So, Issue 1 came in October didn't it?
6 issues a year it says on their website....
Wheres issue 2?
Due out February iirc.
so is it 3 issues a year?
"The next issue is then due out in late Feb/early Mar 2010. After that Privateer will be published 6 times a year"
From the Privateer website.
aah,
note to self: stop skimming web pages, read them properly
Your not the first Warton.
how did folks find the 1st issue? worth punting £9 on? i know there was an initial offer but that seems to have finished. Don't have a local stockist sadly but recently read first copy o rouleur and was impressed with the writing (and pics)
Privateer - content not as good as Rouleur. But it looks nice.
But, Rouleur is nigh on 22 issues old, so it's had a chance to settle in, and road always seems to attract more writers.
I hope Privateer establishes itself and captures the right thing about MTBing, whatever that may be.
I'd agree with ourmaninthenorth. The first issue was quite interesting, but I wasn't blown away by it. Hopefully it will improve a little as it finds its feet. I'll probably get the next issue at some point.
cheers for that, to be expected i guess and had heard similar from other folk. i shall try and find some non extortionate copies of rouleur...
I wasn't too impressed when I received my 'free' copy. The pics looked boring and the articles didn't make the mag stand out from the bunch. I wouldn't have bought it, especially for £9.
However, I got around to reading it about 6 weeks later and thoroughly enjoyed it. I'll happily let my subscription go through.
I'm of the opposite opinion to the above, though. I thought that the writing in the only copy of Rouleur I've got was pretty poor. I didn't buy another copy, despite reading pretty much any book written about road racing. Rouleur seemed to have too many of the writers I find tedious. (Graham Fife stands out in this, in my very personal opinion of course!)
horses for courses i guess, maybe ill pick up a privateer and have a look