A mate picked up a subscription at the NEC and I read it on the train back to town - thought it was a fairly decent read - kit reviews/bike reviews but also road riding tips/techniques from a police rider and track/cornering tips from a racer which I’d not seen in other mags …
If they are there next year with a similar offer then I’ll probably treat myself … must say I avoided the stall on the basis of the website being pap … think he paid £30 for a year (so £2.50 a month) with £20 worth of cleaning products thrown in?
Ahhh…to be honest I’ve never read the site, I don’t buy that many bike mags but when i do it’s two (or visor down as it is now) and I’ve always found it to have some interesting articles.
As far as I was aware they were always affiliated with visor down then just changed the magazine name… presume in no small part to “www.two.co.uk” being long gone. Probably to a porn site specialising in DP.
I prefer Bike, but then I am looking for more features in a mag. Got a sub to both though. I like Ride for the library of hints, tips etc. and Bike for the amount of stuff it has in.
At the start, VD had nothing to do with TWO then the owner, who I think was Ben Cope sold it to TWO magazine a good few years ago…
In its prime, VD was a wicked site, was famous for being very aggressive in posts but ignoring that, there was some very knowledgeable members using the forum…
Now, theres more adverts than users on VD…and the old crowd went to www.therevcounter.com which is a good bike site.
I used to read TWO a lot, I liked Whitam and McKensie. When I met them at the NEC I got the impression that they thought I was an idiot though. Anyway I’ve had a look at Visor down and didn’t like it much so that has put me off the magazine when it was re branded. I was published in TWO once. See below (JoeYZF, I wanted a Thundercat once):
Haha, I actually only have 4 issues of two, one of them (the first one) i picked up in a bar I was working in - a customer left it behind.
Funnily enough it was that very issue, and I’ve read that letters page several times out of boredom - How strange that it was you :w00t: Always thought it was a fair comment, along with the guy after you.