Comments on: The Joy of Filth – Issue 53 Extras (Premier Content)

By: ChrisS

ChrisS — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:11:35 +0000

Actually went back and had another look at the mag again over the weekend, decided I wasn’t very interested in much of it….. so cancelled my subscription. Thanks Mark for helping me make my mind up, might never have gotten around to it otherwise.

By: ChrisS

ChrisS — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:40:53 +0000

Sure, it probably won’t be for a few weeks though, when I glanced at it the other day it looked like there were rather a lot of long words. I don’t like long words – they make my head feel funny. So you’ll have to wait whilst I cut them all out with my Bob the Builder scissors. If you’d like a review of the article sooner could you send me a version that has all the big words replaced with smaller ones?
Thanks in advance.

By: no_eyed_deer

no_eyed_deer — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:31:28 +0000

I loved Mike Ferrentino (sp.?) – I always do! And that one about the courier stuff in London – an article simultaneously managing to condense everything about living a life of cycling and the weird idiosyncrasies of London into one bemusing article. The guy who does that is consistently good value. The Kielder stuff was fairly inspirational too… I think I might actually give that event a go now! The carbon bikes bit was good for drooling over. Same comments about Ed-O’s piece. If I was MTB-ing for a living I’d use XTR all year round too, for sure..

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:20:52 +0000

When you’ve read the Shaun Palmer article could you let us know what you think?

By: ChrisS

ChrisS — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:12:26 +0000

Haven’t read most of it yet (which probably isn’t a good sign). Liked the jacket group test and Steve Pete’s bike porn. The Shaun Palmer article might be good although there was a similar piece in DIRT recently which was great, so dunno. The keilder 100 article was okay, although oddly not as compelling as reading the first hand accounts on the forum.
Sorry.

By: Nig E5

Nig E5 — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:42:21 +0000

I agree with all off the above, A least it was better than the racing issue.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:06:05 +0000

What part of the mag did you like?

By: ChrisS

ChrisS — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:57:45 +0000

LOL, not as bad as Ed-O’s piece, the gist of which was “I get lots of free bling kit so I might as well ride it in the mud, who cares if it gets knackered, someone will send me some more for free shortly”

By: no_eyed_deer

no_eyed_deer — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:26:14 +0000

Sorry to sound cranky guys, as I do so love the brilliance of ST when it hits the spot, but sometimes it falls wide of the mark. This ‘Joy of Filth’ article was singularly the most lacklustre part of issue 53 by far. It was so chok-full of nausiating bombastic hubris it almost made me feel like never ever riding a bike again. So many writers had evidently been bouyed up by the pitch, which probably went somthing like: ‘Right, we need you to write 200 wrds to convince the lazy people that read our magazine that riding through winter is a good idea.’. So off they all went and did exactly that, each one with the same ‘Just get out there and DO IT’-type moronic statements, which were lacking in humor, insight or originality. The article was about as interesting as watching a Mr Motivator fitness video. Riding in the wet and grime of winter is fun – and riding in the dry and dust of summer is fun too. End of story. I don’t need convincing. It’s called mountain biking.