than lean back and I had no trouble spending all day in the saddle. ‘Pfheooow’ was about the closest I could get to the noise the Co-pilot made when I asked her about pillion comfort levels. ‘But it’s almost worth it to listen to it’ was her final word."