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Porn mags?

I have read "Ride" magazine or some time and used to look forward to each month. Now I am getting bored of all the BMW stuff that seems to populate the pages especially the GS. Ive tried a few other mags too but they were full of the same. £3.99 for a BMW marketing booklet, no more. Any suggestions for a good bike mag the covers a bit of everything ( except GS!)

If not.............. it will have to be from the top shelf
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ARB magazine does it for me, good and dirty!

but then, I'm a cage driver!
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Motor Cycle Monthly is worth reading and it is published for free but it still manages to write some good articles while living on the income from advertisements.
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I've given up on magazines now, I used to get Adventure Bike Rider, but it's doing the same thing, becoming an advert for all things big and shiny.

It does mean I've rediscovered books.
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Reading resources -free porn for the mind

Free ebooks - Project Gutenberg

Audio books - handy for doing two things at once
Browse By Category: Audio Book, human-read - Project Gutenberg
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www.cycletorque.com.au/ free mc mag OZ .. about the same as the others... we had a good one in 'Sidetrack' but it is no more - even the editor is dead. RIP Tony.
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Motorcycle Sport and Leisure covers a fairly broad range of motorcycles and usually has a travel article or two in it, give it a go.
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I've given up on magazines now, I used to get Adventure Bike Rider, but it's doing the same thing, becoming an advert for all things big and shiny.
I used to buy loads of bike mags in the past and still have a few boxes full of them in the loft somewhere but my mag buying declined pretty much in parallel with the rise of the internet and sites like this.

Ten or twenty years ago mags were just about the only source of information about whether particular bikes were good / bad / indifferent , which suppliers sold what etc. Now Google or a question on a forum has taken over that function.

The mags are obviously doing what they can to keep their sales up but I have a feeling it's more managed decline than anything, particularly as the numbers of starry eyed new entrants to the (UK) bike scene - people perhaps more likely to buy mags than jaded old cynics like me - is also in severe decline. Moto porn (defined as anything I want but can't afford ) is just one way they try to get me to lever open the dusty recesses of my wallet and buy the mag with my heart rather than my head.
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MCM, can't believe I have never come across it, never heard of it. I look in to that. Thanks
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