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Submitted by
brian
a Downhiller
from alaska
Date Reviewed: December 27, 2007 | | Favorite Trail: | just get out and ride... | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Price Paid: |
$9.99 | | Purchased At: | Barnes & Nobles, Borders... | | Strengths: | GREAT mag. Great product reviews etc, GREAT DIY (how too's)... I look forward to ever issue... | | Weaknesses: | $9.99 ea. for over the sea readers... | | Similar Products Used: | Dirt, and Decline magazines... | | Bike Setup: | 2004 Specialized Big Hit; 2007 Specialized P2 cr-mo; 2002 Specialized Rockhopper... | | Bottom Line: | GREAT mag. This is for FR/DH/DJ. This magazine is geared to the Freerider; Downhiller; Dirt Jumper. XC rides can get some great tips on how to ride steep trails, how to handle fast, off negative corners, how to setup your bike, etc... How many XC riders do you see getting any kind of air??? Not many. I do a little XC riding myself. But it's not really geared for the up tight, Lycra wearing XC riders... For XC, get What MTB, or???
Can't We All Just Get A Long??? :)
www.myspace.com/brian_404 | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Jaggi
a Cross Country Rider
from Finland
Date Reviewed: December 30, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | Tested or demo'ed only | | Strengths: | Well, the paper is good quality!
Girls are nice to look at. | | Weaknesses: | Made by kids for....themselfs? | | Bottom Line: | "Its obvious this mag is aimed at 14 year old kids, with its childish reveiws and bullsh*t letters page!"
I agree 100%! There's nothing to read, just lame bulls..
Zero chili's! | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
j p
a Downhiller
from s
Date Reviewed: April 18, 2005 | | Favorite Trail: | kl | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$4.00 | | Purchased At: | barnes& nobles | | Strengths: | funny, good content | | Weaknesses: | expensive | | Bottom Line: | pick up a copy | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Chris
a Weekend Warrior
from Ottawa, Canada
Date Reviewed: September 18, 2004 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$8.00 | | Purchased At: | Chapters | | Strengths: | Lots of cool product reviews. Lots of advertisements and stuff for sale. Cool pics too. Lots of freeriding stuff, thats always great. | | Weaknesses: | Came with a free tool that doesnt perform up to par.The price. | | Bottom Line: | If you like freeriding, this is the mag for you. Other than the price, its great. And their's so much stuff in it, you'll have plenty to read until you get the next issue. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Wils
a
from Bromley, UK
Date Reviewed: April 25, 2004 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Price Paid: |
$6.00 | | Purchased At: | WH Smiths | | Strengths: | Workshop section is usually good.
| | Weaknesses: | Some sections are pure filler (does anyone need to learn how to cook lasagne from a bike mag?). | | Similar Products Used: | What MTB, MBR, Singletrack magazine | | Bike Setup: | Spesh Enduro | | Bottom Line: | I'm not sure what happened to MBUK - five or six years ago it used to be great; easily the best mountain biking magazine around at the time. I got back into biking again last year and started reading it again, and it's rubbish.
It quite often reads like a bunch of students writing a magazine for their own amusement.
There are some good articles, but they feel like they've been shoved in to pad out the magazine rather than written as a big feature by one of the editorial staff.
Some issues you can squarely divide the magazine in two and say which bits were written by the same people who also write for What MTB (and are consequently worth reading), and which were written by the MBUK lot pissed down the pub at lunchtime.
Oh, and £3.75? Way too steep, although to be fair it doesn't contain as many ads as MBR. | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
mike
a
from UK
Date Reviewed: November 30, 2003 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Strengths: | occassional worthless free "gift" | | Weaknesses: | everything. | | Similar Products Used: | Dirt. (though not similar cos this mag rocks.) | | Bottom Line: | This mag jumps on every riding bandwagon going. When i first bought this mag about 10 years ago xc was in and when i pick it up 10 years later theres no xc, instead its full of downhill and dirt jumping, its obvious this mag is aimed at 14 year old kids, with its childish reveiws and bullsh*t letters page. go check the web page and youll see the average age of the reader.
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Submitted by
Chunky
a Weekend Warrior
from Northampton
Date Reviewed: August 21, 2003 | | Favorite Trail: | Dalby Forest - Red | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Purchased At: | Leisure Lakes | | Strengths: | Got free grips with it.
You can scrape the mud off your bike with it. | | Weaknesses: | Jumping & drop off mag, NOT a mountain biking mag apart from the adverts.
Cost too much. | | Bottom Line: | Obviously not for the mountain bikers I know. What about some trails, where to go for a good ride instead of show us your T*ts pictures!! If I wanted to see that i'd buy Max Power or a proper porno mag. To top it all try getting a reply more than a couple of words from their support team. I mistakingly asked them if their subscription offer was still open and received a mail back saying "No"!! Well thanks for the info chaps, don't you want any subscribers?
I replied asking them what sort of response was that and saying that I was surprised they have any clients. Then I received one back "ok, thanks"...What the hell kind of way to run a business is that?
Anyway, won't be buying anything printed by Future Publishing ever again if I can help it. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Scott
a
from AK
Date Reviewed: August 2, 2003 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Bottom Line: | I kind of agree with the last review. The reason I bought this outragously priced mag ($7.50 USD) was because it came with a pair of free Pro-Grip brand grips. The mag was interesting in that it was from the U.K. The writing took some time to decipher and I dug the nudey pics but otherwise I'd rather read MBA or Mountain Biking. Still I got a pair of grips for half price along with the mag so I really shouldn't complain.
Don't buy for full price or you will be ripped off! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Scott
a
from AK
Date Reviewed: August 2, 2003 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Bottom Line: | I kind of agree with the last review. The reason I bought this outragously priced mag ($7.50 USD) was because it came with a pair of free Pro-Grip brand grips. The mag was interesting in that it was from the U.K. The writing took some time to decipher and I dug the nudey pics but otherwise I'd rather read MBA or Mountain Biking. Still I got a pair of grips for half price along with the mag so I really shouldn't complain.
