 | Bicycling (1-year auto-renewal)
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Product Description
Since 1962, BICYCLING has been inspiring people to get more out of their cycling passion. Each action-packed issue is filled with proven secrets to go faster, stronger, longer. Increase your stamina; buy the best gear for your money; locate a great ride; improve your performance; perfect your technique; fuel your passion.
- Amazon Sales Rank: #261 in Magazine Subscriptions
- Formats: Magazine Subscription, Print
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Who Reads Bicycling Magazine?
Bicycling is the world's leading cycling magazine – and the only one that covers the entire spectrum of cycling from road cycling to mountain biking to recreational cycling and cycling for health and fitness. Each action-packed issue is filled with proven secrets that are guaranteed to help you go faster, stronger, longer.
Bicycling's unique combination of travel, gear, fitness, style and award-winning stories -- all surrounded by vivid photography and framed in elegant design -- brings the sport to life. On and off your bike, Bicycling will fuel your cycling passion. Bicycling will take you to the world's premier cycling destinations, keep you up-to-date on the latest cycling technology and challenge you to be faster, stronger and better every day.
What You Can Expect in Each Issue:
Regular sections of Bicycling include:
- Fitness and training tips, nutrition pointers and skills to ride harder and smarter
- Industry-standard reviews of bikes and gear, perfect for every riding style and budget
- Inspiration and accessible advice on how to enjoy the ultimate rides around the world
- Award-winning feature stories that celebrate cycling's defining characters
- Best Bike Trails and Trips for the Ride of a Lifetime
- Spring Riding Basics
- New bike reviews
- The Essential Got- to- Have Gear Review
- Ride in Style: Style Man Reviews the best new riding apparel for 2009
- Fitness and Training Tips from the Professionals to help you get faster and stronger
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Most helpful customer reviews
105 of 107 people found the following review helpful.
A long downhill ride...
By Leslie Reissner
Having regularly read "Bicycling" for many years (even when it was called "Bicycling!" in a tasteless 1970s way), I find it surprising to see how much the quality of the magazine has declined. In spite of all those people spending huge amounts of money on fancy equipment, "Bicycling" has become thinner and thinner. It has recently improved somewhat, after most of the editorial staff was fired, and a sign is the dropping of the truly horrible marginal comments (Bike Love and so forth) but it is only suitable for real neophytes. Unfortunately, there is no other single magazine that covers racing, bike touring, test reviews, technique and fitness in North America, no matter how poorly. The articles are very short and sometimes, well, just stupid. There is very little on cycling destinations or serious equipment tests. The photography remains decent, but compared to the German magazine "Tour," for example, "Bicycling" is a pretty sad effort. If you can read this, you have access to the Internet, which means you have far better sources of information to draw on. I am letting my subscription lapse and advise you to save your money. A big disappointment, "Bicycling" has not advanced with its readers.
57 of 61 people found the following review helpful.Used to be a decent mag, now shameless product promotion
By G. Powell
Ok, I admit it, I still drool over hot bikes. But the essence of the bike reviews in this magazine are, "Whatever you are riding is junk, buy this hot cool bike made from unubtainium" And then next month....repeat. They used to really do some critical evaluations, like what makes a bike great, the physics of riding, the materials, the tires, the flex of the frame for various body shapes and weights. I suppose that got boring, and then manufactures stopped advertising in this journal because they panned their products.
You can still sort of tell what bikes they like, but its much much harder. The rest of the stuff is puff pieces that read like manufacturer's promotion literature. TI seatposts add 10% to your speed rating! TI sprocket bolts lighten your wallet 20% for faster rides to the ATM!
Come On! Most of us could get by with lightening "the frame" by 10 lbs by eating sensibly and riding more, (Reading about it less!) On the other hand if you stuff the magazine inside your shirt it's a good wind break.
35 of 36 people found the following review helpful.
terrible magazine
By Johnny99
During the 1970s, Bicycling was a great magazine with lots of in-depth articles about bike tours, bike racing, and bicycle technology. The magazine zoomed downhill through the 1990s into the worthless rag that it is now. The articles in the current version of the magazine are very superficial and lifeless. Many are thinly veiled press releases from various advertisers. If you really want to learn about road bicycles and bicycling, a much better magazineis *CyclingPlus*. For mountain biking, try *Bike* or *Dirt Rag*.
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