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You expect me to buy a copy of that toilet paper to see a picture of Doddy, being Doddy?! 👿
only bought it because of the alps feature...it was in a sealed bag so couldn't flick through in sainsburys.
I surprised he let the photo make it to print
Take a picture and post it up? Otherwise Sainsbury's are going to have a whole load of opened copies of MBUK...
how do you post photos.....something i never could sort..
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Put it on your computer... upload it to a hosting site imageshack etc then paste the jpg address into here, with the IMH things either side..
Is he actually moving? The guy in front of him looks like he's leaning on the tree too! 😆
I was very disappointed in the issue tbh. But at least I have a natty chainstay protector (anyone want it?) and the MintSauce page was produced on time 😉
When all is said and done though, it seemed that much of it was just press release rehashed.
I'm getting a bit tired of MBUK. Miss Stevenson and Manley (where did he go?).
Only buy it for the sheep these days.
Actually, the trail centre guides are always good, love reading what Mr Ashton is up to and it's good to see which colours are currently fashionable so I know what to avoid.
The bike reviews are a bit bland, but oddly the group component reviews are often quite scathing - nice to see a bit of objectivity.
It's the same as it was back in the early 90's, but with shorter stems, more travel & less purple.
Bit like the rest of us then?
Come to think of it, I might just take out a subscription. 😀
MBUK is all about Doddy, it's rubbish! Stopped buying it.
i haven't bought (or looked at) MBUK in a couple of years now, but whatever you may think of doddy he can actually ride a bike fairly well (loads better than me and probably a good deal better than most of you too).
Whenever I buy it, I always find something that really makes me angry in it. Cliched toss phrasing, marketing bollocks and such. I am the wrong target audience at 38 though I guess
Haven't bought it since the day Doddy, Chris (smacked arse) Smith and Scott Beaumont were on the uplift at Cwm. Neither doddy or smith could be arsed to say hello or talk to anyone else all day and sat up front. Beaumont on the other hand was the perfect pro, sat with the masses, taking the time to talk to everyone and generally seemed happy to be riding bikes for a living.
I want to see this picture... But I don't want to buy MBUK...
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Here you go.
Ta very much!
I can only assume that it's like that bit in Tim Burton's Batman where he uses the cable out the Batmobile window to hook onto windows and go around corners faster...
Did that happen or did I just imagine it?
Is this the issue with the feature on Bristol trails in it?
I'm sorry but I don't see the issue with that piccy?
I wouldn't even be riding it, yet he may just be waiting for the other rider to finish so that he can get a good run through to the exit, or even if he had to steady himself, so fricken what!
Christ you must all be god like riders! 🙄
My sense of self-preservation kicks in way too early to even let me consider anything like that 😳 No Bristol Trails in this one.
doddy once offered to fight with me, because i was slaging of the shitty mag he scribbles some rubbish down for..lol.. Have you ever noticed that in the world of MBUK tress, and the horizon seem to bee at funny angles to make the riding seem a bit more hard core!
Ah mucho didums for all those for even giving a toss what someone else does or for that matter how they choose too do it.
Much like the way i'm caring even to comment on this, maybe i'm bias as Doddy complimented mine a Jambo's trail. 😉
Seriously though, some of you really....
Maybe the tree was lonely and he gave it a hug? I just think his anal sphincter started to twitch.
Looks like Doddy might need to call on the teaching skills of Jedi...
Did he have his socks pulled up to his knee caps as usual?
Haven't bought it since the day Doddy, Chris (smacked arse) Smith and Scott Beaumont were on the uplift at Cwm. Neither doddy or smith could be arsed to say hello or talk to anyone else all day and sat up front.
Guy Kesteven, on the otherhand, is a perfect gentleman and, turns up to dig at Stainburn.
Got to say that does look like a "stop for a moment then restart" tree lean not a Northwind-style "I'm going to die, better grab this tree" tree lean, all his body language says he's planning to restart. So maybe just making a gap which is sensible.