Don't buy for full price or you will be ripped off! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Scott
a
from AK
Date Reviewed: August 2, 2003 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Bottom Line: | I kind of agree with the last review. The reason I bought this outragously priced mag ($7.50 USD) was because it came with a pair of free Pro-Grip brand grips. The mag was interesting in that it was from the U.K. The writing took some time to decipher and I dug the nudey pics but otherwise I'd rather read MBA or Mountain Biking. Still I got a pair of grips for half price along with the mag so I really shouldn't complain.
Don't buy for full price or you will be ripped off! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Kayser
a Weekend Warrior
from Brighton, England
Date Reviewed: May 4, 2003 | | Favorite Trail: | Anywhere in the Pennines | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Price Paid: |
$6.00 | | Purchased At: | Corner Shop | | Strengths: | Occasionally useful freebies (bottle openers, grips, etc)
Hmmm..... | | Weaknesses: | MBUK either aims its magazine at the pre pubescent population or purposely treat its readership like rhesus monkeys. | | Similar Products Used: | MBR, MBA and What Mountain Bike | | Bike Setup: | Orange SUB5, Psylos, Hope XC4's, Chris King, Easton, Answer yadi yadi ya | | Bottom Line: | MBUK are in the privilidges position of being the most well established bike magazine in the uk, meaning that they are able to get the newest products and run tests on them while their competitors are merely commenting on them. Problem is that they are too concerned with the lifestyle attatched to their chosen discipline, namely the 'daanhilla' or the dirt jumper. Its all about biggin up the celebrity biker like Warner and Peat while making sure their products are freely splashed all over the mag. Don't get me wrong though, Peat's efforts are admirable, but everything else to do with the sport suffers. All i ends up doing is hailing these people as heroes or demi gods. This is not just one issue, this happens every issue, and frankly if you are are reader with hair in your nether regions, it does get a bit boring. If you want to read about what Dave Wardell got up to on bonfire night or what Will Longden will be mostly wearing.. then this is your bag, if you want to read unbiased reviews and well written articles buy MBR or MBA and if you want dirt jumping or DH but Dirt. In short, this magazine will cater very well to todays lifestyle and celebrity obsessed readership who are more worried about whats cool and following trends than those few it seems, who simply want to what they love regardless of wether its cool or not. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Ian (it's easier on a Ducati)
a Weekend Warrior
from UK
Date Reviewed: January 5, 2003 | | Favorite Trail: | not found it yet | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Price Paid: |
$4.00 | | Purchased At: | price in UK pounds | | Strengths: | lots of adverts if that is what you want? | | Weaknesses: | far too many adverts, not very well written, - very childish. | | Similar Products Used: | this is the first MTb mag I have bought in a few years, - and the last time I will buy this one. | | Bike Setup: | Trek 90 Fuel, specialized S- Works Steel , Specialized M2, have owned Cannondales, Fat Chance Yo Eddy, Kleins. | | Bottom Line: | I bought the first ever issue of this mag, - have been away from MTB'ing for about 7 years, - and find the mag still has the same boring faces and attitude it did 7 years ago. This is not imo good journalism. I feel it is written for teenagers, - and was a very disapointing read, - what read? I could not find an article worth finishing.
Ok I am over 30 so perhaps the mag is not aimed at me, - fair enough.
Off to search for US mags aimed at more serious readers.
Pitty you scale of flamin red chillis does not include negative numbers. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Josh
a Weekend Warrior
from Hull
Date Reviewed: November 20, 2002 | | Favorite Trail: | Brans Burton Dirt Jumps!!!!!! | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$6.00 | | Purchased At: | Local Newsagents | | Strengths: | Exellent magazine, informative, has good photos and exellent reviews.There are alot of of product advertisements in the mag but that good because i was looking for a stem and with the help of the mag i found the perfect one! | | Weaknesses: | not enough dirt/freestyle! | | Similar Products Used: | What mountainbike magazine and DIG. | | Bike Setup: | Diamond back. | | Bottom Line: | This is a good magazine and it anoys me when people say its borin, because it aint! i guarante that the people who have said its a boring mag havent actually read it! just looked at the pictures!!! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
David
a
from Singapore
Date Reviewed: June 11, 2002 | | Favorite Trail: | trials? i ride trials | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$7.00 | | Strengths: | only thing that's nice is that it covers a bit of trials... that's about it really | | Weaknesses: | reviews are UTTER RUBBISH... i feel like i'm reading a lousy porn magazine or something, why do they always group test the stupid budget bikes? hopeless website, expensive where i am... rob warner and steve peat are the only DH riders that exist to them, how many typo errors CAN somebody have? | | Similar Products Used: | mba, mtbr, (lots more i can't remember) | | Bike Setup: | echo with trials set up | | Bottom Line: | it's only good if you ride trials or dirt or street... anythin else, avoid like plague | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
alex mee
a Cross Country Rider
from england
Date Reviewed: April 18, 2002 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$6.00 | | Strengths: | i am a new to te sport and i have found that MBUK has allowed me to spend my hard erned cash wisely, and i am now enjoying the sport. the comments by "Me" show exactly why people try to stay away from other riders, your attitude i wrong. just because you have been riding a while dosent mean that you are the only people that the mag is concerned for. it should be a mixture of both aspects of riding, if it is too specialised the market for the mag decreases and the price will therefore increase. | | Weaknesses: | i found the mag informative and light hearted to read, but i do agree that there is too much "urban baggy trousered kids" in it. | | Similar Products Used: | what mountain bike | | Bottom Line: | i am a new to te sport and i have found that MBUK has allowed me to spend my hard erned cash wisely, and i am now enjoying the sport. the comments by "Me" show exactly why people try to stay away from other riders, your attitude i wrong. just because you have been riding a while dosent mean that you are the only people that the mag is concerned for. it should be a mixture of both aspects of riding, if it is too specialised the market for the mag decreases and the price will therefore increase.
i found the mag informative and light hearted to read, but i do agree that there is too much "urban baggy trousered kids" in it. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Me
a Downhiller
from UK
Date Reviewed: December 4, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Strengths: | Price lists in the adverts. | | Weaknesses: | writing style. Reviews. Articles. Race coverage. Blatant corporatisim. Etc Etc | | Similar Products Used: | Dirt
MBR
Austrailian one
Mountain Biker | | Bike Setup: | Frame, wheels, transmition, forks etc | | Bottom Line: | what a peice of S&%T. I thought the writing style was cool when i was about 12, now, it's just gay. The reviews are occasionaly reasonable, but you can't help but notice that their team sponsors products ALWAYS seem to be the best on test (surprising, that!) (i'm sure that the scott DH bike will be "the best you can buy" this year, just as the Jamis and specialised have been). I must have read this rag for a few years and i have seen about 4 DH bikes tested, and NEVER a DH group test. EVERY month the group test is on budget bikes !BORING! who gives a s*&t if they are the most sold type of bikes? the average person reading MBUK is not going to be buying a £200 bike!! they realise you need to spend a bit more than that to go off road seriously.
