Rouleur Magazine

Azhar
Azhar Posts: 247
edited June 2012 in Road general
Anyone a subscriber to the Rouleur magazine? any good? i've tried to find some reviews and they've all been good so far but bit on the expensive side?

which cycling magazines do you normally buy?

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  • alihisgreat
    alihisgreat Posts: 3,872
    I buy it a few times a year its a good read and I especially like the features they do on different manufacturers...

    Other mags like cycling plus get a bit same-y and cycling weekly is only good for a quick flick through because if your on a website like bike radar enough most if the news is redundant and their features are pretty weak.

    If I had to choose one to subscribe too it would probably be rouleur.
  • indysmith
    indysmith Posts: 276
    I am subscribed to Rouleur and have been for over a month now, but I'm still waiting for one to show up :lol:
  • sungod
    sungod Posts: 17,351
    imho procycling is the best

    somehow i got a free online subscription to peloton, sometimes it's a bit usa-centric, but usually has good articles of wider interest
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  • Duffer65
    Duffer65 Posts: 341
    It's a great magazine, with some lovely photography. However, it is a bit pricey...for me at least...I had to cancel my subscriptions as I couldn't justify the cost...to the missus!
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  • Redhog14
    Redhog14 Posts: 1,377
    Rouleur and Privateer are peerless as magazines/journals on their respective topics with far greater understanding and depth of coverage as well as fanatastic art work/photography like The Ride Journal you do't through them out afterward but can return to them again. Subscribe to CycleSport as I prefer its sense of humour to ProCycling's more heavily styled and IMO pofaced output.
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  • ShutUpLegs
    ShutUpLegs Posts: 3,522
    All useful for shoving down your jersey on an Alpine descent
  • ALaPlage
    ALaPlage Posts: 732
    ShutUpLegs wrote:
    All useful for shoving down your jersey on an Alpine descent

    Not Rouleur as its a bit smaller than your standard mag but does have a good paper quality which may make up for its slightly smaller dimensions :D
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  • Wheelie Bin
    Wheelie Bin Posts: 162
    Just bought the latest copy this week and I think, visually, Rouleur is losing the plot.

    The photography is becoming esoteric to the point of being pretentious (ie. it's not really that good any more) and the resident illustrator's work is awful (there are a lot of good illustrators around, so why stick with this one?). I'm speaking with experience in publishing and design. Come on guys... get a new art director to sort it out.

    I think ProCycling is a much better magazine - good editorial, excellent features and excellent photography.
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  • Beatmaker
    Beatmaker Posts: 1,092
    Wheelie Bin wrote:
    Just bought the latest copy this week and I think, visually, Rouleur is losing the plot.

    The photography is becoming esoteric to the point of being pretentious (ie. it's not really that good any more) and the resident illustrator's work is awful (there are a lot of good illustrators around, so why stick with this one?). I'm speaking with experience in publishing and design. Come on guys... get a new art director to sort it out.

    I think ProCycling is a much better magazine - good editorial, excellent features and excellent photography.

    I too work in publishing, but cannot agree on your comments on the visual aspect of Rouleur. I like the fact its different and quirky, I'd hate it to change. I agree on Pro Cycling though, the relatively recent changes have made it the magazine I look forward to most. Tim de Waele has a fantastic eye for cycle photography.
  • Wheelie Bin
    Wheelie Bin Posts: 162
    Beatmaker wrote:
    I too work in publishing, but cannot agree on your comments on the visual aspect of Rouleur. I like the fact its different and quirky, I'd hate it to change.

    Don't get me wrong - I like different and quirky. It's a really nice format and I like the stock, but I just think the photography and illustrations could be better... it's kind of edging towards National Geographic in its approach (finding diverse stories around a central theme), but the content isn't quite up to it's ambitions.
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  • RDW
    RDW Posts: 1,900
    I thought the last issue (#31) was excellent. Devoting over 30 pages to the great Robert Capa's photos of the 1939 Tour de France may not be to everyone's taste, but for me made it worth the price of the issue alone. Rouleur isn't really competing directly with Cycle Sport or ProCycling - it's produced like an art magazine, something you could stick on the shelf and enjoy 10 years from now. I don't subscribe or buy every issue, but it's always been worthwhile when I've picked one up. Yes, it was started by Rapha and I'm sure the http://internationale.teamjva.com guys could do a great parody (the editors are especially fond of desaturated colour in the 'legendary bike builder's workshop of the month' articles), but it's nice to see something different to the bland style of most cycling magazines.
  • Wheelie Bin
    Wheelie Bin Posts: 162
    RDW wrote:
    I thought the last issue (#31) was excellent. Devoting over 30 pages to the great Robert Capa's photos of the 1939 Tour de France...

    The issue I was refering to was no.30; didn't want to be on record as appearing to criticise Robert Capa... I'll rush out and get no.31 forthwith!
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  • Headhuunter
    Headhuunter Posts: 6,494
    I had a free copy of Rouleur an it came across as a bit of a coffee table/fashion magazine with various dull features and nothing of practical use in it...
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  • Courage Monsieur
    Courage Monsieur Posts: 534
    Rouleur is completely different to other cycling magazines.

    If you like grainy, 'documentary' style photography and retro features then it's worth a look.

    If you think Rapha kit is cool there's a good chance you'll like Rouleur.

    It's a good-looking publication with an interesting take on things. I looked into it years back but baulked at the cost.
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    It costs almost the same as when it started, but comes out every 2 months now and, like your average mamil, is perhaps a bit heftier than it should be, as there's a lot of chinwag to wade through and the formulaic repetition (factory visits etc) somehow seemed less noticeable when it was a quarterly. I guess the more frequently it appears increases the effort required to keep it fresh.

    I would describe it as a journal, as the layout is not really intended for flicking through, but more like Granta or some similar publication and from the text typography I would guess that articles are written ahead of design and not sub-edited (or much) to fit. There used to be some dreadful typographic nasties in the very early issues (extreme letter-spacing of words to fill out lines, like a freebie newspaper) and they are still shy of using hyphenation to avoid over-large word spaces in narrow columns, but it's more consistent now.
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