Comments on: Cycle World Magazine Possibly for Sale

By: Mule

Mule — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:10:20 +0000

I like Cycle World a lot…..most of the time. When I go to the newstand and peruse all the bike publications, I’ll always BUY a Cycle World. Other mags have a couple pictures that I would like to have at home to glean ideas from for later bike builds, or maybe one key article, but little else. You almost need to buy them all to satisfy the whole hunger for bike stuff. The problem that Cycle World has is the need to satisfy the entire CYCLE….World. Motorcycling has become very specialized and splintered. That’s why websites that cater to micro interests can flourish. As for the mention of Rodders Journal, I have a subscription to that as well as VMX(Vintage Motocross) from Australia.

The Cycle World Forum IS dreadfull, I agree. It’s been hijacked by a handful of Forum Thugs that are compelled to comment on everything 12 times a day and they chase off everyone else. I don’t know how you stop that, once it’s happened. Personally, I think the world could survive just fine without any forums. Some day the web may contain facts instead of eight million crackpot opinions! I guess mine is one of them.

By: Walt

Walt — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:19:39 +0000

I know it’s tough to come up with two good and creative columns a month (for Cycle World and R&T), but Peter Egan depends way too often on story lines that go
“here’s what I just sold and why and how and who I sold it to” or “here’s what I just bought and why and how and who I bought it from.” I suppose he gets to write off the purchases as a business expense. I would.

Peter’s a good enough writer to inject color and humor and make it somewhat entertaining, but enough, already!

Like others here, I too like American Flyers.

By: Secaman

Secaman — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:58:41 +0000

Motorcyclist is junk. Things must be desperate for them. They ran out of good journalism and substituted it with horrid writing and obscene language. Thank goodness Mitch Boehm is starting his own publication (Motorcycle Retro-due out in May). It’s good to know there is still some good guys left in the world.

By: tim

tim — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:57:35 +0000

whoops correct “in” thinking that should be. Doh.

By: tim

tim — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:57:05 +0000

I also quite like the Tech section (the Q & A one) in the back of CW.

Am I correct and thinking that Performance Bikes and CW are both owned by HFM? there was some crossover content a year or so back (euro cannonball run story IIRC – guy got arrested or something)