Cycling magazine, which one??

My favourite is Ride cycling review.I used to get the Australian version but it got too expensive to have it shipped here.They now do a UK one and it's a good read albeit a little behind with race results due to it being quarterly.

Don't bother with mags unless you like paying for adverts and fawning overviews of latest shiny toys

Save yer cash, stick with road.cc, Bikeradar and, and cyclechat (for advice & social). Even get stuck into twitter & find some cycling types on there.

For reading, the Kindle store often has cycling related books on offer cheaply. I'm reading Anna Hughes' tale of cycling around the coast of UK for 99p. Before that, Carlton Reid's excellent and massive "Roads were not built for cars" was £1.99

If you want to read these free of charge on tablet etc, you can get most free downloadable via your library. I was amazed at the selection they offered. Some councils offer more variety than others.

Depends what free gift is on the cover.......

Rouleur for me too

Cycling Active for me.
I find it is not geared towards the top end riders but more the middle/bottom end of the scale.
Lots of the usual reviews and features.
Also sometimes has some mountain bike articles too now and again.

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I really want to like Cyclist, it's a proper quality mag on decent paper with great writing and pictures, but the reviews are (almost) always really top end bikes. They usually review 4 bikes an issue, one is often a ladies/women's fit and the other 3 are rarely less than £2k. One month I think all 3 were over £5k! I don''t mind reading about a super-expensive almost-pro level bike now and again, but they are just too expensive.

obviously not the question you asked, but have a look at what they are giving away free if you subscribe. cycling plus and procycling had offers with free? leyzne lights, which meant I could get a light cheaper than retail then cancel after 6 months.

I read Cyclist & Rouleur. I used to have a digital subscription to Cycling Plus, but once you notice that every review is "A great bike, let down by its heavy wheels" it gets old very quickly.

Also, I realised that I really don't need another article by a retired footballer/cricketer/rugby player telling me how cycling helped them lose the weight they put on after retiring.

I read Cyclist & Rouleur. I used to have a digital subscription to Cycling Plus, but once you notice that every review is "A great bike, let down by its heavy wheels" it gets old very quickly.

Also, I realised that I really don't need another article by a retired footballer/cricketer/rugby player telling me how cycling helped them lose the weight they put on after retiring.

If the cost is an important factor try Cycling Plus. I'm halfway through a two-year subscription which cost me £65. That's £2.50 per issue, almost exactly half price.

And it's a pretty fair magazine too, if you accept that half the pages are ad's.

+1 for Cyclist. Really well written.

Cycling Plus- lots of kit reviews, some useful comparisons, very much MAMIL target audience

Cyclist- can be quite entertaining, can be a bit pretentious, reviews a bit subjective and vague (but that's maybe better than trying to look objective and not really managing it). On edition tends to be rather like another- expensive bikes reviewed, detailed description of going up some big hills in europe, fancy photos of expensive kit.

Bikes etc somewhere between the two and very kit orientated. I've got a cycling plus subscription and buy the odd cyclist, thinking of swapping to the other way round

I've recently trimmed down my subscriptions; I struggle to get through Cycling Weekly before the next delivery. I have kept Cyclist and CW. Cyclist is a little top end, as previously mentioned, but it is well written and a good mixture of rides, reviews and training/fitness.
Gave up on Singletrack, maybe I'm not a true MTB'er but struggled to spend more than 20 minutes on it. Bikes was okay but just left me pinning for new kit which I knew wouldn't be happening.

I read almost all of them.. (via an app called Readly- check it out it's v good!) my favs are Cycling Weekly, Cycling Plus & Rouleur.

I like Cyclist mag. It is a little bit more 'top end' with many of the reviews but the rides are a good read and some of the training articles seem well written.

^ this is, of course, all IMHO.

I'd say all of them are just advertising and telling you that you need the latest gear. Personally I find the bikeradar website very good.

http://www.bikeradar.com/road/gear/article/angryasian-the-ultimate-creak...

as an example, it's a well known issue that cannondales' BB30 have issues with creaking noises, especially on alloy frames. But how many other magazines/websites have talked about it? perhaps they are happy ignoring it as long as cannondale keep sending them their latest stuff to review.