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Singletrack Mag - Lightweight Issue AGAIN (Rant content)
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Singletrack is clearly the best mtb specific mag and web forum (IMO) but not beyond criticism. Nice to see a quick apology for a knee jerk overreaction though.
Although I'm thinking a forfeit should be in order!Posted 2 years ago # -
I do get cross at these types of threads knowing just how hard every single member of our staff has worked on this issue in particular.
The only person who cares if you worked hard is your mum.
It's the result that matters. I stopped subscribing a few months ago. People riding round gravel pits grumbling that their handlebars were 3mm too narrow.
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Mark , congratulations on expressing your feelings,what we need is a lot more of this, the customer isnt always right, and the customer has the choice to buy or not buy the magazine, i buy it to support this forum, and for the banter, sometimes im banned or warned but i still come back as do a lot more.
You apologised, and some dont accept your apology, tough on them,its not as if youver stole their bike or chucked it under a road roller,you expressed your opinion an opinion some of us hold about each other, but we still find good things to read,and banter to enjoy with each other.
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I love this magazine. I think it is excellent. If you want lots of reviews, then you should think about subscribing to What Mountain Bike- that's what they do, and they're pretty good at it. I've always thought that Singletrack was about something else, things like great articles from places around world that I'll probably never get a chance go to and pushing your riding beyond just a couple of hours at you're local trails to far more adventurous goals- like bivvying in the Canadian Rockies or the Welsh mountains in the depths of winter (to reference the the last, apparently 'thin' issue). As well as well, dare I say it, thought provoking columns! Thought provoking! In an MTB magazine! Maybe that's just a bit too much for some
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The only person who cares if you worked hard is your mum.
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Alright, I got bored at the bottom of page 2, I like the mag, already dipped into this months issue and there are couple of things arleady I want to sit down and properly read. It does feel a bit lightweight but not from a content perspective. I subscribe to MBR, WMB & ST. WMB is likely to get canned when I can be bothered, MBR would be next (If I had to, quite like it) and ST would be the one I held onto, I like the lifestyle articles, the photos and the whole feel of the mag. If you don't like it, don't buy it. I can't say it's massively gone down hill in the last 12 months.
Oh well the internet's for people who don't actually participate in the real world to have a go at those that do I suppose.
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Recent issues aren't as interesting as those from a few years back though.
Reminds me of the old Punch tagline
"Not as interesting as it used to be", since 1841.
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Also nice to see its pushing the gender thing with the clothing article and putting Aliegh (Phwoarrr!!)on the main page of the Quants article
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OK, maybe a bit of a kneejerk reaction but if someone publicly criticised your work on a forum on a Friday night you'd react the same, especially if it's YOUR company that you built from scratch, that you've put years of your life and a lot of your money into.
I dunno, I really don't reckon I would. As mentioned, if it was an employee doing that, in most companies they would probably be sacked.
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People riding round gravel pits grumbling that their handlebars were 3mm too narrow.
harsh, but fair
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Maybe turn it into a mag feature?
Jamie, you are fast becoming my favourite STWer.
However, I have just realised how gay that sounds, and have decided to retract said comment.
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For various reasons, I bought ALL the mtb mags this month, and Singletrack has more worth reading in it than any of the others this month. Feels less like flicking through the Argos catalogue than the others. The fact that it's "thinner" rather than losing the content amongst pages and pages of ads is a positive for me. Oh, the others still had things I wanted to read in them, but Singletrack has far far more, and did last month as well.
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i havent read the whole thread or magazine but it looks pretty good ,its quality not quantity remember, why have loads of average articles like in mbuk etc instead of a few really good ones in singletrack.
Stop whinging
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LOL! To see people with passion inspires me, so the ranting makes it more likely that I'll subscribe.
Posted 2 years ago # -
the pissy-pants editors put their sperm-covered hands over their ears
maybe turn it into a mag feature?
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Love the mag on the whole but Apology or not he has made one hell of a professional error. In Any profesion that would incur serious punishment. I would except an apology in the next issue about 16 page's should shut the wingers up.
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Ive not read any of the 5 pages- what was said?
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"You're rubbish"
"No we're not - you're rubbish, oops, sorry, but we tried really hard, you try doing it better"Posted 2 years ago # -
bring back hanging I say... Mark is obviously a deviant and dangerous lunatic to boot.. evil
unprofessionalism is always ALWAYS a sign of much deeper and darker things..
I'm sick of the whole sinister and sordid affair..
horifficPosted 2 years ago # -
Blah blah blah....i say fair play to Mark.
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if you're after a light weight read, try the latest MBUK. I seen NEXT catalogues with more non-ad content
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Well people can blow air kisses up Mark's arse all day long,but I still think the mag's poor this month & shall be cancelling my subscription in the very near future.Nothing to do with his rant on what he thought was his FB page(LOL,very sad),more to do with Mark giving me the number to phone so I didn't have to search for it...
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I got it the same day as a free chain reaction marathon booklet arrived. TBH i ive had more reading out of the free panflet than i have from the mag.
Rubbish, sorry it just is.Posted 2 years ago # -
Couldn't post on here before for some reason so my thoughts here:
http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/re-the-lightweight-issue-rant-thread-
Posted 2 years ago # -
I really, really didn't like Tim's chopped off finger though - page 44.
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How the heck did he do that???
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Cut it on Mark's tongue?
Oooh, that's sharp!
Posted 2 years ago # -
Twitter is the biggest 'up your ass crap' I've ever seen. I imagine you need a Blackberry and a specific model at that to feel 'fitted in to the wavelength' whilst updating?
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The next issue should have a free bit of titanium with it for everyone to polish. Happy days
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Eddie fiola - great name, for those that remember that far back
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How the heck did he do that???
Cleaning his disc rotas.
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What was he cleaning his disc rotas with?
an angle grinder?Posted 2 years ago # -
Ouch!!!
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What was he cleaning his disc rotas with?
an angle grinder?His fingers.
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