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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Stormtruck2 on January 04, 2015, 02:47:28 PM
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The other morning (about 0200) I stopped at a KumN Go fuel stop for my DOT mandated 30 break. While lazily eyeballing the magazine rack, I seen a nice Ambo on the cover of a magazine. I pick it up and see that it is Motorcycle Classics. I don't read or subscribe to any motorcycle mags, cause they all seem the same. Same articles rotated through the various mags. Reading this magazine it seemed to be different. I really enjoyed not just the Ambo article, but the Ace and other articles. Anyone else here enjoy this magazine??
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Long time subscriber, I like it.
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Books-a-Million and Motorcycle Classics, almost no better way to spend an hour or so..
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I have a subscription, too. They do everything from old favorites to really obscure Giro bikes. There are some tech articles, but mostly bike features, shows, and lots of adverts for businesses that support the vintage bike scene. There is usually something for everyone in each issue. I like it...
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I was getting it for a year. It gets old like any other bike mag to me. I'd rather look @ a bike from behind the handgrips running down a country road. :bike
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Yeah.... Multi year subscriber... Great magazine... That ambassador on the cover was nice
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I have every issue published and it's the only one I get. Good amount of coverage of Guzzi over the years, too.
Steve M
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Subscriber for about 3-4 years. I enjoy it and don't consider even other bike mags.
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Well put together magazine. I met Richard Backus the editor at the Lemay show and went on a group ride with him. Real knowledgeable down to earth kind of guy.
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Long time subscriber, I like it.
;-T
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Excellent magazine. I read it regularly. Well, as soon as former MGNOC Nor-Cal area rep Don Van Zandt finishes them (he subscribes) and gets them to me. Thanks, Don. Some great bikes shown and good historical material, too.
Ralph
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I make it a point to page through it each time a new one comes to the local Jewel.
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I subscribed for three years but recently let my subscription lapse. Way too many "shoulda coulda woulda" bikes in each issue that make me salivate. My bank account is better off when I don't wear rose colored glasses. Other than that, it's a great mag.
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Bad influence on the weak. I once bought a Honda CB400F because of an article in this mag.
Rich A
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I was able to read the Ambassador article on line. I've read other articles from Motorcycle Classics that way too. I get emails from them regularly. Good articles. Until now I didnt know they had a magazine in print version. Why buy the cow when you can get the milk free?
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Long time subscriber. My only bike subscription. The rest can't hold a candle to it. :BEER:
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I really liked the previous issue with the home-built BSA twin.
It always wows me when a man can take a lathe and make an entire engine with it. Or even more amazing, break all the molds and create a world beating bike in his garage, like John Britten did. What a pity that man died so young...
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I subscribe to it and like it more than any other American motorcycle magazine. Unfortunately half or more of the articles don't interest me. They often use up space on what I consider exotics that few readers will ever see. I wish they had a larger section on actual repairs and restoration. The British magazine Classic Bikes is better but is expensive in the US.
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Same here...getting it for years
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Yep good mag - but not often available off the shelf over here
...... which reminds me - I'd better check to see when my subscription expires!!
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I've been a subscriber to Motorcycle Classics for several years too.
I like the articles and the very nicely-done pictures. There is still something preferable to me about holding a paper magazine (or book) in my hands rather that staring at a computer screen.
Motorcycle Classics covers machines familiar to many of the readers but they also occasionally review some unusual bikes that many have not seen or heard about.
Another benefit of these magazines are the ads in the back of the magazine. Many of the arcane and unusual providers of restoration services and items can be found there.
Lastly, in spite of such praise or maybe because of it, I am considering letting my subscription lapse.
I am in a phase of trying to pare-down and all too large collection of various bikes that have become, over years, a burden to maintain. Picking up a Motorcycle Classics is sort of like a recovering alcoholic strolling down the aisles of a liquor store and perusing the various brands of scotch beckoning for sale.
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Being a Vintage Triumph Motorcycle Enthusiast I was first attracted to MCM for the British M/C articles and I read it cover to cover unlike other publications that I subscribe to...
A bonus once in a bit is the occasional Guzzi article like the most recent edition.
I like it....
Best,
Rob
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By far my favorite motorcycle mag. I'm not interested in restoring a classic bike, but I enjoy seeing what other, more talented, riders have done.
Stan
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Long time subscriber. IMO the best out there.
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I saw that issue at the local bookstore and looked through the magazine. I was a subscriber for many years but dropped them sometime in the late '90s. Kept all the issues though. Excellent vintage trials coverage.
Tobit
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I enjoy it, although they need to learn that it's: Ride
'em Them, Don't Hide 'em Them! ~;
Like so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiDfJoyNacA&list=UU9IG3OtXFBEcHW8amvJADSA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiDfJoyNacA&list=UU9IG3OtXFBEcHW8amvJADSA)
Nick
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Here is a freebie for you thrifty enthusiasts:
http://magzus.com/read/classic_bike_guide_january_2015_uk/
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Here is a freebie for you thrifty enthusiasts:
http://magzus.com/read/classic_bike_guide_january_2015_uk/
;-T Thanks for that, Dave! Lots of good stuff in that issue.
