Motorcyclist Get Rabate

Title : Motorcyclist
Category: Automotive

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Rating : 2.6
Buyer Review : 10










Review :
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Motorcyclist is a mainstay in the motorcycle magazine world, a place where cycle novices like this reviewer can begin to get a monthly diet of news, mechanics, advertisements, reviews, and cycle talk.

The format is busy, with very narrow margins. Think the opposite of those luxury goods magazines that seem bent on calming your mind. MOTORCYCLIST wants to rev it up, or better yet, place it in a helmet and roughly equidistant between the two ends of a handlebar.

The magazine pays fair attention to racing and racing cycles, then moves on to street bikes and eventually to the cruisers that most interest this middle-aged fat boy of a reviewer. The current issue in front of me has an Asian touch, with a series of articles headlined provocatively as 'Korean bikes: do they suck?' and an article entitled 'Riding the Ho Chi Minh Trail.'

'Makes one recall thirty years ago, when we couldn't imagine that a company named Honda could actually squeak out a running...
This magazine is paper thin...
I subscribed for a year just because the price was only $10. I now know that the price of $10 was not really worth it for this magazine. First of all, when you hold it in your hands, you can feel how light and insubstantial it is. Then, you open it up and it's mostly ads for motorcycle gear and cars (!). I used to like Motorcyclist for its articles and the way I would get excited about new bikes and technologies they presented.

But then I started reading the far, far better UK bike mags like Bike and Superbike (which are more along my interests anyway since they mainly feature sportbikes). But you pick up one of those, yes they cost $10 each, but they are like 5 times the weight of Motorcyclist and jam packed with actually relevant articles that inform me and get me excited about riding every time I read. Unfortunately for us Americans, the UK bike scene is better in every way, so it's mostly a gallery of what we can't have.

Anyway, skip this magazine. It's...
Aimlessly Adrift...

When Mitch Boehm left, and Brian Catterson took top spot, this magazine went into a tailspin. Despite several retorts that it didn't turn into a Ducati infomercial, the evidence is overwhelming to the contrary. The writing went downhill, the perspective of what motorcycling means to a wider audience, and the circumspect approach to all owners flew out the window. I used to tell people Motorcyclist was the best. Not anymore. Do yourself a favor and get Cycle World. The writing is better, the experts are more credible, the articles are more intelligent, and they cover ALL the bikes. Rider is improving with each issue, having also surpassed Motorcyclist in quality some time ago.