He seemed a decent enough feller when I bumped into them at glentress, but... Why would you go up to him and slag off the magazine he works for? Never mind being surprised at a negative reaction after? Why would you be surprised when he talks to his mates on an uplift? If he'd turned up and said "Hi I'm Doddy" chances are he'd be getting slagged on Teh Internetz for thinking he's a superstar because he writes for a magazine...
i was simply telling him that how biased the reviews were!
"i was slaging of the shitty mag he scribbles some rubbish down for"
the reviews are rubbish, the mag is rubbish in general, i don't care what others think, that mag puts people of riding!
Have you ever noticed that in the world of MBUK tress, and the horizon seem to bee at funny angles to make the riding seem a bit more hard core!
Although looking at the example photo above, if anything it's angled to make the run look flatter than it actually is...
How many years has he been there? I know I still bought it occasionally when he came along, but that seems like an age ago now! Fair play to him for making it work...
jenbe - Member
the reviews are rubbish, the mag is rubbish in general, i don't care what others think, that mag puts people of riding
Interestingly, many moons ago, MBUK actually made me cross the line from "I like to ride my bicycle just like any other young kid" to "I like mountain biking as a sport".
This was long before the internetz and Dirt/STW/MBR for that matter - early 1990s!!
Why would you be surprised when he talks to his mates on an uplift?
He didn't talk to anyone. Like it or not he represents the biggest mtb mag in the UK , if he worked for me I'd expect him to be a bit gracious and try to promote the sport, not act like he was too good to mix it with the commoners. Of all the people who are 'players' in the industry I have met he is the most ignorant , arrogant and aloof. Just my opinion but reason enough for me not to buy the monthly pile of adverts and self congratulatory toss that is mbuk.
though agree with xiphon for the power of it 'back in the day'.
Went to the Cycle Show at Excel a few years back and shared a table with Doddy having a coffee. Seemed a nice enough bloke and had a chat about this and that, certainly didn't seem aloof or bigheaded.
Suppose we all have good and bad days when we are not at our chattiest or feel like socialising.
He passed me when I had stopped by a trail waiting for a friend and asked if I was ok which was nice. I wouldn't expect him to go out of his way to talk to me on an uplift - why would I?!
xiphon - Member
jenbe - Member
the reviews are rubbish, the mag is rubbish in general, i don't care what others think, that mag puts people of riding
Interestingly, many moons ago, MBUK actually made me cross the line from "I like to ride my bicycle just like any other young kid" to "I like mountain biking as a sport".This was long before the internetz and Dirt/STW/MBR for that matter - early 1990s!!
Yea i used to read it then, it was much better, but last time i read it it told me i needed three bikes to have a good time! Nuff said!
Back in the day, all-mountain, freeride, trail riding, etc didn't exist (marketing people hadn't thought of it yet).
The articles would feature 'pros' doing DH / XC on more-or-less the same bikes (Zaskars with Judy DHs/Judy XCs.... and a DCD for the chain!).
I agree these days they advise you that you need:
1 for Trail Centres (6x6).
1 for XC (lightweigh ht).
1 for DH (8 inch plus).
1 for DJ.
1 for 4X. etc.
that's pretty much the implicit advice of most of the members on this forum! 😮
i haven't read MBuk since that Jamie the punk kid was in it, is he still in it??
tbh, i would be holding that tree, probably with both hands and my eyes shut
I've always thought that Doddy looks like Boy George without the makeup
Punky Jamie went to Metal Hammer iirc. rawk!
Guy Kesteven, on the otherhand, is a perfect gentleman and, turns up to dig at Stainburn.
he's also good a firing fireworks at rival mag people at MM
-biased reviews
-complete drivel
-carp wanna be riders
-dismal writing style
-putting new riders off
-up themselves.
now remind me are you talking about mbuk staffs, stw posters or just 'mountain bikers' in general, cos i cant tell.
That wooden track represents everything that's wrong with "mountainbiking".
Guy Kesteven, on the otherhand, is a perfect gentleman
Second that, real nice chap, chatted to him and another MBUK'r at stainburn, he was an animal on that nicoli.
