Practical Sportbikes Magazine is toast

**F5 Dave** · 23rd March 2023, 17:32

Of a Saturday morning, one of my pleasures is reading a bike magazine.

More and more are disappearing. Can't compete with the free content on OhhToobe etc.

A great shame. Mail arrived yesterday. Cover says ;

Final Issue.
150 forgettable issues.

Doubt those guys will all get jobs. There's more journalists than seats currently.

Nothing like paper copies with great pictures.

Wonder if I'll get a refund of my subscription or if they try fob my off onto Country lifestyle and Leisure?

Wonder how the printed porn industry is going? Probably even worse.

**george formby** · 23rd March 2023, 17:58

According to a bloke on the radio, the Rock, natch, finding a stick mag under a truck drivers seat is a thing of the distant past.

**F5 Dave** · 23rd March 2023, 18:00

On the What? Do they still have radio?

**Laava** · 23rd March 2023, 18:05

Ten four good buddy come back.

**F5 Dave** · 23rd March 2023, 18:09

I haven't gone anywhere, and your counting backwards confuses me. Aren't there some other numbers in between? A 9, 6 and some others?

**Laava** · 23rd March 2023, 18:13

Sorry, what was that? I was busy hammering down my rubber ducky!

**HenryDorsetCase** · 23rd March 2023, 18:21

I'm fucking gutted by the demise of Practical Sportsbikes. I used to get Cycle World (US) Performance Bikes (UK) Bikerider magazine (NZ) and an occasional Two Wheels. I started subscribing to bike mags in 1982 when I had to send a money order to the States to get cycle world. The Duct Tapes. Kevin Cameron. Phil Schilling editor.

I love to loll about the house or sit on the shitter reading a magazine.

Dislike.

Grumpy old man out.

I think I will write to my MP. and also Echo and the Bunnymen. Dear Mr Echo......

**F5 Dave** · 23rd March 2023, 18:47

The Duct Tape with Ed Herdfield- someone-or- other was a firm favourite.

**SaferRides** · 24th March 2023, 06:15

It is sad to see so many mags stop publishing. I never really connected with Practical Sportsbikes, but still miss Performance Bikes!

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**F5 Dave** · 24th March 2023, 06:31

I'd subscribed to pb since near inception, but had grown tired of the general format and changed over to ps. Then they combined the mags. Sure sign of trouble I remember from my comic days.

I used to read SportRider from US. But eventually I couldn't face yet another 600 or 1000 shootout followed by Tire shootout and an article on setting sag.

**pritch** · 24th March 2023, 08:38

Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase

I'm fucking gutted by the demise of Practical Sportsbikes. I used to get Cycle World (US) Performance Bikes (UK) Bikerider magazine (NZ) and an occasional Two Wheels. I started subscribing to bike mags in 1982 when I had to send a money order to the States to get cycle world. The Duct Tapes. Kevin Cameron. Phil Schilling editor.

Ahh the Duct Tapes by Ed Hertfelder. Some of the funniest stuff I ever read. "The Clint Eastwood Invitationl Enduro" magic.

And Peter Egan. I have a couple of his books - and a Cameron. Maybe I should have a look at Abe's Books to see if I can get a used copy of The Duct Tapes collection

Thanks for the memories.

**Berries** · 24th March 2023, 11:48

So I have deleted a teary eyed lament about PB and my youth and will just say that tonight I am getting the VHS player out and having a solid session of watching Gus and Ronnie fucking about all over Europe.

Chin chin.

**R650R** · 24th March 2023, 12:06

Used to eagerly await the latest copy of Fast Bikes with there honest road tests and occasional crash tests meant they sometimes had to buy their own test bikes as manufacturers wouldn’t let them have press bikes.
The Emmett brothers with their BSBK and 500GP efforts, Ian Cramps technical articles and later his lion heart home built 500 gp engine project....
Colin’s Schillers bitingly prose protesting at onslaught of political correctness. Met him at Ally Palace bike show in the twilight years of the original mag.
The turbo fire blade project...

Performance Bikes was ok especially when they had the dole bludger Kevin part time road testing. His epic cover shot rear wheel sliding Suzuki RF900 on full lock...
High point was when both started doing tits on bikes centrefolds for the man cave.

After fastbikes collapsed a few years later Colin did another mag that was purely racing scene focused had some great interviews

**jellywrestler** · 24th March 2023, 15:38

Originally Posted by F5 Dave

Wonder how the printed porn industry is going? Probably even worse.

probably thriving with people too scared to watch on line porn as they think the camera in their device maybe activated and recording them interfereing with themselves.