hophead
Active member
+1 definitely! I let my mcn expire several years ago after many years of subscription. Let motorcyclist subscription expire more than a year ago for reasons stated above.
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Starting to lose respect for MCN (USA) bike reviews.
- Thread starter GAJ
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+1 definitely! I let my mcn expire several years ago after many years of subscription. Let motorcyclist subscription expire more than a year ago for reasons stated above.
Banjoboy
Get over yerself!!!
- Joined
- Aug 23, 2009
- Location
- Northbay
- Moto(s)
- '07 FJR speedshifter ('07 FJR, :rip ) '07 FZ6 (dirt bike)
- Name
- ANorris
Yeah, I gave up on this sucky rag (after 18 yrs) few years back when they tested the FJR, C14, and K1300GT. The winner of the "shoot out" was their BMW R1200GS mule that hauled their camera gear. 
Now, that in itself ain't bad, cuz you could say the GS is more versatile, but it's a totally different beast, and shouldn't even been in the comparo. When they judged the motor and tranny ta be better than the rest, I knew they wuz hit'in the crack pipe hard.
(Have'in just came from a whimpy, weak sauce R1200 motor, 'n tractor like tranny of a BMw, to the smooth way more powerful FJR, I knew this wuz total 
)
Bu bye MCN, you SUCK
) The two of us couldn't pick the beast up. Luckily 4 real men came, 'n got the pig back on the rubber side. 
Now, that in itself ain't bad, cuz you could say the GS is more versatile, but it's a totally different beast, and shouldn't even been in the comparo. When they judged the motor and tranny ta be better than the rest, I knew they wuz hit'in the crack pipe hard.
(Have'in just came from a whimpy, weak sauce R1200 motor, 'n tractor like tranny of a BMw, to the smooth way more powerful FJR, I knew this wuz total )Bu bye MCN, you SUCK
ah think the wee duz weigh 951 lbs! I dun tried help'in Rodr pick his up after he bailed (as seen HERE (Go down ta Rayhouse Road video, and fast forward ta 12 min.
) The two of us couldn't pick the beast up. Luckily 4 real men came, 'n got the pig back on the rubber side. 
rsrider
47% parasite 53% ahole
- Joined
- Apr 9, 2003
- Location
- earth; for now
- Moto(s)
- 2014 Monster 796 --2001 Triumph Sprint RS -- 2013 Vespa GTS Super--
2019 Ninja 400
- Name
- Toast
Every opinion is biasd to some degree. I don't take any review, in any magazine, to heart. But, if you get a consensus from different sources, you have a good idea of what sucks and what doesn't. If there are errors, I chalk it up to the fact that the people who write the articles are human. MCN didn't really give me that much more than the regular mags I get, and it is expensive. You can get Motorcyclist, Cycle World, and Sport Rider subscriptions for under $10 a year each, if you're patient and look around. If my subscriptions run out, I just wait for the magical $10 and below price point and then renew. You can piss away $30 on lunch, so it's worth having 3 MC mags delivered to my door by skipping a meal. With the net, you can get as much info on any MC that you could possibly want, and then some The magazines are something you can do while pooping after the batteries go dead on your game boy.
louemc
New member
Getting trusted belief shattered, comes hard. Remember, finding out that everyone including your parents, were lying about a fat guy in a red suit, flying through the sky behind a bunch of reindeer?
Now the bigger quetion, is why believe motorcycle testers? There is an alternative...and the answer can be found, within your self. And it will suit you better, than what someone else has to say...because it is your answer, your bike as you use it.
You made your bike right, because you knew what to do, and how to do it, and when you change...you change your bike, as well.
Now the bigger quetion, is why believe motorcycle testers? There is an alternative...and the answer can be found, within your self. And it will suit you better, than what someone else has to say...because it is your answer, your bike as you use it.
You made your bike right, because you knew what to do, and how to do it, and when you change...you change your bike, as well.
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Pushrod
Well-known member
I've been on bikes since 1968 and have subscribed to all the magazines at one time or another. MCN included.
Dropped every subscription over time for the same reason. No variety in the writing, just boilerplate verbiage month after month. With the kaleidoscopic span of motorcycling and the plethora of personalities out there, surely there are more keyboard peckers than just Jack Lewis and (now gone) John Burns giving us distaff dissembling.
MCN descended into hackness, while the commercial magazines raised pandering to new records blandness. Makes political campaigns seem imaginative.
Finding B.A.R.F. was such a relief from mediocrity that I bless the day I registered.
Dropped every subscription over time for the same reason. No variety in the writing, just boilerplate verbiage month after month. With the kaleidoscopic span of motorcycling and the plethora of personalities out there, surely there are more keyboard peckers than just Jack Lewis and (now gone) John Burns giving us distaff dissembling.
MCN descended into hackness, while the commercial magazines raised pandering to new records blandness. Makes political campaigns seem imaginative.
Finding B.A.R.F. was such a relief from mediocrity that I bless the day I registered.
louemc
New member
Welcome aboard, PushRod .. Hope You can visit/ride California, if you haven't, and especially the beyond the conjestion, parts.
(but all the parts have their very cool parts).
(but all the parts have their very cool parts).