The articles are totaly crap, either clearly sponsored, or just crap, like underwater bike riding?!? the wheels were zip tied to the frame for christs sake!! how is that riding?? The race coverage is non existent, the stuff that is there is packed into a page spread of s%*t race coverage or reports. The Worlds race coverage only covers Steve Peat and Will longden.
All the articles should have a 'SPONSORED BY...' thing at the bottom, just so there is no confusion.
Bottom line....
This mag doesn't make me want to go out and ride, it makes riding look cheap, cheesy, juvenile and up-for-sale. You could argue that its just a laugh, but all it does is make riding feel cheap, i don't want such a big part of my life to portrayed like that.
Buy DIRT!!!!! www.4130.com This mag is written by people who live the life, are actually at the races and seem to have a real passion for riding. It just makes me want to quit work and ride ride ride!!! Pure inspiration.
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Submitted by
andy bliss
a Cross Country Rider
from cornwall, england
Date Reviewed: November 16, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | chacewater, cornwall | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Price Paid: |
$5.00 | | Purchased At: | newsagents | | Strengths: | It's thick so you can prop tables up with it. Technical tips, bike reviews. | | Weaknesses: | too much jumping, not enough xc coverage | | Similar Products Used: | mbr, Total Mountain Bike (as was) and the long lamented and fondly remembered Maximum Mountain Bike | | Bike Setup: | Marin East Peak 2000, stock apart from Tioga Factory xc tyres | | Bottom Line: | I used to rate this mag when I first got into the sport, then discovered Maximum Mountain Bike and saw how it really should be done. MBUK now seems to be shifting its target market to kids jumping off car parks and bus shelters in baggy trousers. I am an adult and I ride cross country so that's what I want to read. I can read MBUK stood in the newsagents, and never need to buy it, (so why the hell am I complaining?) | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Brian
a Cross Country Rider
from UK
Date Reviewed: November 16, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Strengths: | Useful as toliet paper if I've run out. | | Weaknesses: | Pretty much everything else. | | Similar Products Used: | Most other magazines | | Bike Setup: | Doesnt matter, this review is about a so-called magazine | | Bottom Line: | Well, like the reviewer below (Gareth), I have read this magazine on and off since the early 90s. Ive also noticed the sad demise in this magazine's quality.
It used to contain useful and informative articles, and was a genuinely interesting read.
Then it began to take a severe nose dive, and a brown nose at that! (linked to Gareth's review below).
Gone were most of the decent articles, and more and more pictures of Rob Warner's arse began appearing, as well as pictures of Britain's "finest" riders lounging around in trashed hotel rooms brinking as much beer as they could get their hands on. Quite why Rob Warner needs to do this is beyond me, but maybe he likes exposing his arse when other males are around him?! I dont know...
Anyway, I agree with the cheap porn mag image that a few other reviewers have commented about. I think the editorial team are aiming this "magazine" at teenage kids who couldnt legally buy a proper porn mag.
The magazine seems determined to promote riders to adopt a hooligan attitude. The magazine used to promote readers to take care of the places they ride (try to avoid trail abuse, such as skidding etc...), but now it seems to promote loutish behaviour, and a lack of respect for other land users. Well, either that or they feature some kids jumping, hardly what should be called mountain biking. Maybe they should call it DJUK. Seems a more appropriate title for it.
I dont find the reviews helpful anymore, and the writing style is often very childish.
I hardly ever buy this magazine any more, and when I do, it is only for the shop adverts.
Bottom Line? Used to be a good magazine; sadly not any more. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Gareth
a Cross Country Rider
from UK
Date Reviewed: November 15, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Strengths: | Mail order shops, occasionally a nice advert to look at. | | Weaknesses: | Over simplistic journalism, relentless brown-nosing of certain racers, rarely any articles interesting enough to read, the apparent target audience of sad, small dicked teenagers, the list could go on for quite a while... | | Similar Products Used: | Most other moutain bike magazines. | | Bike Setup: | Bullit, Jr. Ts, Race Face parts, Hope brakes... | | Bottom Line: | I've bought MBUK on and off since the early 90s, when it used to be a decent magazine containing interesting and useful articles and reviews. I never buy it now, as the magazine has taken a sad turn for the worse. The magazine, as so many people in this review have said, is more like a badly produced porn magazine for thick and ignorant British teenagers, who ride around the streets posing, whilst claiming to be "mountain bikers". I would imagine that most current readers have never ventured off road, and certainly never got their expensive, from rich "mummy and daddy", bikes dirty. To me, the magazine now opitomises the sorry state of "cool" Britain; foul mouthed, arrogant teenagers pretending to be bikers, whilst slagging off real cyclists, such as cross-country riders and roadies (just for the record, I am not a roadie, and I don't wear lycra).
Furthermore, the journalists for this pathetic excuse of a "mountain bike" magazine are constantly sucking up to the likes of Peat and Warner. Whilst both have produced amazing World Cup victories, please stop treating them as though they are Gods. They are both illiterate simpletons, and I certainly don't think they are worthy of role-model status. There is also a long standing, and somewhat unhealthy obsession with Jamie Tomkins. OK, so he might be good, but I for one, would rather see some other kids featured from time to time, instead of the constant, "isn't he wonderful, girls love him, etc" lines that we are fed. If girls think he's that desirable, then it doesn't say much for their standards.
Reading the magazine makes me depressed that I live in this sorry excuse of a country, Britain. There is nothing remotely cool about MBUK, the people featured in it, or even those it tries to appeal to. MBUK should reconsider it's name and loose the "MB", as there's no longer any "mountian biking" featured in this magazine. Call it DJUK (Dirt Jumping UK) or something. Oh, and one last thing; please get rid of those half naked, dog ugly, butch women like promoting so much.
