New Online Bike Mag up and running

Graemef
Graemef Posts: 53
edited August 2009 in MTB general
Good Luck to them...

Definitely worth a look
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  • RealMan
    RealMan Posts: 2,166
    Looks interesting, bit too much full sus though.
  • The Hogester
    The Hogester Posts: 101
    I love free stuff :D
  • Raymondavalon
    Raymondavalon Posts: 5,346
    Excellent.. loved the Ellsworth advert..
    Bookmarked and will be frequented by myself..
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  • missmarple
    missmarple Posts: 1,980
    Just been shown this by a friend of the site creator, very impressive stuff! But I must admit, a lot of adverts.... :?
  • Raymondavalon
    Raymondavalon Posts: 5,346
    missmarple wrote:
    But I must admit, a lot of adverts.... :?

    C'mon, it's free.. well sort of, the advertisements make up for the mouse click clientele :¬P
    Well at least some are Flash animated and entertaining, but then again the periodicals we buy are also laced with adverts - and they have the luxury of a revenue stream from magazine sales
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  • Legless
    Legless Posts: 119
    Really glad you like the mag, my name is Rou and I am the publisher behind the project. Yesterday was our soft launch, so expect to hear more about it over the next few weeks. But I thought I would take the time to say thanks for the comments.

    Miss Marple, Raymond is right, we need the adverts to support the project. There is a huge amount of work that goes into creating the magazine; in fact it is more work than a paper magazine as we don't outsource the publishing to a printing company. We do all that in house.

    The ads ensure you get a free magazine, and each issue will be free and remain online forever, so you will always have access to it! We are aiming the content at the everyday biker and hopefully we got that level about right. Expect the next issue to have even more content and subsequently the adverts to seem less obvious as there will be more editorial pages.

    Feel free to spread the link around as much as you like.

    http://www.imbikemag.com

    Cheers

    Rou Chater
    Publishing Editor
    IMB
    http://www.imbikemag.com
  • switchback18
    switchback18 Posts: 617
    Looks great! And the ads are strangely worth looking at...

    You can't complain at free, someone's got to pay for it. And you can skip the ads if you want... obvious I know...
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  • infoxicated
    infoxicated Posts: 73
    I think it's great! :D

    The adverts are fine - I actually clicked on a couple because they have been done in a way that doesn't make them annoying or intrusive. I was puzzled by the Giant Faith advert, though, as clicking the ad takes you to a page on their site that has no mention of it, but hey ho.

    Really looking forward to see how this evolves - I can see all the footage driving me crazy with inspiration over the course of the winter when it's too wet to enjoy my favourite trails.
  • Torres
    Torres Posts: 1,266
    Legless
    Props man, i really like it! Keep it up.
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  • chrisga
    chrisga Posts: 587
    Good first effort, I quite enjoyed a few of the articles. Look forward to the next one if there is going to be more editorial as you say!

    Good luck!
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  • giner1961
    giner1961 Posts: 135
    "Hmm" for mountain bikers, so no intrest to me been a roadie.
  • grumsta
    grumsta Posts: 994
    Er... isn't this the mountain bike forum?
  • ccc
    ccc Posts: 193
    Good work! Nicely done, good articles and it's probably the first time I've actually looked at the ads in a bike mag for more than 2 seconds.

    Looking forward to the next issue 8)
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  • The Northern Monkey
    The Northern Monkey Posts: 19,174
    Thats a bloody brilliant idea :D

    Is there a subscription email thingy anywhere?
    can we save copies to pc?
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  • bomberesque
    bomberesque Posts: 1,701
    nice work, shows some of the potential of online publishing; links to advertisers, "live"adverts, in text links to GPS routes all that groovy stuff. also like the fact that it's formatted for interweb (unlike STW which, whilst great, needs a mahoosive screen to look at a whole page)

    I hope their ad model works, seems a similar desity of advertising as print mags but already I would have to say I spent more time looking at the embedded video ads than I would look at static ads in a print edition

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  • Papa Smurf
    Papa Smurf Posts: 776
    bigbenj_08 wrote:
    Thats a bloody brilliant idea :D

    Is there a subscription email thingy anywhere?
    can we save copies to pc?

    http://www.imbikemag.com/subscribe.php
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    cool stuff. Liking this quite a lot.
  • fcumok
    fcumok Posts: 283
    Spent ages trying to get it to load to find it doesn't work in firefox on osx. If anyone else has this problem works fine in safari.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Doesn't work in FF? strange. I'm sure FF on windows works fine.
  • stubs
    stubs Posts: 5,001
    Nope doesnt work on FireFox you just sit looking at the page loading logo till windows shuts the page down
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    stubs wrote:
    Nope doesnt work on FireFox you just sit looking at the page loading logo till windows shuts the page down
    Bullshite

    Screencap of it in Windows 7 64-bit, in Firefox.

    Oddly, it doesn't work in Linux. It keeps complaining that a Flash update is needed, even though I have the newest one installed.
  • RealMan
    RealMan Posts: 2,166
    I'm running firefox and it works.
  • gcwebbyuk
    gcwebbyuk Posts: 1,926
    Firefox here too.

    Fantastic idea - subscribed :)

    I have said before that I would rather subscribe to the other mags in a web format (I currently subscribe to MBUK, What MTB, MBR and Bike (motorbike mag) and they take up so much room - drives the wife mad!).
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  • rowlers
    rowlers Posts: 1,614
    yeehaamcgee wrote:
    stubs wrote:
    Nope doesnt work on FireFox you just sit looking at the page loading logo till windows shuts the page down
    Bullshite

    Screencap of it in Windows 7 64-bit, in Firefox.

    Oddly, it doesn't work in Linux. It keeps complaining that a Flash update is needed, even though I have the newest one installed.

    Yeh it works in FF and on linux, reading it now! Looks good :wink:
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  • fcumok
    fcumok Posts: 283
    tried it on a linux mint box and doesn't work for me. Works in win with FF though.
  • deadpool2e
    deadpool2e Posts: 625
    edited August 2009
    What do you guys think of the articles and all the extra content? ie GPS file, vids etc etc..
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  • vinnn
    vinnn Posts: 62
    yeehaamcgee wrote:
    Oddly, it doesn't work in Linux. It keeps complaining that a Flash update is needed, even though I have the newest one installed.

    Works fine for me in Epiphany & Firefox under Fedora 11.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    nice one,, thanks for that...G
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    vinnn wrote:
    yeehaamcgee wrote:
    Oddly, it doesn't work in Linux. It keeps complaining that a Flash update is needed, even though I have the newest one installed.

    Works fine for me in Epiphany & Firefox under Fedora 11.
    Very strange. I'm running Ubuntu, and the version of Flash in synaptic is actually newer than the one on Adobe's website, which is where IMbikemagazine links to.
    Probably just need to uninstall the synaptic one, and install the version on Adobe's website.

    (and therein lies one of my major grievances with Linux)

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