I quite like Jonseys ramblings, when the test is readable anyway.
Really struggling with ST at the moment, way too much ‘meeehhhhhh’ and “you should feel sorry for us, sometimes we have to go out riding when we don’t want to”, or “another trade show with bike demo’s somewhere hot and sunny, we’re bored of it” moaning. Seriosuly, if you hate it that much get a real* job. There’s an almost inverse proportionality between my desire to read an article and the distance the author is from Todmoren, some of them seem to have fallen out of love with mountainbiking (hence the plethora of stuff about CX, road bikes or camping) or journalism or both and maybe need a new challenge. And a few of the reviews were a bit , “why?”, surely the avreage ST reader already knows about or has a dropper post, or SRAM XX1, or XTR. Whereas frames, suspension, and tyres maybe are of more interest to the demographic?
Having said that I’ve not really read much of the UK bike mags for a while now. I think after ~12 years of mountainbiking I’ve probably read most permutations of most types of articles, even travel articles about some wierd out of the way place all seem familiar.
*journalism is a real job, bike riding is an income stream for a lucky few.