Bottom line: DO NOT BUY, unless you are a sad, no-brained British teenager, under the false impression that you and your friends are "cool". | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Graeme
a Weekend Warrior
from UK
Date Reviewed: November 14, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Price Paid: |
$6.00 | | Purchased At: | Wollys | | Strengths: | Reveiws articals pics evrything | | Weaknesses: | uuuuuuuuummmmmmmmm cr*p website | | Similar Products Used: | what mountain bike. mbr. ride bmx. sidewalk skate mag. | | Bike Setup: | paper and ink | | Bottom Line: | Brillent witty imformative. but £3.90 is a bit much. This mag covers evrything about mountain bikeing xc dh dual dirt and trials, somthing for evryone. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Jumpa
a Downhiller
from Christchurch, New Zealand
Date Reviewed: October 16, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Price Paid: |
$6.00 | | Purchased At: | A shop | | Strengths: | Everything!! | | Weaknesses: | Nothing. | | Similar Products Used: | Dirt, Mountain Bike Action, Australian Mountain Bike, Mountain Bike. | | Bike Setup: | Diamondback Jump Comp, Marzocchi Z5, Deore | | Bottom Line: | This mag is a great read, it has heaps of reading and great pics, it also comes with free stuff all the time like allen keys and grips etc. They have sections writen by Steve Peat (#2 in the world of downhill) and sections writen by other stars as well. Theres heaps of different sections and the writers all joke around in that good old british sence of humor. Overall its a great magazine well worth a read. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Steve Coldicott
a Weekend Warrior
from Birmingham
Date Reviewed: September 18, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | Clent Hills | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Price Paid: |
$3.00 | | Purchased At: | Newsagents | | Strengths: | Still a good read...just, you feel like the writers know what they are talking about, covers a whole range of aspects within mountain biking, sponsors up and coming riders, good race reviews, seems to have a good relationship with the 'stars', gets to see a lot of new products beefore other mags, the reviews are good. | | Weaknesses: | But despite the above it's still not as good as it used to be!. To much emphasis on trials and duel etc and not enough on xc - i have an old issue with Barrie Clarke on the front, you wouldn't get that now!. Rob Warner - was a great downhiller, but now it's time to hang up your etnies!. Aimed at 14 year olds, but still manages to put the odd bit in for us 'more mature' readers! | | Similar Products Used: | Dirt - good for DH, MBR - very dull, MTB Pro - the Daddy, sadly missed! | | Bike Setup: | XC risers | | Bottom Line: | I'll still buy it, butit's not as good as it used to be | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
martin pearce
a Downhiller
from dorset
Date Reviewed: August 22, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Price Paid: |
$5.00 | | Strengths: | none very boring | | Weaknesses: | everything | | Similar Products Used: | dirt it was great | | Bike Setup: | ms isle, hope ,xvert,halo | | Bottom Line: | awful | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Marcus Goffin
a Cross Country Rider
from Plymouth, Devon
Date Reviewed: August 17, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Price Paid: |
$5.00 | | Purchased At: | Anywhere | | Strengths: | It used to be good, or do I just mean better than it is now. The 6 pages of the 3 bikes normally reviewed per issure are normally worth a look. | | Weaknesses: | Nowadays it is just filled with over opinionated crap. The features have no serious content and fail to be either informative or entertaining. Recently it has tended towards becoming a rather poor quality porn mag. It generally contains pictures of 15 year kids, jumping off bus shelters, I guess these are their target market. | | Similar Products Used: | What Mountain Bike, Total Bike (Quality Magazine long ago) | | Bottom Line: | If you want a serious mountain bike magazine buy What Mountain bike, its much more informative, although it can be quite hard to get hold of | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
KW Chew
a Weekend Warrior
from Newcastle
Date Reviewed: May 30, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | Single track | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Price Paid: |
$6.00 | | Purchased At: | Fenwick | | Strengths: | Occasional good quaterly product reviews, trail reviews, some adventure trip reviews, news update ... lately ...nnaaahh! | | Weaknesses: | Running out of materials to write? Is MBUK switching their market focus to 12 - 17 years old now ? You think that market provides you the best source of income ? If so I guess I just have to stay away from MBUK now having bought every issues of your mag for 2 yrs. You think you are cool ? Now MBUK let's be honest do you think I cannot swear as good as you in the mag ? Why don't you get some more fresh materials to write ? Your mum will be disappointed if I start swearing in your face and your dad will be disappointed you cannot swear as good as me. Wonder if your marketing team is doing what they suppose to do and if the editor(s) think attitude sells more mag ... You might as well change your mag to MBUK Downhill simple! I don't have to buy it anymore. | | Similar Products Used: | Mbr, long time ago Mountain Biking Action (US mag) and I always buy two mags Mbr and MBUK ... but I'll stop MBUK now. | | Bike Setup: | Dekerf Implant 2000 ... blah blah blah bloody expensive! | | Bottom Line: | I have never missed (well one or two )an issues of MBUK & Mbr since Sept 99. But for whatever reasons ... MBUK is getting a little s**te in their last 6 issues. Their quarterly mag is very good. But I guess they are just not very creative in coming up with fresh materials to write anymore. I am not a downhiller but I do read them but if you have an overdose of downhiller all the time you will puke. Not too much mate. Get new editor(s) and fire the present ones as they are out of date mate. Cool ? My arse!
For downhillers - you've found your dream mag. You can w**K it off looking at those downhillers ... ooohhhmm ... Feeling gay ? You should be now.
For XC - sorry mate you're not welcome here they will abuse you. Go away ... this mag is not for you. MBUK is Village People mate.
For trails - eerr ... nice tricks mate. Keep it up.
Others - Go read Mbr or Mountain Biking Action ... they are more neutral and nicer to read too. Oh ya the guy with the goaty in Mbr who rides Specialized softail ... looks a bit like my mate ... I am going to kick his arse.
