I mostly read the kit/bike tests in STW nowadays.
I realise that in 15 years of reading bike mags I never once actually went out and followed one of the written up routes.
The other columns basically are either “we went riding somewhere foreign and it was fun” and “I like riding and it makes me feel good”.
OK got that.
There’s only so much to be written about bikes, they do well to keep it going IMO. Chipps must really scratch his head to come up with a fresh editorial every month.
The forum can be useful and fun, I mostly subscribe just to put a few quid in the STW hat. & I recently switched to digital to kill the guilt of putting those beautiful, mostly unread, mags in the recycler.