name of bike mag in A5 format from '80s??

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

What was that bike mag with the USP of featuring loads of concise, very accurate and objective reviews - I think it was in A5 format, and from the '80s.

I remember coming across on archive online, about 10 years ago and ended up ploughing through most of it, learning loads about bikes of that era. Think it might have all disappeared now though - but can't remember mag's name to Google properly.
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

UMG?

Someone retyped all the bike buyers guides and articles :-

https://yewemmgee.blogspot.com/
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[doggone]

Yes it was "Used Motorcycle Guide" I must still have a few copies.

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

nice one guys
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Mobylette Type 50 ---> Raleigh Grifter ---> Neval Minsk 125

[stinkwheel]

UMG, famous for no punches pulled single paragraph motorcycle reviews.

From memory:

"The Honda CB185 is a motorcycle that will smoke, rattle and bang its way into the annals of history as a motorcycle worth forgetting. In the unlikely even you find one still running, do the decent thing and throw a match in the tank."

and "The Jawa 500 is a mongrel marriage of a rotax single and jurassic era 350 chassis. Strictly for terminally skint commuters and students. Buy almost anything else instead."
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

UMG, or UBG? Was UBG a rebrand, or a different mag?

https://picclick.co.uk/Used-Motorcycle-Guide-Magazine-January-1993-274791496327.html

I do remember it used to have some terse and pithy mini-reviews.

[slowasyoulike]

[slowasyoulike]

Forgot to say... Bill Fowler re-emerged recently, and has a blog here:

https://www.motorcyclereader.com/