I still give MBUK 2 Chilis coz from now on I intend to only read them at the book store and not buy them ... so safe my money for other mags. Cheerio! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Mark
a Weekend Warrior
from Southampton, Hants, UK
Date Reviewed: May 30, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Strengths: | Advertisements from the major mail order places. Occasional useful free gift (ie watch strap I used to hold cables to my swingarm). News about new equipment and bikes. Mint Sauce. | | Weaknesses: | Downhill downhill downhill. I like downhill, but I'm really sick of hearing how fantastic the MBUK team are at downhilling and jumping and how (coincidentally) the bikes team MBUK ride are amazing. This magazine used to be a great read, but over the last few years it's become more and more juvenille (swearing, childish reviews) and less and less useful as a source of information and adivce. | | Similar Products Used: | MBR, MTB Pro (defunct), MBI | | Bike Setup: | 2001 Rockhopper, Hope Mini | | Bottom Line: | If you want a magazine full of schoolkids doing 35ft jumps you'll love it. If you want a magazine with useful reviews and interesting articles you'll hate it. Read MBR instead, it's great. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Stas
a Weekend Warrior
from Slovenia
Date Reviewed: May 9, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | Pohorje | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Strengths: | Great pictures
Nice reviews, especially DH and freeride gear
Strange stories
Tips and tricks | | Weaknesses: | Very English
Too local
A bit sexist | | Similar Products Used: | MTB Pro (when it still existed), Bike Magazine (Germany), Mountain Bike (US), Grif (SLO) | | Bike Setup: | Giant XcX DS2 | | Bottom Line: | It's a great mag if you are English. Or if you're into DH, DS, trials and freeride. I think those Brits have some self esteem problems, since they focus mostly on DH. And UK is especially known for its great mountains and steep hills... You look tougher if you ride a mean looking bike. But in the end the mag is very good if not great for certain tastes. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
marcus
a Weekend Warrior
from New Romney, Kent, England
Date Reviewed: April 30, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | street | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | DA DON, has da best products, much cheapness, an lots off fun stuff to read, such as martyn | | Weaknesses: | none | | Bike Setup: | Trail | | Bottom Line: | DA DON!!!!! ITS DA MUTS NUTS | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
James Richmond
a Weekend Warrior
from Scotland
Date Reviewed: February 27, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | anywhere | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$3.00 | | Purchased At: | a shop | | Strengths: | Extremely funny,really good reviews on bikes,accesories. Great free gifts. Ace articles hype | | Weaknesses: | none | | Similar Products Used: | mbr (dont make me laugh) | | Bike Setup: | good | | Bottom Line: | Why do all the xc people complain? It reviews plenty of xc bikes(which is actually quite annoying) Go out there right now and buy it | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
guy sdjffksd
a Downhiller
from derybh
Date Reviewed: February 24, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$6.00 | | Purchased At: | A SHOP (DUH) | | Strengths: | good for dhillers and duel should not have XC in it should concentrate on DH | | Weaknesses: | once a month | | Bottom Line: | good mag needs more DH and duel in it. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Joe
a Weekend Warrior
from Birmingham, Uk
Date Reviewed: February 14, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | Trials! | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Purchased At: | A shop | | Strengths: | Cool | | Weaknesses: | Only comes out once a month! | | Similar Products Used: | Ermmmmm... its a magazine... durr! | | Bike Setup: | Trials! Yeah! | | Bottom Line: | Something for everyone from jump to trials to xc.etc...
And its British! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
The Spelling Police
a Cross Country Rider
from South Wales
Date Reviewed: February 8, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Strengths: | Useful one-off purchase when looking for dealers/prices of new equipment. | | Weaknesses: | infantile writing style. | | Bottom Line: | Absolutely terrible editorial content unless you are under 15 (age or I.Q.).
Compare the spelling, grammar and writing style of the reviewers that have raved about MBUK on this forum with those that have slated it, and you will get a good idea of who this rag is amined at.
One Chilli is a Chilli too many!
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Submitted by
Doug
a
from Peterborough, England
Date Reviewed: January 15, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Similar Products Used: | MBR (UK) | | Bike Setup: | Cannondale F2000, Lefty, Hope | | Bottom Line: | I don't know if you have noticed, but all the good reviews for this mag were by downhillers, jumpers, trials riders and teenagers, and all the bad reviews were by xc riders. This mag is for young, extreme riders, not older xc racers. So if you are a x-country'er then avoid. If not, buy. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Anthony
a Cross Country Rider
from Brighton
Date Reviewed: September 15, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | South Downs wAY | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Bottom Line: | Okay lets get this straight, the mag does tender to the most popular form of the sport which at the moment is freeriding, tricks and downhill, therefore it sells more copies, if this were to change to XC riding, they would write about that. It use to be good, its got worse, the only redeeming feature is the XC route maps, Mint Sauce and the fix a bike sections. If you’re 10 to 17 year old age bracket you will love it. Any older and you will want to read about something a bit more mature. It’s a great mag for teens. Not so good for anyone else. There a review of it without having to resort to swear words or petty insults.
2 chilis for the route maps and Mint Sauce which are great. But not worth buying it for. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
MARTIN (yahoo name is uk_trialsrider)
a
from UK essex
Date Reviewed: August 30, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | the town | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Purchased At: | a shop | | Strengths: | loads of good reviews
not alot of XC
FAT
cool free gifts
lots of trials + dh + jumps
funny
alot about 'the martins' | | Weaknesses: | sometimes they have stuff about XC | | Similar Products Used: | mbi (rubbish)
mbr (even more rubbish)
extreme mtb (rubbish)
total bike (ok, but not alot of trials) | | Bike Setup: | saracen x-ess, dmr forks, grimeca disks, dmr bashguard, fsa crank, tioga stem + bars + front tyre, hutchinson jumbo rear tyre, shimano sora mech, sram shifter, rob warner pedals, planet x saddle, zac2000 rims, | | Bottom Line: | the best mountain bike mag (but not for xc riders though)
bye it | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Mad Gus
a Weekend Warrior
from Ireland
Date Reviewed: August 30, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | anyhing steep, up or down | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Strengths: | Detailed Reviews
Nice Pics
Mint Sauce
Fat Tires
Flat Pedals
Long travel | | Weaknesses: | only 12/13 a year
sometimes sells out before i can get it
importers to Ireland make ridiculous cash out of doing so - we pay two quid or so above the odds
| | Similar Products Used: | MBR
MBA
whatever other s#!&e is in the newsagents that i can read for free | | Bike Setup: | klein pulse, 99 XT group, crosslinks, Z5, thompson elite, flite ti, wildgripper Hot S (sweet) | | Bottom Line: | this is by far the best mountain biking magazine to be got around here. they appreciate that most of us do ride for fun, not out of some masochistic anorexic roadie desire to shave pounds off ourselves or our bikes for the sake of it. Any fool can go up a hill fast with a bit of practice, far more satisfaction is to be gained by nailing that reverse camber turn on the downhill, floating the bike over logs and rocks or flicking the back to the side in mid-air. these people know that is the case, unlike some others i could mention | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Erlend Bjelkaroy
a Downhiller
from Maaloey - Norway
Date Reviewed: August 7, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | Kvalheims-veien | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Strengths: | Everything: Thick! Real mountainbiking(Downhill, trial and dirt-jumping) Allmost no roadie stuff(XC)...
