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Doddy in MBUK Alps feature. "Nailing the trails"......let go of the tree!!!
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Posted 1 year ago #
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It's just a magazine. Doddy is just a bloke. Why are people getting so excited?
If you don't like something, I presume you don't buy it, so why bother taking the time to whinge about it?
All the magazines (including MTB ones) have their target readers clearly defined, and judging by the stuff I read on this board (which to be fair, probably only represents less than 1% of STW's readership, just the interwebbos) MBUK isn't aimed at making you happy.
I buy most mags each month (spend too much time sat on planes with no wifi ;)) and I get something different out of all of them. I can't say that there are many people who write for MTB magazines that would annoy me so much as to make me come on a website and publically have a moan about them. Some of my colleagues in my own office however, now that's a different story
MBUK - light reading, good for new kit, good for local scene info
STW - some decent articles
MBR - good trail guides and reviews
Dirt - pretty pictures that make me want to ridePosted 1 year ago # -
Proper LOL at that picture gravity-slave, if you flip it up the right way he's actually going slightly up hill lol.
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Was in the cafe at the top of Nevis Range a few years back when the world cups were on, the MBUK lot were walking past me as I was carrying my food on a tray and one shoved the other one into me, twice, I put my tray on the nearest table to
smackreprimand him and they scarpered, Doddy just looked embarassed to be honest.The mag is pretty crap though. I think it's aimed more at the younger end / DH market nowadays.
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W(who)TF is Doddy? Am I missing out on something...I haven't bought MBUK for quite a while now but never heard of this Doddy character....I'm presuming its not this one?:
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Back in the day when my work was of interest to the mtb press, I spoke to and met reps from pretty much all the mags and web-sites. They all seemed like reasonable people, just doing their jobs, often against pretty tight deadlines which could lead to any of them being a bit, er, scratchy if it was approaching press day.
Although I do get the feeling Doddy wouldn't get so muck stick if he was called Pete, Steve or even Tarquin (for the STW'ers) rather than Doddy.......
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gravity slave, you made me lol epicly
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I actually like MBUK now (apart from the Rebholz articles), I always get the impression that the writers know what they are talking about and can ride. Slagging off someone like that just seems like extreme jealousy to me, the guy gets paid to ride bikes and seems to do that pretty well.
Maybe he has stopped so that the rider in front gets off the ladder before he starts down.
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Tim Brooke Taylor
Love it!
But stop picking on the poor guy, journalists have feelings too you know.
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Yeah, I'm going to apologise now, sorry Doddy, I don't know you, If I did, I still wouldn't be rude about you on a public forum.
I'm not even going to have one final wisecrack....
*bites tongue and walks away*
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jenbe - Member
"also their free tyre levers were shit!"
They were. You could always ask for your money back.
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I just thought it was a funny photo. Of all the possible photo opportunities there must have been on that spiral boardwalk????
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