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I used to adore reading my dad's How it Works magazines. They were a part-work from Marshall Cavendish, running from a-z over 84 issues. I remember one cover featured the APT "leaning train."

I used to buy Airgun World and dream of owning a Webley Vulcan...

I had to hide my stash as if they were pron as my mum was very anti-airguns. To be fair though, her friend's son had lost his right eye due to airgun misuse.


 
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I still have every issue of How it works, except 1. How annoying is that !!!

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Except one issue, not missing issue 1.

I also loved 2000AD as a kid too.


 
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Fiesta


 
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[s]jugs[/s] MBUK.


 
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The pr0n ones I found in a bush at the park


 
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Look and Learn, brilliant magazine, had stories in, how things work, fantastic cutaway drawings...
I used to read mine over and over, nothing like it now, sadly. 🙁


 
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Health & Efficiency. It was my brother's.


 
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Sky magazine. Porn for the under 18s. Naked Kylie. It was great! 🙂


 
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2000AD & the soft porn that was Loaded


 
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I used to love The Unexplained. As a kid I was fascinated that there was all this "stuff" out there, and it gave me a good grounding as an adult in dealing critically with people who talk bobbins.


 
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Victor, then Superbike, for similar reasons to some above.


 
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Aside from pr0n I used to love Street Machine, Custom Car, BMX Bi-Weekly and BMX Action Bike


 
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Practical Photography - or how to take pics of Jugs, that and F1 weekly


 
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Loaded & 2000AD


 
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Eagle. I wasn't the biggest fan of Dan Dare but Charley's War and Death Wish made me wait by the letter box for it every week.


 
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Amstrad Action

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lol Amstrad Action and trying to make the tapes work - we were the 6128 posh kids but couldn't justify the cost of ordering the disc.


 
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My father's copies of Flight International.

Especially the cutaways.
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Used to buy MBUK a lot when I was a kid, got my first mountain bike off he back of one of their reviews (Giant Coldrock)

Later I'm ashamed to say I turned to Maxx Power..briefly.


 
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Oh, I forgot about RAD magazine from my skating days.

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Speed and Power when I was young
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Electronics Today International and Cars and Car Conversion when I was older
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I had the first 120 issues of Take Off - a weekly aircraft magazine. I also had a large number of the early MBUK's.


 
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Shoot magazine,

It was about football (honest).


 
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Dirt Bike
Thrasher (if you could ever track it down)
Surfer
TMX News
Car and Car Conversion
Motorsport Weekly
Autosport
Bike


 
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Electronics Today International

I've got a copy of "Computing Today" on my desk at work, from 1982. It's great for blowing the minds of the junior engineers. Centre spread is a two-page advert for the Osborne 1, showing a woman walking jauntily along with her £1250 portable computer, weighing just 24lbs (the same as three 2L bottles of pop).


 
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Anything found in a hedge

24lbs (the same as three 2L bottles of pop).

FAIL!


 
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Eagle. I wasn't the biggest fan of Dan Dare but Charley's War and Death Wish made me wait by the letter box for it every week.

+1 My Dad and I used to fight over who would read it first.


 
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White Dwarf, Motor Sport and 2000AD.


 
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weighing just 24lbs (the same as [s]three 2L bottles of pop)[/s] [b]Every 160mm bike on STW[/b].

FIFY


 
Posted : 09/01/2014 2:36 pm
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2000AD

and Mayfair

and Razzle

And Fiesta

And Whitehouse

and....


 
Posted : 09/01/2014 2:41 pm
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[i]200AD[/i] (nbt ninja edited!) 😛

Is that the one about the Roman Empire? 😉

I had this from Issue 1. Til Mum chucked em out 🙁

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lifetime..

victor.. waiting at the letter box every sat morning..

2000ad ( still get it..)

custom car then CCC then rallysport, MN , autosport

mountain bike action then MBUK

TMX.. classic bike
singletrack


 
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FAIL!

I [i]thought [/i]that didn't sound right, dunno quite what happened there. Five bottles.


 
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and of course, every wednesday on the way to school:

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changed my life, it did.


 
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NME and Melody Maker - but only in the days when they had CD's sometimes - still have some


 
Posted : 09/01/2014 2:56 pm
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MTB Pro then MBUK.
Fast Bikes.
Usual array of lads mags, Loaded was the obvious favourite.
NME or Q as well.


 
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MBUK & Kerrang!


 
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my friend had every copy of 2000AD so i didnt need to buy it!!
i spent my money on Autocar, top gear, fourfourtwo, 90 minutes. as i got older i then "upgraded to stuff like FHM but this was very shortlived.
i had a huge bike mag collection consisting of MBR (1st issue - 2011), MBUK (1996 - 2011), What Mountain Bike (1st issue - 2009), Mountain Bike Action (1997 - 2007) and of course Singletrack (1st issue - 2011).
when we moved house 2 years ago my wife made me realise that there wouldnt be any space for them in the new house so i ended up binning the lot of them.
my music mag collection mainly consisted of Knowledge and ATM magazine (both 1997 - 2010).

i really wish i'd kept some of the more memorable ones like the 1st issues!!


 
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Kerrang, Bike, classic bike, angling times 😉 And copies of my dads amateur photographer for all the waps 🙂


 
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Bicycle Action
2000AD


 
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BMX Bi Weekly, 🙂 now that is niche

Kerrang, I always remember it was a challenge to scrape the money together, but always a treat to go and collect it from the paper shop.


 
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