| | Weaknesses: | Ummmmm... Only 12 issues a year??? | | Similar Products Used: | Offroad/Sykkelmagasinet(Norwegian), Mountainbike Action(USA), Mountainbike(USA), Bike(USA??) +++ | | Bike Setup: | Gt I-drive w/Judy 100, mavic 221, tioga DH tyre, LX... (Freeride/Downhill)
Kona Roast reebuilt! (my trial bike) | | Bottom Line: | This mag. kicks arse!!!
Just buy it! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
gene davis
a Weekend Warrior
from wheatley heights,ny-usa
Date Reviewed: August 4, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | any and all | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | reviews , massive amounts of info,deals and pictures. | | Weaknesses: | childish writing | | Similar Products Used: | mountain bike,mountain bike action and bike to name a few. | | Bike Setup: | giant rainier se with lx crank , xt front and rear derailleurs and azonic stem. | | Bottom Line: | this mag is so full of info. i wish we had something like this for the usa mountain biking scene. the british mags are allways loaded like this. maybe someday........ | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
frog
a
from UK
Date Reviewed: August 4, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | Tested or demo'ed only | | Strengths: | ... | | Weaknesses: | It exists | | Similar Products Used: | Kleenex Velvet, Andrex Supersoft, Daily Mail | | Bike Setup: | profiled scandium retro wooden space frame, singlespeed air shifting seat clamp, trials play disc, urban assault grips, neoprene unityres. | | Bottom Line: | I loathe this rag, it's written by a bunch of inadequate bandwagon jumping fanboys who wish that MTBing was as 'cool' and x-treme as they think board sports are. GET OVER IT. It's cliquey and over familiar with all their top riding 'mates' - like we care?
Absolute bilge. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
alan
a Weekend Warrior
from currently europe
Date Reviewed: June 11, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | depends from the mood | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Strengths: | nice overall | | Weaknesses: | WHY DO THESE GUYS KEEP ON PROMOTING ALCHOL SO HEAVILY?
(i've had my good dose of the stuff)
too may ads
too many trials and jumpy bikes
| | Similar Products Used: | mountain bike pro
mountain biker international
performance cyclist
bicycle mag
| | Bike Setup: | cannondale mtb f500 | | Bottom Line: | interesting overall but somewhat babish
love steve worland, mtbing guru
tests too many cheap bikes
sometimes i feel they are biased but have given a lot of good reviews
love the new inside posters
not as good as mountain bike pro for XC, which i can't find | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Tom Hemsley
a Weekend Warrior
from Pembrokeshire
Date Reviewed: May 20, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | um..old grannys crooked nose woods | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Strengths: | Really Good. Free MBUK finger bike. | | Weaknesses: | None | | Similar Products Used: | Total Bike, Maximum Mountain Bike, Some CRAP American ones (really CRAP) | | Bike Setup: | Coyote DS, Rhino Lites, DMR V12s, XT Short Cage Rear Mech, LX Splined Cranks, Club Roost Grips (red), Judy Race Forks, FSA Pig Headset, DDG CNC stem (80mm), World Force Bars, LX radipfire shifters (98), Specialized Dirt Tyres, GT Tubes, LX hubs, Wipperman Chain, XT Self Extracting Crank Bolts, XTR Vs, Avid 2.0 Levers, XTR Cables, Xlite pss2 saddle, Kalloy Seatpost, DMR Bashring (32 tooth), DCD (with a union Jack sticker on it), Oddesey Titanium Brake Booster. Im sure u wanted to know all that, well now u do. | | Bottom Line: | Great magazine. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Marek Kovar
a Weekend Warrior
from Prague, Czech Republic
Date Reviewed: February 7, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | if it's not flat then it's greeeeeeat! | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Strengths: | reviews of stuff, bike test, components tests, grime time, fun, how to...
!!!MINT SAUCE!!! | | Weaknesses: | patriotic | | Similar Products Used: | Montain Bike Action
Mountain Bike
Montain Bike International
Velo cz
Peloton cz
Cykloservis cz | | Bike Setup: | SCOTT, Judy, Race Face, LX, XT, IRC, Mavic, Ritchey Wing | | Bottom Line: | I wonder, 100 reviews and so much anger versus love. There must be something in it. Well I'm frequent reader for over 5 years now and still like the way they're doing it. Recently thev've change their image and well I liked the older much more, my opinion. So there was hype about downhill and now it's trials and play bikes and it's all about how to control the bike better which I'm interested in=like it. So there's lot of Steve Peat, Rob Warner, Martyn Ashton and so on...I'm saying why not if they're good and we can learn something from them.
And Mint Sauce is simple gold of MBUK.
