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  • Your magazine history
  • beej
    Full Member

    Random thought while out on a ride – I was trying to remember all the magazines I’ve bought regularly over the years.

    The Beano (aged 6-9)
    Shoot (I think, some football mag anyway, 9-12)
    Scale Modeller (10-13)
    White Dwarf (13-16)
    RC Car (not sure of exact title, about 15-16)
    Keyboard (started playing them, 18-23)
    Car (23-30)
    Neon (Short lived film magazine, 25-29)
    Hotdog (Short lived film magazine, 30-35)
    Wired UK (32-35)
    Evo (29-35)
    What Mountain Bike (30-38)
    Singletrack (33-now)
    Procycling (41-now)
    Cyclist (43-now)

    Not entirely sure what that says, apart from I like magazines.

    What have you got?

    gobuchul
    Free Member

    Plenty by PRP. 🙂

    binners
    Full Member

    Razzle
    Singletrack

    SaxonRider
    Full Member

    Got a National Geographic publication as a kid called ‘Ranger Rick’ followed by its more grown-up version, called ‘World’. But my dad always subscribed to the proper National Geographic, and I was a pretty devout reader of that from about the age of eight until my late teen years.

    As a pretty serious kid, I also got my parents to subscribe to Time Magazine for me, and would periodically buy the Canadian equivalent, Macleans.

    Otherwise, there was a North American magazine called ‘European Car’ that I loved getting in the late 1990s, until moving to the UK in 2003.

    I also used to regularly buy ‘Men’s Health’ and ‘MBR’, along with less frequent purchases of Singletrackworld, although STW is the only magazine I buy now.

    edlong
    Free Member

    The relaunched Eagle comic – early 80s
    Battle (then became Battle Action Force) – also early 80s
    Combat & Survival – late 80s (collected the whole 100 edition partwork)
    Street Machine (custom cars, hot rods, etc) – mid / late 80s
    Pretentious literary bollocks (various) – early 90s (at university)
    NME – early 90s
    Select – 90s when there was a decent free tape on the cover
    Practical Classics / sundry classic car type magazines – early 90s to now
    Mini World – Early 90s
    VW World (or something like that) – mid 90s
    Time Out (London) – late 90s
    BBC Good Food Magazine – early 00s to now
    MBR – late 00s to date
    Singletrack – early 201x (not sure if we’ve named this decade yet?) to date
    Other mountain bike magazines if going for a long train trip and / or the cover-mounted free gift seemed worth having.
    Practical Motorhome and others of its ilk – 2009 to 2014

    llama
    Full Member

    White Dwarf (80s)
    Kerrang (80s)
    2000AD (80s 90s)
    Viz (90s)
    Bicycle Action (80s)
    MBR (00s)
    ST (00s 10s)
    VW Bus (10s)

    senorj
    Full Member

    Beano , Shoot , Look-In , Sounds , NME , Melody Maker ,Viz ,Select , Loaded(early doors) , Time Out and STW of late.
    Oh and someone used to leave Club in a back lane on my paperound! Thanks someone.

    Harry_the_Spider
    Full Member

    2000AD
    NME
    Loaded
    Viz
    MBR
    Schwanger Horse
    STW

    zinaru
    Free Member

    the wire
    viz
    singletrack

    sometimes during the same jobby…

    Keva
    Free Member

    Beano
    Shoot
    stuff we used to find lying around in hedges
    your computer
    autocar
    Q music
    astronomy now
    MBR
    BBC Focus
    national geographic

    don’t think I’ve ever bought a copy of STW!

    globalti
    Free Member

    Bike.
    Vertical.
    Singletrack.
    Cyclist.

    That’s all.

    dannyh
    Free Member

    binners – Member

    Razzle
    Singletrack

    But were you as prominent on the forum at Razzle?

    winston
    Free Member

    Look and Learn (not my choice!)
    Boards
    Bicycle Action
    MTB Pro
    Fallline
    Singletrack
    Yachting Monthly
    Classic Boat

    rocketman
    Free Member

    bike magazine in the 70s IIRC it was 35p
    SuperBike
    Which Bike?
    Motorcycle Mechanics

    kindof stopped after that

    Yak
    Full Member

    Beano
    Angling Times
    Climber
    On The Edge
    Singletrack

    perchypanther
    Free Member

    Peoples Friend

    howsyourdad1
    Free Member

    Beano
    Computer and Video Games
    St Format (Atari magazine)
    Shoot
    90minutes
    Focus (science mag i think? Thanks Grandad)
    Mbuk
    NME
    Dirt
    Private Eye
    WSC
    Viz when i go to airports.
    Singletrack
    Bicycling

    all this punctuated by jazz mags here and there (not at airports)

    maxray
    Free Member

    Dandy
    Shoot
    Crash -speccy Mag
    Toxic
    Marshall Law Superhero Hunter
    2000AD
    White Dwarf
    Sea Angler
    Metal Hammer
    MBUK
    WMB
    Superbike
    Singletrack
    Motorcycle News
    Motorcycle Sport and Leisure
    The Ride
    Boneshaker

    beej
    Full Member

    Maxray/Yak’s reminded me of another – Angling Times when I was about 11 or 12.

    BillMC
    Full Member

    Singletrack
    New Statesman
    Private Eye
    Sadly I never see Viz these days

    monkeysfeet
    Free Member

    The Eagle
    2000Ad
    RAD

    bikebouy
    Free Member

    Ohh, good thread.. casts my mind back… the earliest was Sailing World, a US publication that I started to get around 16yrs old, before that nowt.

    Not really in order, but you get the jist..
    Sailing World
    Yachts and Yachting
    Windsurf
    Boards
    Yachting World
    Rouleur
    Mondial
    Peloton
    Economist
    IO
    Trail Running

    howsyourdad1
    Free Member

    Good shout on Crash the spectrum mag

    saxabar
    Free Member

    Dandy/Beano
    White Dwarf
    MixMag (big life changes at this point!)
    NME
    The Face
    The Economist
    STW
    Dirt
    Wired
    GQ

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