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Rob Fzs
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PostPosted: 12:40 - 04 Mar 2023    Post subject: Practical Sports Bike magazine Final issue Reply with quote
Post off the PSB fb group, end of the mag

Well i tried to copy pasta it but bcf wont let me for some reason

Yadda yadda, print costs too much so they cant afford to make the mag anymore
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PostPosted: 12:57 - 04 Mar 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
Because you're my firend.

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PostPosted: 12:58 - 04 Mar 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
Aw, no! On-line edition?
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PostPosted: 13:03 - 04 Mar 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
Kawasaki Jimbo wrote:
Aw, no! On-line edition?


Craig Evans
Sorry to hear this it's the only bike mag worth picking up if it's the printing and distribution costs causing it's closure why not put it online? Then someone as old school as me would have to drag himself into the digital age

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Craig Evans It's a totally different proposition - simply transferring the pages to a screen alone wouldn't help.


That was the reply, from the sounds of it they're all on the hunt for a new job before they can do anything online and earn a wage
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PostPosted: 13:19 - 04 Mar 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
Strange, why wouldn’t an on-line edition address the stated problems of printing and distribution costs? I guess it would bring new problems, eg. require subscriptions, and many people like myself prefer to buy from shops so circulation might fall. It can’t be beyond the ability of Bauer Media to “transfer the pages to a screen” though.
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PostPosted: 13:25 - 04 Mar 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
Kawasaki Jimbo wrote:
Strange, why wouldn’t an on-line edition address the stated problems of printing and distribution costs? I guess it would bring new problems, eg. require subscriptions, and many people like myself prefer to buy from shops so circulation might fall. It can’t be beyond the ability of Bauer Media to “transfer the pages to a screen” though.


Bauer just sounds like the usual big business efficiency bull shit, Transferring subscriptions over to Classic bikes suggests to me the thinking of ' well they're all old bikes, so why are we paying people twice to produce this stuff''
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PostPosted: 13:32 - 04 Mar 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
True. They squeezed ‘Performance Bikes’ into the middle pages of PSB for a while and it always seemed like an odd fit.
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PostPosted: 13:42 - 04 Mar 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
Kawasaki Jimbo wrote:
True. They squeezed ‘Performance Bikes’ into the middle pages of PSB for a while and it always seemed like an odd fit.


Closest fit of the lot though. I subscribed to both, then I only needed to subscribe to one. Now I need to subscribe to none. I just cancelled my Classic Motorcycle Mechanics subscription because the quality fell of a cliff. They used to have Stan Stephens column, then Allen Millyard, now they just have Andy Bolas who I suspect writes for free, because he can't write for toffee and puts an exclamation mark! every other! sentence! It's a good way to economise, just get people who aren't journalists to write for free for you. The only full time staff member is Bertie the editor, who doesn't do all that much writing himself these days. I suspect that mag will go the way of the dodo very shortly too.

Practical Sportsbikes has only increased in quality IMO with decent crossover between PB and the old PS. I mean project turbo ZX7R is immense and extremely interesting to read about. I do expect the distribution and printing angle is just bollocks, and Bauer has just decided to ditch the thing. It's such a shame. People say that "Oh people get their content from Youtube and so on now" but the best Youtube content is still not a patch on a reasonably well written and researched magazine article. I hope Newbigging and co set up their own YT channel, go it alone and then get sponsorship deals from related businesses. That would be excellent, but Bauer probably won't allow it to happen.
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PostPosted: 14:20 - 04 Mar 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
I can't read magazines on line. I don't know why, I read books on line and on a kindle but I can't stand trying to read a magazine online.

I don't know if it's just me but I would never get an online subscription or buy the odd copy like I did for a paper magazine.
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PostPosted: 14:25 - 04 Mar 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
Polarbear wrote:
I don't know if it's just me but I would never get an online subscription or buy the odd copy like I did for a paper magazine.


Which is why I would imagine why they aren't continuing online only. Also a huge income stream of the magazine is advertising, which you can't do as easily online like that. We just google for what we want rather than going to a mag and looking for a suitable advert.
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PostPosted: 15:45 - 04 Mar 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
Bummer.

A really good Magazine with well-written, original and thoughtful content. I'll miss it.

But no longer seems to carry as much full page Advertising as it did - so maybe Bauer saw the writing on the wall.

I also find I'm reading most of the other Magazines less and less.

Instead using YouTube and Forums as a way to catch-up.

Real shame though.
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PostPosted: 15:59 - 04 Mar 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
psb was the best by far
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