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Submitted by
Gary puttock
a Cross-Country Rider
from London England
Date Reviewed: January 6, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: |
Box Hill | | Duration Product Used: |
2 Years | | Strengths: |
Please let me know if there are any | | Weaknesses: |
To many to list | | Similar Products Used: |
Max MTB
MBR
Total Bike | | Bike Setup: |
Specialized | | Bottom Line: | The jornos on this are so far up their own arses its a joke. Sucks up to a downhill rider whogets blown away on the international circut. Articles are only to be read if under 16. Although there bike tests are great! These though can't be taken seriously due the rest of the content of the magazine. Steve Worland should have a long hard look and then move to Max MTB where the readership there would fully appreciate a man with excellent MTB jorno writing skill as he has. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
rob valentine
a Weekend Warrior
from klajsdfglkasdfjalskdfj
Date Reviewed: December 14, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
ef | | Duration Product Used: |
2 Years | | Strengths: |
thick good for reveiws | | Weaknesses: |
reveiws xc products, but doesn't have articles about xc??????? | | Similar Products Used: |
mbr total bike dirt(best mag ever) | | Bike Setup: |
specialized rockhopper | | Bottom Line: | this mag rules for reveiws, but i have read it since march 98 and i am starting to think have i seen this before | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
LameZany
a Weekend Warrior
from London England
Date Reviewed: November 25, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
Anything + Everything | | Duration Product Used: |
2 Years | | Strengths: |
Articals
Photos
Reviews
Addictiveness
Humour | | Weaknesses: |
Few too many adverts - but it's damn thick anyway | | Similar Products Used: |
Total Bike - lame
MBR - lame
MBI - lame | | Bike Setup: |
GT Ricochet
Marin Muirwoods | | Bottom Line: | Still the best mountain biking magazine. Reviews and articals are far better than anything else on the market. MINT SAUCE RULES!! | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
David Mack
a Weekend Warrior
from Yorkshire, England
Date Reviewed: November 13, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
local woods | | Duration Product Used: |
2 Years | | Strengths: |
Print/picture quality
Nice and thick
Adverts for price comparison
Free gifts
Mint sauce | | Weaknesses: |
Writing quality
Bit too downhilly
Too much Whoa-look-at-that-jump type stuff | | Similar Products Used: |
Maximum Mountain Bike(Excellent), MBR(okay), Total Bike(not thick enough), Some American stuff(?!!????). | | Bike Setup: |
Used to have a full susser, gone back to my hardtail. | | Bottom Line: | Not as good as it used to be. Now there's too much focus on downhill and jumping, as well as their own team. The reviews are pretty good though, and it's almost worth buying just for Jo Burts' Mint Sauce cartoons. Free gifts are fairly regular, and decent quality, and you get a pretty thick mag for your £3.10. MMB is still better for the average rider who isn't into hero-worship, nepotism or trashing stuff for the hell of it. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Joa
a Cross-Country Rider
from Karlsruhe
Date Reviewed: November 9, 1999 | | Duration Product Used: |
6 months | | Strengths: |
funny insigths in - hmm... thus this mag represent Brit's attitude on MTB? | | Weaknesses: |
overloaded with ads but still expensive | | Similar Products Used: |
German, US mags | | Bike Setup: |
'98 GF zig | | Bottom Line: | Very british
I'm in England occassionaly - had a delay caused by fog (what else) at Birmingham airport last Friday, so I bought the Nov99 issue. It was the only MTB mag available - is this the only MTB mag from UK? I ask myself if this mag represents the Brit's attitute on MTB. I have to agree with Bikecrash. This is teenage stuff. The highlight was that gotcha/Dual Slalom thing, where the kids tried to shoot each other with colour bullets. Maybe it comes from the lack of mountains in the UK...
Very british.
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Submitted by
Bikecrash
a Weekend Warrior
from Wellington, new Zealand
Date Reviewed: November 5, 1999 | | Duration Product Used: |
more than 3 years | | Strengths: |
reviews, paper/print quality | | Weaknesses: |
everything else | | Similar Products Used: |
MBR, Mountain Bike Action | | Bike Setup: |
Kona | | Bottom Line: | This is Mountain Biking for the teenage Loaded- reading generation. Whilst I enjoyed reading about mechanical tips and riding skills years ago, all this mag now concentrates on is BMX-style jumps, downhilling and how to be a poseur. The dumbing down of British magazine journalism, which is a direct effect of Loaded and FHM's popularity, has meant all mags have resorted to targeting the same male teenage market; hence the scantily clad, pig ugly bimbos on every page and the necessity to swear and use vulgarity throughout the magazine. It is exactly the same with most publications, the people with the disposable cash are young boys so give them pseudo Playboy with a few flash downhill bikes which their over indulgent parents will spoil them with. Stupid thing is that those bikes will only be ridden around the local estate, or maybe the odd traipse to the local park. The Goog Konadude prick just sums it all up really. Look at the reviews by the people raving about the magazine, glad I am now half way around the world. Good point well made S. Palmer. If the magazine raised its IQ level to the quality of its print and photos I would go back to buying it regularly. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Donkeyboing
a Weekend Warrior
from Winchester
Date Reviewed: November 4, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
Sketchy, loose & dangerous | | Duration Product Used: |
2 Years | | Strengths: |
Damn fine mag. I love all of it except for the people who made it. | | Weaknesses: |
Stupid new image. | | Bike Setup: |
Chuck Crht, Z1, Xt,Xtr, Hope Pro, Raceface. | | Bottom Line: | Go back to the old image but still a scrummy mag. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Darren Razor Bennett
a Weekend Warrior
from Winchester, England
Date Reviewed: November 4, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
Everywhere is good enough for me. | | Duration Product Used: |
2 Years | | Strengths: |
It's da best. Oh yes! You've got to read it cos it's full of reveiws, pictures and loads of other stuff. You also get free posters and Mint Sauce products.
It's simply the best! And it beats all the other bike mags. | | Weaknesses: |
It somehow makes me want to read it instead of doing my homework. | | Similar Products Used: |
Opium, dope, cocaine and smack. MBUK beats all of that and it's twice as addictive.
Help me! | | Bike Setup: |
Spooky metal head, Z1 Duals, Hope open 4 pot, Shimano XTR and Middleburn. | | Bottom Line: | Don't mess cos it's the best.
Read it or eat it.
