What Mountain Bike (What Mountain Bike)

Member Name: kensplace

Product:	What Mountain Bike
Date:	18/10/00 (2437 review reads)
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Advantages: Varied, Interesting articles

Disadvantages: quarterly

What mountain bike is another of the Mountain Bike magazines that are available on the newsagents shelves.

This one comes out only once a quarter, so its £3.75 price tag is reasonable, especially considering it is mostly content, rather than adverts.

The late summer (2000) issue covered a wide variety of topics, ranging from Bike reviews to in-depth articles on
women and mountain biking (anatomy, bike fit etc).

As with most mags, this contains its fair share of reviews of highly (in the thousands of pounds) expensive mountain bikes, which as far as Im concerned are usually owned by either a professional or a poser who can usually be overtaken by someone on a old cheap bike.

Thankfully though it contains some reviews of more modestly priced bikes, and also some actually usefull articles on repair and mainainance.

Useful route maps are included in the magazine, well perhaps I should refrase that as - usefull if you live down south or in the extreme north of scotland that is!


Overall I liked this magazine, due to its large amount of varied content, and the fact that it is not mostly composed from adverts.

If you want a mountain bike magazine with articles in it, rather than just pictures of people riding in mud, and performing stunts, then this is a great choice.

I just wish it was published more often, but then maybe that would spoil a good formula.

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