reid@Glacier.ARPA (Brian Reid) (09/17/85)
For many years "Bicycling!" magazine was it. They dropped the exclamation point from their name a few years ago. Recently everybody who made the magazine any good quit. About a year ago the ex-"Bicycling" staff started a new magazine, based in the same city (Allentown, Pa). This magazine is "Bicycle Guide", and I have subscribed to it since day 1. The first few issues were a little weak; they hadn't gotten many advertisers yet. But this time around I let my subscription to "Bicycling" lapse. "Bicycle Guide" is now categorically better. They, too, may suffer the pangs of middle age that has killed many a magazine, but at the moment they are hot. Good technical information (not spun off into an expensive quarterly like the other leading brand), good reviews (when was the last time you saw "Bicycling" say anything negative about a product whose manufacturer bought advertising space in their magazine), good photos, good columns, etc. One more thing: "Bicycling" magazine is published by Rodale Press, the large health company that also publishes "Prevention" and "Organic gardening", sells books, seeds, and vitamins, etc. "Bicycle guide" is published by its editors--a classic startup. Subscriptions are $14.90 per year, write to PO Box 3713, Escondido CA 92025. Go for it! -- Brian Reid decwrl!glacier!reid Stanford reid@SU-Glacier.ARPA