Too much supercilious sneering for my tastes.
Dropped it about 5 years ago - think it was a jibe about singlespeeds.
It's been several years since I've picked up a copy, but I always found MBR to be fairly dull and boring. The word beige sums it up for me
When I first started riding I lapped up all the gear reviews and bike reviews, but after 12 years I have all the gear and bikes I could ever need. I would like more bikes, but I will go into a bike shop if I ever get one. Is MBR aimed at newcomers and fairly newcomers?
as a recent subscriber to singletrack I really enjoyed my first issue. I had been subscribing to wmb/mbr (flipping the two periodically over the years). Singletrack actually took me more than an hour to read, had some interesting articles and the bike test was refreshing. Liked the fact that they said all three bikes in their main test (rockhopper, zaskar and marley) had merit depending on what you were looking for rather than just slating them.
