from [URL]http://umgweb.com[/URL] Childishly Correct Fans of the Used Motorcycle Guide - and there still seems to be an awful lot of them - don't find the struggling, glossy Used Bike Guide much fun, wannabe writers complaining that they are apparently not allowed to mention speeding, other minor illegality, pubs, bodging stuff (rather than getting it fixed correctly) or even sex! Doesn't leave much to write about, then, does it? How deeply this political correctness runs in the other motorcycle magazines I have no idea (but if you do, let me know and I will reveal all here) but combine it with troubled WH Smiths' (the UK's major retailer/distributor) arrogant stupidity in not comparing how well magazines sell but how much dosh they make out of them (consequently, a magazine that sells well but is cheap gets chopped) to end up with shelf after shelf of glossy periodicals and nary a paragraph worth reading!
