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iainf72

For those who have seen it - Any guesses who the quoted cyclist in Broomwagon is slagging off forum people?

I know he's not talking about me because I'm not 50 and don't have Vicky P wallpaper.

Kléber

I haven't read the quote but I'd slag off forums to, one visit to the cyclingnews.com forum is enough to put me off a holiday in America: can so many people be so wrong so often?

iainf72

Kléber wrote:

I haven't read the quote but I'd slag off forums to, one visit to the cyclingnews.com forum is enough to put me off a holiday in America: can so many people be so wrong so often?

The quote was definitely talking about "british" forums with mentioning Victoria P.

Kléber

veloriders then?

frenchfighter

I really like that magazine yet they have too much love for Wiggins and Lance. The amount of covers they have taken up this year and last yet none of them have won anything this year or last or even done well this year.

RichN95.

iainf72 wrote:

For those who have seen it - Any guesses who the quoted cyclist in Broomwagon is slagging off forum people?

Well, I've narrowed it down to a shortlist of one.

iainf72

RichN95 wrote:

Well, I've narrowed it down to a shortlist of one.

Wiggins or Cav?

RichN95.

iainf72 wrote:

RichN95 wrote:

Well, I've narrowed it down to a shortlist of one.

Wiggins or Cav?

Cav. I suppose it could be Wiggins, but he doesn't seem to rant or swear as much to reporters.

Kléber

frenchfighter wrote:

I really like that magazine yet they have too much love for Wiggins and Lance. The amount of covers they have taken up this year and last yet none of them have won anything this year or last or even done well this year.

When you put Lance on the cover, sales soar.

frenchfighter

I would have thought the majority of sales come from subscriptions? It would be interesting to know what proportion of sales are one-offs.

GroupOfOne MkII

To save me ripping the plastic bag open in Smiths, what's the Giro preview like? Worthy buying?

sonny73

The Giro preview is a similar format to last years if that helps your decision

RichN95.

GroupOfOne MkII wrote:

To save me ripping the plastic bag open in Smiths, what's the Giro preview like? Worthy buying?

The usual sort of stuff. All the stage routes with profiles, a run down of the big names and which teams will be there and a list of past winners. Plus an article about the 7-Eleven team in 1985 which I quite liked.

frenchfighter

RichN95 wrote:

Plus an article about the 7-Eleven team in 1985 which I quite liked.

Yes, this was very interesting.

Homer J

frenchfighter wrote:

I would have thought the majority of sales come from subscriptions? It would be interesting to know what proportion of sales are one-offs.

I would have thought that a majority of subscriptions come from a one off sale

Kléber

Sonny73 wrote:

The Giro preview is a similar format to last years if that helps your decision

Nothing that you won't find on the internet: a collection of maps and profiles then. Aka padding.

GroupOfOne MkII

Many thanks all, while the 7-Eleven bit sounds good, overall it sounds like one to miss then unless I get too desperate. I see there's a preview in ProCycling too, so that'll have to do.

prawny

Kléber wrote:

frenchfighter wrote:

I really like that magazine yet they have too much love for Wiggins and Lance. The amount of covers they have taken up this year and last yet none of them have won anything this year or last or even done well this year.

When you put Lance on the cover, sales soar.

I don't know, the article they did about lances comeback year was pretty scathing. It's the most negative thing about lance I've seen in print. Unless you count those pamplets that bikingbernie hands out in the centre of town at weekends.

Cheesyman99

I have a Viccy P wallpaper

phil s

RichN95 wrote:

Cav. I suppose it could be Wiggins, but he doesn't seem to rant or swear as much to reporters.

Right.

Tusher

I'm not 50 and I'm hunting for Cav wallpaper.


Aye, methinks it was the Manxman indeed. When you're 24, fifty seems ancient, over the hill and without a life. When actually each decade keeps getting better.

simon_e

Kléber wrote:

Sonny73 wrote:

The Giro preview is a similar format to last years if that helps your decision

Nothing that you won't find on the internet: a collection of maps and profiles then. Aka padding.

I'll be buying it tomorrow. I have enjoyed the last 2 or 3 issues, and during the GTs I find it helps to have some glossy paper lying around to remind me what the stages are about. I spend long enough at the 'pooter in work (and on cycling forums!) so I don't mind a few quid if it gets me a something worth more than a glance.

CS has trounced Procycling in this respect of late. This month's seems good, as others have said, with the 7-Eleven feature etc. Going by this article it's not short of decent content. Seems to have a favourable editorial : advert ratio too.

I really don't want to see LA gurning from every cover but if he, Cavendish and Wiggins help shift copies in order to pay for decent content - and they don't dominate the other 100+ pages inside - then I will happily live with it.