More retro in this months MBUK

[Neil G]

Sounds like the usual MBUK fodder...IMO not worth wiping your arse with

 

[Agency_Scum]

....and that @rse is full of splinters from sitting on the fence so much. Come on Neil, tell us what you really think.

( grabs coat and jumps out of window, giggling )

 

[legrandefromage]

Haven't read it since the early 2000s , the mrs bought an issue a year or 2 ago and as I was putting it in the bin flicked through the pages , I wasn't missing much .

Print media is dying on it's arse . Who wants to wait a month for something that is just a massively edited opinion about something we can all find on the interweb anyway .

Online content has been the way forward for a long time .

''...print is dead...''

 

[Anthony]

A magazine is a device designed to get people to look at adverts. Adverts are for expensive new things which claim to be better than old things.

Say a magazine's content said 'old things work well, and are cooler than new things' or 'old secondhand things offer way better value for money than new things'.

Both would be true, but they wouldn't attract the kind of reader that the advertisers were interested in. So they wouldn't place adverts in that magazine. That's all there is to it. Magazines can't afford to big up retro.

 

[kaiser]

MBUK has surprised me the few issues I've picked up, I can't see any other mag covering the diversity it does. Too broad a spectrum for me but I reckon a fair representation of British mountain biking.

 

[MikeD]

Always makes me chuckle when people say that MBUK used to be good but is now juvenile nonsense. There was a letter in Issue 3 expressing essentially that sentiment

 

[Augustus]

Always makes me chuckle when people say that MBUK used to be good but is now juvenile nonsense. There was a letter in Issue 3 expressing essentially that sentiment

Yeah, let's not forget that when most of us loved MBUK that we consider the halcyon days, we were in fact yoot'ful, if not juvenile.




I feel sorry for this generation. Just look at 'Skins'. (but I think they like it, so that's what matters).

I remember my dad telling me (in 1987) my generation were being cheated by the cult of the Remix.

 

[Neil G]

....and that @rse is full of splinters from sitting on the fence so much. Come on Neil, tell us what you really think.

( grabs coat and jumps out of window, giggling )

lol

Magazines have to change to reflect current attitudes/trends but it's got very bad over the years.

Picked a copy up the other day and it had an piece about Chris Smith building trails...I mean whatever next!!!!! lol

 

[MikeD]

Yeah, it's full of nonsense now, not like the good old days of, er, riding in tin mines or out of planes ;-)

 

[Neil G]

Definately a reflection of the sport today as well...BITD there wasn't really such a thing as freeride or DJ...we just hucked off stuff on XC bikes

Seem to be too many freeloaders though in magazines using other people's spots without asking permission or giving locals recognition.