shaggy – Member
Lights test is a funny one. New lights tend to come out for the start of the winter, for obvious reasons. The bike industry isn’t super ahead of itself so the mags tend to get there test lights days before they can be bought*. So you have 4 options:
1. Review last years lights.
2. Write a review really quickly with limited use of the product (lots of mags do this, the results aren’t really representative of real world use!)
3. Review the latest products a couple of months after the ideal time for users.
4. A combination of the above.
I night ride all year round. #3, the Singletrack option, makes sense to me!
* As an illustration, I had a really early prototype of the Diablo at OSMM, a couple of months later you could buy them.
Maybe this is some of the problem ,, it's down to time scales,, a mag takes time to write produce print and distribut ,, there are now so many websites doing what the mags did but with instant results,, ,,
one of the websites I visit everyday is http://twentynineinches.com/ ok it's niche but it's what I want to read about, you proberly couldnt sell a mag with niche content,
but being net based they can have tests and info up instantly and no premier user payments (yet)
on the plus side STW is the only mountain bike mag I buy, but not every month