Cycling Magazines/what do you subscribe to?

[Grog]

No, I didn't mean the complaints weren't legit or genuine. Only that it will have less impact if there are a bunch of letters all saying basically the same thing in a short amount of time. Sustained complaints over current issues will be more effective, in my opinion.

I totally agree.

[Trek420]

and arriving in my mail today.....Bicycling magazine with special 8 page promotional insert for "Best Life" from the editors of "Men's Health" including the feature "How to Drive Women Wild". According to them the top 3 things we want to hear

1) I can't wait to see you
2) I love waking up with you
3) I brought you something

thought it was
1) I'll do the dishes
2) I love doing laundry
3) I brought you something from the LBS

[Prairiedog]

and arriving in my mail today.....Bicycling magazine with special 8 page promotional insert for "Best Life" from the editors of "Men's Health" including the feature "How to Drive Women Wild". According to them the top 3 things we want to hear

1) I can't wait to see you
2) I love waking up with you
3) I brought you something

thought it was
1) I'll do the dishes
2) I love doing laundry
3) I brought you something from the LBS

Trek...I'm sending you a "high-five" on that one!! After reading this thread I got out the May issue of Bicycling and after going page-by-page I was appalled that 99% of the people in the magazine ARE men. I am usually so miffed by the articles they write that I have never paid attention before to the fact that the magazine does in fact totally ignore woman as serious cyclists.

So much for burning our sports bras.

[Prairiedog]

Grog...you can subscribe to 'Her Sport' at Amazon.com

[SandyGirl]

I took a peak at the current Bicyclng magazine and also felt that it was Male oriented. I am a not a racer, etc. Just a rider that wants fitness and excercise out of the rides. I will check out the HerSport. Thanks for bringing that one to my attention.
Sandy

[Lifesgreat]

HerSports is also available at www.hersports.com

[Starfish]

Grog, thanks for a kick in the butt. I've been thinking of going through my whole last year's worth of Bicycling and doing what you did before writing my letter. I am going to do it. And, Tuckerville, I love your input about simply writing a real, even if brief, letter each month, specific to each issue.

I have also been sending letters to companies like Nashbar and so forth. I am tired of 2 pages of women's stuff inside a whole catalog. I also find it irritating that women's clothes are labelled just that (women's clothes) and men's clothes are not. Flip through biking catalogs, and you see (mostly) when men's clothes are shown, they are not specified men's vs. women's. They would like to imply that non-women's clothes are unisex, except that we all know that if it hasn't been made for a woman, it is designed to work for men.

Someone else here mentioned the Bicycling shoe article. That irritated me, too. The greatest cycling shoes! All men's (and all tested by men), but the article was not called The Best Men's Cycling Shoes. I have also noticed that almost always the bike testers are men. I know that not all women require WSD bikes, and I would like to see more women writing about all the bikes that get test-ridden.

Finally, it irks me that Style-Man gets to be called a man, but it's Fit-Chick and Shop-Girl. You notice it is not Style-Boy and Shop-Woman.

Thanks to all of you for your great input, your alternative publication suggestions (also worth mentioning to Bicycling...tell them who they're being replaced by), and any commitments you make to writing letters & speaking up. And, thank you for being here in these forums!