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A BIT OF FEEDBACK…
I am writing the following with the best of intentions and there is a compliment at the end, so stick with it. A wee bit about me… a cranky 66-year-old ex-FB reader, raced 350LCs in my youth, then dabbled with supermoto racing, still swift enough on a trackday, have owned more than 100 bikes, still do about 15,000 miles a year on two wheels, love maxi scoots, and my wife and I help sponsor a young Spanish racer.
Probably like many bike ‘enthusiasts', I bought all the monthly comics, including yours, for was the only one that I made a conscious decision to stop buying because I thought it had become rubbish. I know that sounds cruel, but let me explain. The impression I got was that it was staffed by a few young bike enthusiasts (with longings to become comedians) who only liked fast bikes, and the magazine was a conduit to let them play on such machines. I can't be arsed going up to my loft to look through old copies of so the following is just from memory. Tests were poorly written and a bit idiotic… every test included the words ‘hoist a minger' and other irrelevant tripe, and the over-use of unfunny anecdotes. Anything that was not a 200hp carbon-clad rocket was tested as a joke, tourers and smaller bikes tested in race leathers, and generally mocked.