I've always thought that Doddy looks like [s]Boy George without the makeup[/s] Tim Brooke Taylor
FTFY
TBH - MBUK is better than STW mag. I really do not want to sit down with a mag and read an article about some journos going on holiday to slovakia. At least with MBUK the articles are short and sharp, reviews a plenty, just don't take it seriously!! BTW - good freebies with MBUK also!!
Only reason large number on here slate it is because its deemed to be cool to do so, in the same way that the "phat bike" bandwagon is and has been jumped upon by so many.
also their free tyre levers were shit!
Doddy always seems to get a hard time and it's just purely because he's in mag each month making him high profile.
He's a throughly nice bloke. Jenbe seems to have some issue with him but as almost everyone else whoose commented seems to have had a good experience when meeting him I think we can assume it might be a personality clash? You'd probably make me fairly grumpy if you wandered up and told me I was sh1t at my job too.
As for the photo - Doddy is a pretty amazing rider. Trust me, he ain't looking for a way to bail out in that shot.
Have to agree with RR - never read any of the 'bike trip in some far off place' article in STW, generally just read the reviews.
Don't know the fella, and I'm sure he's a very good rider... when I met him he was clutching an old copy of MBUK with himself on the cover (at the Drop Off) personally I thought that a little sad, but maybe that's just me...
o if you saw a mag with you on you wouldn't pick it up? what utter bollox
la la la lalalala lala la la la lala lalala la la la..
Doddy can ride a bike. End of. why does he always get questioned on stuff when out of all the mountain bike magazine journo folk.. theres not many out there that can do what he does on two wheels. Cant folk pick on someone else that is pretty lame on a bike? *Matt from STW not included as ive seen him ride at the aviemore euro ss champs and he too could show a lot of them a thing or two!
r_r I'm not in a mag every month... I don't work for a mag? Not really the same, is it?
martinxyz...
You've hit the nail on the head... Why do people pick on Doddy? What is it about him that engenders such disdain?
They all pale into insignificance when elbry slings his legs over the crossbar
Is it not about time for Mr Sandland to bask in the limelight again?
I would imagine that in that picture he is holding on to the tree to make things easier for the photographer, rather than because he's just had an attack of the Koalas.
It seems that most MTB journos are annoyingly good riders, as can be expected when you spend a lot of time on a bike. I rode with some guys from MBR during Megavalanche week the other year and they were clearly quite handy. Even someone as unassuming as Chipps has a fair turn of speed when he's trying.
I only thought the photo looked funny. Can't recall opening the can of worms 🙄
I don't know the guy but from the mag articles he seems preoccupied with his image/clothing/trends. So when a photo looks less than flattering (and doesn't show him getting rad with nar) it made me chuckle.
sc-xc - Member
They all pale into insignificance when elbry slings his legs over the crossbar
On the topic of gnar to the power of uber-rad...
I remember the issue when Doddy first started........hasn't he done well!
Is this still going?
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Glad i've been Id'ing Fungi and not wasting away my time grumbling about a magazine personality.
For a moment i thought i needed to get a life, now i know just how much sadder i could be.
As for the man himself, he must have something as his long term GF is extremely attractive as well as being a very nice lass.
Haha, I hate him because he gets to ride expensive bikes all over the world, when i'm stuck in wet n muddy blighty!
And the reason i don't buy MBUK, is the pure amount of ads in there now. Same with Dirt.
Bought my first copy of STW today, so will have a read of that when i'm on the plane tomorrow.
As a devoted STW'er, that photo is all wrong, a bike picture needs to show the bike in its natural enviroment. Does Doddy know nothing! he needs to get off that steed, get it showroom clean and get it photographed in his kitchen or propped up on his decking. Noooooooooooooob!
TBH - MBUK is better than STW mag. I really do not want to sit down with a mag and read an article about some journos going on holiday to slovakia. At least with MBUK the articles are short and sharp, reviews a plenty, just don't take it seriously!! BTW - good freebies with MBUK also!!
