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Ignoring the content for a second: Is it me or is the new MBR the dullest looking magazine you have ever seen? I am talking about aesthetic appeal, and flicking through it the other day almost sent me to sleep, in WHSmiths.
There is aboslutely nothing about it that makes it standout on the shelf. They need to shoot their design department, me thinks.
Dunno I stopped buying bike mags except for the odd cycling weekly and cycling plus.
Whta MBR need is some giveaway flipflops like mbuk did!
I dont buy many magazines but usually end up with MBUK because it covers a bit of everything. The MBRs these days just look like journals for accountants.
i like the free stuff but you don't get much theses days
Its tragic. In this month's big feature, they drove for hours to two random places with rubbish riding, moaned about it for several pages and printed the route maps. WTF!
Is it that time of month again...
what time of month?
Only get MBR 'cuz we need something to get with all the Tesco Clubcard points we get! (Free subscription.)
I didnt want to start a discussion on the contents of the magazine. I was just making a point that they don't help themselves with their graphic design.
Bring back Keith Simpson. He was mad but made it look nice.
yerp, they are a million miles away from Dirt in terms of design. (and say 350,000 miles from ST i suppose)
My dentist's has those magazines in the waiting room with stickers on them saying they are provided by some company or other that supplies inoffensive magazines for anxious people in waiting rooms. (I know, who would have thought there was a market for that?!) Anyway, MBR looks like one of those magazines, just about bikes rather than golf or center parcs.
I know what you mean Mikey, it's like visual mogadon.
Combine that with their impenetrable bike reviews and you've got the perfect cure for insomnia.
Funny, my other half works in design and publishing. She's never liked any of my cycling mags but she's particularly vocal about Singletrack (from a layout/presentation point of view).
Haven't seen the latest, I get them 2nd hand a month later from the bro-in-law. I also get most of the others 2nd hand and have to admit, if I was to buy one, it would probably be MBR, sorry. And this is from someone who really really didn't like the Editor Kitchy (or whatever his name) from his old mag job with Trail (outdoors mag), I won't bore you with the reasons.
I wouldn't say any of them were perfect, but MBR has to win the John Major prize for dullness.
At least the others are attention grabbing.
MBR looks like most volume mags in its look/style, in contrast Singletrack seems out on a limb and looks like its dropped out of 1982 seeming almost anti-design in its overall feel.
What's 'What MTB' like nowadays?
its mbuk for trail bikes and seems like a bike catalogue aimed at beginners
WhatMTB IMO went very sort of marathon XC orientated a year ago or so. It's all very Lycra positioned. Diet, fitness, event/marathon, it seemed to me to be more for all those people who do the lightweight XC type competition stuff. I say mostly, because they still try to cater a bit for the other stuff (dare I say it...All Mountain), but generally it seems to be for the people who take comps seriously and enter them with a view to actually winning (rather than having a laff).
whatmtb always seems such a patronising read to me
WhatMTB IMO went very sort of marathon XC orientated a year ago or so. It's all very Lycra positioned. Diet, fitness, event/marathon, it seemed to me to be more for all those people who do the lightweight XC type competition stuff. I say mostly, because they still try to cater a bit for the other stuff (dare I say it...All Mountain), but generally it seems to be for the people who take comps seriously and enter them with a view to actually winning (rather than having a laff).
Might give it a go then..
Thats why I quite like MBUK, because it caters for virtually every type of riding and seems to live by the rule that its all about riding bikes in the end.
Looks more appealing than MBR too 
I agree as dull as dishwater,
the ride journal outsstanding
STW
Dirt
both great
Bike and dirt rag still ahve some intresting graphics
Content wise
The ride and STW are for me the most intresting I get Dirt every now and then, what mbuk and mbr no more.
HA HA....I must be well dull then 'cos I quite like MBR and have a subscription to it.....I did consider knocking it on the head a few weeks back, but will keep it going for a bit.
I must admit that this months 'dart throwing' article was utter drivel though.
I think most of their routes are pretty good, the reviews are reasonable and it's something to read when sat on the bog. Job done.
Perhaps I should see what else it out there - I occasionally buy MBUK and then immediately remember why I don't buy it more often.