Your magazine history

Random thought while out on a ride – I was trying to remember all the magazines I’ve bought regularly over the years.

The Beano (aged 6-9)
Shoot (I think, some football mag anyway, 9-12)
Scale Modeller (10-13)
White Dwarf (13-16)
RC Car (not sure of exact title, about 15-16)
Keyboard (started playing them, 18-23)
Car (23-30)
Neon (Short lived film magazine, 25-29)
Hotdog (Short lived film magazine, 30-35)
Wired UK (32-35)
Evo (29-35)
What Mountain Bike (30-38)
Singletrack (33-now)
Procycling (41-now)
Cyclist (43-now)

Not entirely sure what that says, apart from I like magazines.

What have you got?

Plenty by PRP. 🙂

Razzle
Singletrack

Got a National Geographic publication as a kid called ‘Ranger Rick’ followed by its more grown-up version, called ‘World’. But my dad always subscribed to the proper National Geographic, and I was a pretty devout reader of that from about the age of eight until my late teen years.

As a pretty serious kid, I also got my parents to subscribe to Time Magazine for me, and would periodically buy the Canadian equivalent, Macleans.

Otherwise, there was a North American magazine called ‘European Car’ that I loved getting in the late 1990s, until moving to the UK in 2003.

I also used to regularly buy ‘Men’s Health’ and ‘MBR’, along with less frequent purchases of Singletrackworld, although STW is the only magazine I buy now.

The relaunched Eagle comic – early 80s
Battle (then became Battle Action Force) – also early 80s
Combat & Survival – late 80s (collected the whole 100 edition partwork)
Street Machine (custom cars, hot rods, etc) – mid / late 80s
Pretentious literary bollocks (various) – early 90s (at university)
NME – early 90s
Select – 90s when there was a decent free tape on the cover
Practical Classics / sundry classic car type magazines – early 90s to now
Mini World – Early 90s
VW World (or something like that) – mid 90s
Time Out (London) – late 90s
BBC Good Food Magazine – early 00s to now
MBR – late 00s to date
Singletrack – early 201x (not sure if we’ve named this decade yet?) to date
Other mountain bike magazines if going for a long train trip and / or the cover-mounted free gift seemed worth having.
Practical Motorhome and others of its ilk – 2009 to 2014

White Dwarf (80s)
Kerrang (80s)
2000AD (80s 90s)
Viz (90s)
Bicycle Action (80s)
MBR (00s)
ST (00s 10s)
VW Bus (10s)

Beano , Shoot , Look-In , Sounds , NME , Melody Maker ,Viz ,Select , Loaded(early doors) , Time Out and STW of late.
Oh and someone used to leave Club in a back lane on my paperound! Thanks someone.

2000AD
NME
Loaded
Viz
MBR
Schwanger Horse
STW

the wire
viz
singletrack

sometimes during the same jobby…

Beano
Shoot
stuff we used to find lying around in hedges
your computer
autocar
Q music
astronomy now
MBR
BBC Focus
national geographic

don’t think I’ve ever bought a copy of STW!

Bike.
Vertical.
Singletrack.
Cyclist.

That’s all.

binners – Member

Razzle
Singletrack

But were you as prominent on the forum at Razzle?

Look and Learn (not my choice!)
Boards
Bicycle Action
MTB Pro
Fallline
Singletrack
Yachting Monthly
Classic Boat

bike magazine in the 70s IIRC it was 35p
SuperBike
Which Bike?
Motorcycle Mechanics

kindof stopped after that

Beano
Angling Times
Climber
On The Edge
Singletrack

Peoples Friend

Beano
Computer and Video Games
St Format (Atari magazine)
Shoot
90minutes
Focus (science mag i think? Thanks Grandad)
Mbuk
NME
Dirt
Private Eye
WSC
Viz when i go to airports.
Singletrack
Bicycling

all this punctuated by jazz mags here and there (not at airports)

Dandy
Shoot
Crash -speccy Mag
Toxic
Marshall Law Superhero Hunter
2000AD
White Dwarf
Sea Angler
Metal Hammer
MBUK
WMB
Superbike
Singletrack
Motorcycle News
Motorcycle Sport and Leisure
The Ride
Boneshaker

Maxray/Yak’s reminded me of another – Angling Times when I was about 11 or 12.

Singletrack
New Statesman
Private Eye
Sadly I never see Viz these days

The Eagle
2000Ad
RAD

Ohh, good thread.. casts my mind back… the earliest was Sailing World, a US publication that I started to get around 16yrs old, before that nowt.

Not really in order, but you get the jist..
Sailing World
Yachts and Yachting
Windsurf
Boards
Yachting World
Rouleur
Mondial
Peloton
Economist
IO
Trail Running

Good shout on Crash the spectrum mag

Dandy/Beano
White Dwarf
MixMag (big life changes at this point!)
NME
The Face
The Economist
STW
Dirt
Wired
GQ