BiKE magazine

I think my subscription has lapsed. Even so, it's a bit late this
month - or has it just bypassed Carlisle?

 

It *is* late, yes.

 

Using the Hitch Hiker's Guide interpretation...

Slartibartfast: "Hurry up Earthman, or you'll be late."
Arthur Dent: "Late? What for?"
S: "What's your name Earthman?"
AD: "Dent, Arthur Dent"
S: "Late, as in the late Dent Arthur Dent - its a kind of threat"

Does this mean that Bike magazine is no more, or are you simply using
"late" to refer to a delay in publication?

 

Mine arrived 5 minutes ago courtesy of Royal Mail.

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jeremy
'02 Fazer 600 in blue
_______________________________________
jeremy0505 at gmail.com

 

I doubt it means it's no more... It's the only one I actually like to read.

Got Ride (again - I really must learn) the other day and it's still wanky,
"you must ride like a puff dressed for nuclear fallout" crap. Flicked
straight through it in 10 minutes and was only interested in the article on
all weather clothing and even that wasn't worth reading.

Lesson is I must not succumb to buying (yet more) crap.

 

What do you know that we don't? I hope Dan Walsh is still going.

 

DR says...

Going where?

 

Somewhere. Anywhere except the morgue, is what I meant. Well you
know it too.

 

Three staffers being made redundant on that mag, apparently. Including
the editor.

 

Whatever happened to MCN Sport? I know it was only a quarterly, or
whatever, but it was a bloody good read, and barely deserved being
associated with MCN. I guess the market is rather depressed; that
would explain the "3 issues for £1" sub offer that TWO was pushing
recently, as well as other magazines doing the promotional goodies
thing and trying to snare subscribers.

 

I presume this is related to quality rather than a need to cut costs?

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jeremy
'02 Fazer 600 in blue
_______________________________________
jeremy0505 at gmail.com

 

They published a letter from him the other month, which basically said
"Sorry, sorry, I can't hack this, I've lost the plot etc".

 

I remember that. Good luck to him; if only more people had that
honesty...

 

Bear says...

In his own special place.

 

No idea, but it *is* shite and it *did* have an editorial staff of 12.

 

That made me laugh like a drain, actually.

 

Bear says...

Last in read he was in Bolivia or somewhere thereabouts.

 

Buenos Aires, IIRC.

 

South America somewhere... Maybe.

He was bound to lose the plot again though.

His African adventure was what made me do my Aus trip. Esp when, early on,
he had a go at the bikers who always *say* they'll have a big adventure and
then don't.

Imagine the distress when I settled onto my Qantas 747, just off from
Heathrow with 23 hours flying time ahead, in the knowledge that I was about
to ride over 10,000kms in 20-odd days on tarmas, dirt and desert, on my own
'just to prove him wrong.... And I turned to the Dan Walsh bit and he
'fessed up that the adventure wasn't worth it really and he'd been wrong and
it was just as good to dream - you didn't actually have to carry out the
promise.... Bastard.

But a damn funny and inspiring bastard.

Dave

 

Heartless ****. The poor sod has been drinking his way through the Americas
for our amusement, and all you can do is chortle when he comes a cropper...