Only reason large number on here slate it is because its deemed to be cool to do so, in the same way that the "phat bike" bandwagon is and has been jumped upon by so many.
+50
I don't normally buy any of the mags but after recently getting a telling off on here for slagging STW and feeling a bit guilty for not buying it for years I thought I'd buy a couple of issues. Still dire GCSE pictures and design, same waffling stories about visiting chums and drinking whisky.
I bought MBUK too. Well I read about all the different disciplines in MTB, saw a couple of articles that made me want to ride my bike, some reasonable product reviews and got a thick glossy professional magazine for my money.
Guess which one I'll buy next time.
Well I've seen the MBUK lot ride too and they are pretty chuffin handy on a bike. Probably better than 99% of the XC "why do I need to get my wheels off the ground" cowardly mincing computer geeks that post on here. 😉
A friend of mine who has guided in France, Spain and Australia has ridden with Doddy a few times......
He's pretty good and from the stories I've heard his riding will put 99% of the people on here to shame
Do people not like him because he doesn't fit the STW profile of intellectual, arrogant, middle aged whingers?
STW profile of intellectual, [b]arrogant[/b], middle aged whingers
I suspect that only one of those three categories applies to the biggest whingers .
Highlighted, just for them 8)
Well you can't be talking about me so I'll carry on...
LOL
Sorry but another vote for MBUK. if you can get over the silly 'rad' posturing there's actually some decent content IMO.
Have you ever noticed that in the world of MBUK tress, and the horizon seem to bee at funny angles to make the riding seem a bit more hard core!
Like this? 😉
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It's just a magazine. Doddy is just a bloke. Why are people getting so excited?
If you don't like something, I presume you don't buy it, so why bother taking the time to whinge about it?
All the magazines (including MTB ones) have their target readers clearly defined, and judging by the stuff I read on this board (which to be fair, probably only represents less than 1% of STW's readership, just the interwebbos) MBUK isn't aimed at making you happy.
I buy most mags each month (spend too much time sat on planes with no wifi ;)) and I get something different out of all of them. I can't say that there are many people who write for MTB magazines that would annoy me so much as to make me come on a website and publically have a moan about them. Some of my colleagues in my own office however, now that's a different story 👿
MBUK - light reading, good for new kit, good for local scene info
STW - some decent articles
MBR - good trail guides and reviews
Dirt - pretty pictures that make me want to ride
Proper LOL at that picture gravity-slave, if you flip it up the right way he's actually going slightly up hill lol.
Was in the cafe at the top of Nevis Range a few years back when the world cups were on, the MBUK lot were walking past me as I was carrying my food on a tray and one shoved the other one into me, twice, I put my tray on the nearest table to [s]smack [/s] reprimand him and they scarpered, Doddy just looked embarassed to be honest.
The mag is pretty crap though. I think it's aimed more at the younger end / DH market nowadays.
W(who)TF is Doddy? Am I missing out on something...I haven't bought MBUK for quite a while now but never heard of this Doddy character....I'm presuming its not this one?:
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Back in the day when my work was of interest to the mtb press, I spoke to and met reps from pretty much all the mags and web-sites. They all seemed like reasonable people, just doing their jobs, often against pretty tight deadlines which could lead to any of them being a bit, er, scratchy if it was approaching press day.
Although I do get the feeling Doddy wouldn't get so muck stick if he was called Pete, Steve or even Tarquin (for the STW'ers) rather than Doddy....... 😉
gravity slave, you made me lol epicly 🙂
I actually like MBUK now (apart from the Rebholz articles), I always get the impression that the writers know what they are talking about and can ride. Slagging off someone like that just seems like extreme jealousy to me, the guy gets paid to ride bikes and seems to do that pretty well.
Maybe he has stopped so that the rider in front gets off the ladder before he starts down.
Tim Brooke Taylor
Love it!
But stop picking on the poor guy, journalists have feelings too you know.
Yeah, I'm going to apologise now, sorry Doddy, I don't know you, If I did, I still wouldn't be rude about you on a public forum.
I'm not even going to have one final wisecrack....
*bites tongue and walks away*