Bicycling's current issue

[jobob]

Maybe I'm old and jaded, but I don't get riled up about this kind of thing anymore (by that I mean the latest issue of Bicycling).

IMHO Bicycling is a worthless rag, and all that raising a stink accomplishes is to create more interest in the magazine, which is PRECISELY what the publishers want. It basically gives them free advertising.

This latest issue is probably a desperate move on their part to try to widen the appeal of the magazine to the "he-man Joe SixPack" set. Or to allay any nascent insecurities their (male) readers may feel when they don lycra

If it makes you feel any better, another bike list that I mostly lurk, which as far as I can tell has about 90% men 10% women, had it's own group tirade a few days over that issue of the mag. I'm not sure if any of the women chimed in on it - I basically just skimmed over the posts - but the general consensus was that it was a load of juvenile bunk. Some of the listmembers did write letters to the mag expressing their distaste ( and a couple of wizeguys chimed in to the list to say 'gee, didn't know about it, thanks for the tip' ).

Just my 2 cents.

- Jo