Bike Magazine

I really must remember to cancel it.

Editorial in March 2011 edition:
" Last stretch, lads. Nearly there. Soon it will be time to for us to
disconnect the trickle charger and stop prowling the garage perimeter
like a nation of grumpy tigers" blah blah....

So Tim Thompson, Editor, I am surprised that despite being editor of
this magazine, you don't seem to realise that a bike *will* work
between October and March and some of us even ride our bikes when it's
a bit chilly.
This has really pissed me off, I shuoldn't be surprised 'though as
it's been making the transition from bike magazine to coffee table
bollocks for years, I guess that the fair weather sportsbike riding,
dayglo leathered, accident statistics that the public regard as bikers
have won.

I *will* cancel it.

 

<Rufty Tufty Biker talk>

**** me, the fair weather bikers thread is early this year. I blame
global warming

 

Should we run a sweepstake on the date the first "power ranger slowed
me down thread" appears?

 

My leathers are black.

 

There's another colour?

 

It went crap when Ogri left

 

It went crap a long time before that.

Unless you mean when he disappeared in the 80s.

 

I dont buy any mags for anything now, my all time fav classic & sportscar is
fucking shit now, so they can all **** off.

--


Nige,

'That's shot the fox'

Eunos Roadster (for summer)
Grand Cherokee (for winter)

 

Yep

 

Before you do that why don't you test the journalistic intergrity of the
editor and send him a letter. If he is not from the same mould as the
rest of them he may actually have the bollox to publish. And if you bulk
it up to a couple of k words you may even get an article out of it and
some dosh to cover the postage. Include some pictures of a half naked
tart draped over some gaudy but otherwise pointless plastic and you will
get a whole series.

 

Some decades ago, yes, it was.

 

I dunno. I gave up writing for it a couple of years ago when they
slashed the freelance rate to poverty level.

Everything in it seems track based these days: inside a racer's garage,
race bikes tested on the track, reports on track days, the latest sports
whatever tested on the track, long articles about racing....

That, and innumerable "how to ride better" pieces.

Still like Mat Oxley's column, think Roop Paul's column is consistently
thought-provoking and brilliant, and sort of blank the rest.

 

The upside-downy-heads seem to think so

--
Lozzo
Versys 650 Inter-Continental Hyperbolistic Missile , CBR600F-W racebike
in the making, TS250C, RD400F (somewhere)
BMW E46 318iSE (it's a car, not one of those 2-wheeled pieces of shite
they churn out)

 

Green - Kamikazi colours.

 

Some of the sub plots which happen separate from the main story are
quite good.

Personally Ogri personifies a lot of what I don't like about the biker
culture.

 

Would that be like the Ogri episode where he mugs a bike plod for his
uniform on the way to a fancy dress party?

 

In the early years. I often enjoyed the background artwork of Paul
Sample in the strip.

 

I always something faintly unpleasant about his depiction of British life.

 

Which one? The Custom culture , the Race Rep culture , the
Adventure Bike culture, the list goes on......

 

It'll be the anti plod bit that's causing the problem.