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I've been a subscriber to Motorcycle Classics for the last 3-4 years and enjoy the magazine immensely. I also won my Droptail motorcycle trailer and accessories package through them back in the summer of 2012, so I really can't complain. ;D
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I've been a subscriber to Motorcycle Classics for the last 3-4 years and enjoy the magazine immensely. I also won my Droptail motorcycle trailer and accessories package through them back in the summer of 2012, so I really can't complain. ;D
Cool! I didn't realize that you had won that trailer.
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Long time subscriber, I like it.
:+1
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I enjoy it, although they need to learn that it's: Ride 'em Them, Don't Hide 'em Them! ~;
Like so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiDfJoyNacA&list=UU9IG3OtXFBEcHW8amvJADSA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiDfJoyNacA&list=UU9IG3OtXFBEcHW8amvJADSA)
Nick
Lordy, and I thought I could be a Miss Thistlebottom. ;D
I am in a portion of Fowler's "third group" WRT to the split infinitive, i.e., I only care when wishing to clearly signal I know the rule! :D
Thus, while I eschew ;) contractions in formal writing, a masthead or tee motto seems a not inappropriate place for shortening words, especially if that serves some purpose, which I think this does.
Moreover, while I do not think it the catchiest slogan in motoland, I have assumed that it was meant to be be a bit like that old Army saying: "Smoke 'em if you got 'em." "Em" just works; "them" doesn't. Ah, those days of yore before PC. :BEER:
Back now to that oil filter in the Moto Grappa. :D
Best,
Bill
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Great magazine. Subscriber for 2 yrs.
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Cool! I didn't realize that you had won that trailer.
I was on their website sometime in the beginning of 2012 and saw the sweepstakes info about the trailer on their front page and decided that it couldn't hurt to spend 30 seconds of my time to enter for the drawing. I didn't even think for a millisecond that I'd come even remotely close to winning, and the whole thing was forgotten about basically as soon as I finished entering.
Well fast forward to that June and I was home one afternoon browsing through my email, going through old stuff, deleting spam, etc and I was about to delete the email from Motorcycle Classics when I paused for a few seconds and thought "Hmm, well they never send me any junk/spam mail so I might as well open it and see what it's about."
Sure enough, it was congratulating me on winning the grand prize in that sweepstakes which was Droptail's top-model "Two-Up" trailer (http://www.droptailtrailers.com/shop-all-products/cruiser-sport-bike-trailers/two-up-cruiser-sport-bike-trailer.html) and about another $700-worth of additional equipment/accessories to go along with it.
It didn't even register in my brain at first because it had been so long since I entered that drawing, and I pretty much forgot about it 5 seconds after exiting the page back then, that I couldn't remember it for the life of me. Plus, the fact that I've never even won anything more than about $5 on a scratch-off lottery ticket before, I was really skeptical about the whole thing. I literally wasn't even remotely excited yet; just too skeptical.
So I contacted Motorcycle Classics / Ogden Publications over the phone and explained to them the email I received and she asks "Well you did enter the drawing right?" And after a few-second pause of really trying to dig deep in my memory bank and remember doing so (I still drew a blank) I replied "...Yeah?" She then congratulates me and basically explains the winnings again and requests some additional info before sending me some forms to fill out and mail back.
About a week after sending my forms back in to Ogden Publications, the massive crate arrived at the shipping location of my choosing (needed a warehouse-like location with loading docks, and my buddies work at the blood center in Bettendorf so had it shipped there). Very painless procedure.
I may not have won the Powerball, but man I sure felt like I did. 8) Even now, I still can't believe I won that drawing.
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I used to get it at the news stand then found it to be rehashing articles I had already read in "Classic Bike" and others. Still like it but it had become redundant with regards to other prescriptions which I had.
Todd.
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I used to get it at the news stand then found it to be rehashing articles I had already read in "Classic Bike" and others. Still like it but it had become redundant with regards to other prescriptions which I had.
Todd.
Same here. Every once in a while I will pick up one and flip through the pages.
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Been getting the magazine long before I purchased my guzzi but just a good feeling riding the guzzi everyday that there's no snow or salt this year and looking forward to MCM every month.
Life's short, enjoy what time we have and get on your guzzi and go for a ride!
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MC Classics is great. I've met one of their writers and he is a true motorcyclist, showing up to take photos with all his camera equipment in the saddlebags. This was at the end of a 2 day weekend MC show ride across the border. The articles I know the most about have been surprisingly accurate too.
And I called Ogden publishing because I had moved and didn't receive the last issue so they sent me a new one and a back issue for free! I told the young lady I was really impressed and she said it's all about customer service. ;-T