Just walk into WHSmith, take it off the shelf, walk to the pay till, buy it then get really excited when you read it. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
XC is crap
a Weekend Warrior
from N. Ireland
Date Reviewed: October 31, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
Earth | | Duration Product Used: |
2 Years | | Strengths: |
ONLY MAG. THAT DOESN'T JUST FOCUS ON LYCRA CLAD CROSS-COUNTRY ROADIES | | Weaknesses: |
STARTING TO FOCUS TOOOO MUCH ON SMALL JUMPY HARDTAILS | | Similar Products Used: |
All others | | Bottom Line: | GREAT MAG FOR DOWNHILLERS AN JUMPERS/ FREERIDERS | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
craig brown
a Downhiller
from edinburgh
Date Reviewed: October 27, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
pentland hills | | Duration Product Used: |
more than 3 years | | Strengths: |
great read with many different feilds covered. not to full of adverts
lots of products reviews
helpful grime time articles on certain products. | | Weaknesses: |
not enough mint sauce
they have a strange hbit of focussing on there own team for a lot of the mag | | Similar Products Used: |
mbr.mbi | | Bike Setup: |
98 gt zaskar with judy 100 forks lx groupste with xt v barkes
azionic componemts aswell | | Bottom Line: | buy it roks | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Goldberg
a Racer
from NEW YORK< USA
Date Reviewed: October 27, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
MT SNOW 98 XC raceloop | | Duration Product Used: |
2 Years | | Strengths: |
A different perspective than the USA mags I read all the time
-UK riders have more passion than alot of the US boneheads
(I know this is true cause anyone who pays 3x the price must be a fanatic)
-the mag actually came with a velcro watchband!!US mags dont come with gifts.
-lots of pictures
-lots of pages
-lots of highend stuff
-UK riders go BD(balls deep)in the pics | | Weaknesses: |
-too many advertisements | | Similar Products Used: |
-bike mag
-mountain biking
-velonews
-dirtrag
etc. | | Bike Setup: |
Chrome Homegrown with Judy 100. Syncros cranks, XTR brakes/shifters/derall.s
thompson post/mavic 517's, raceface everything else. | | Bottom Line: | Full of interesting stuff. I believe the highcost of UK bike products weeds out the boneheads from the serious riders. Lots of pages and pictures to look at. A fresh and interesting UK perspective. one of the better mags out there if not the best mag.
| | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Jim Calder
a Downhiller
from huddersfield
Date Reviewed: October 13, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
redmires-stanedge-bole hill-grindleford-totley-dore-blacka | | Duration Product Used: |
more than 3 years | | Strengths: |
None. Absolutely none at all | | Weaknesses: |
Every last thing about it. | | Similar Products Used: |
MBA, Mountain Bike, MBR MBi, Total Bike, Dirt | | Bike Setup: |
LTS, '99 Z1 BAM's, Hope discs f&r, XTR Cranks... | | Bottom Line: | Four or five years ago MBUK was genuinely a good magazine, but now it's just f*cking awfull. It's around 2/3 adverts, and the articles are just self-congratulatory, name-dropping bull.MTBR really needs a 'zero' rating, but as it hasn't I'll have to give 1. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
david paling
a Weekend Warrior
from derby
Date Reviewed: September 28, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
robin wood | | Duration Product Used: |
more than 3 years | | Strengths: |
latest bike bits
latest bikes,
good subcription deals,
has good team riders,
good photography,
amusing writers,
mail order adverts,
produces videos,
get free bits often. | | Weaknesses: |
needs bike price listings, sometimes focases on the riders to much rather than the bikes, it does not involve normal people or buyers as much as it could do. | | Similar Products Used: |
mbi,
mbr,
grip,
etc.etc. | | Bike Setup: |
m-trax 1000
m-trax 3000tit
marin pinemountain
saracen rufftrax
kona firemountain
giant cadex carbon
proflex reptile
kona kingkikapu
giant atx990
now want a monty as well as my cadex jumper.
also always been on bmx. | | Bottom Line: | very good magazine, better not for people wanting to find out about mountain biking but for people for peole who do, or for peole who want to know more.
ps.Im not just a weekend warrior i do it almost allday everyday.(xc/dh/trials/trails/dirtjump/bmx)
mountainboard/skateboard/surf/bobyboard/
snowboard/mx)anything extreme!
I AM ALSO UNEMPLOYED! | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Tom Hodge
a Weekend Warrior
from Stoke
Date Reviewed: September 21, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
Anywhere gnarly | | Duration Product Used: |
less than 1 month | | Strengths: |
It has wicked reviews and it helps beginers and experts too.Cool free gifts. | | Weaknesses: |
They are changing the classic layout | | Similar Products Used: |
most mags | | Bike Setup: |
Specialised Hardrock a1 with Judy xc long travel | | Bottom Line: | Cool mag that helped me then and now and taught me everything i know | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
hursty
a Weekend Warrior
from london
Date Reviewed: August 25, 1999 | | Duration Product Used: |
more than 3 years | | Strengths: |
lots of adverts. | | Weaknesses: |
everything else about it. | | Similar Products Used: |
mbr | | Bottom Line: | I buy this mag about once every two years whenever I'm about to replace my bike. I vaguely recall buying it in 1989 and thinking it was pretty cool(for a 16 yr old). 10 years later it seems to be run by people my age who now write like 16 yr olds. Rob Warner has so little talent I was actually cringing at his adolescent scrawl. Even worse is the sad sad sad treatment of any women stupid enough to let these idiots leer at them. 'Whoa look, a girl, she's fit!' Agree with everyone else about the adverts, stupid tricks, and various nepotism going on. I guess you can probably cover all there is to know about bikes in a year then after that its just rehash and technowank. Good socks on the front cover this issue though! | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Oliver Day
a Weekend Warrior
from Wales
Date Reviewed: August 22, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
Shut it | | Duration Product Used: |
1 Year | | Strengths: |
Free gifts | | Weaknesses: |
Annoying fools in it such as Jamie Hibbard
All they do is write about how great Team Specialized MBUK is and
fill it with adverts ( the mail order ones are OK but 4 pages of pictures of a frame etc. but no actual mai lorder companies is stupid and naff. Also they only publish letters from damn fools and constantly witter on about Rob Warner | | Similar Products Used: |
All of them | | Bike Setup: |
This isn't relevant. Shut your goddamnsonofabitchmouth mouth you crazy mother or I'll blow your ass off | | Bottom Line: | Its not even any good as toilet paper cos it isn't soft. They just try to sell it on the strength of the free gifts. I don't think it even deserves 1 flamin turd | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Ben Neal
a Weekend Warrior
from PENIEL
Date Reviewed: August 22, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
brockley run | | Duration Product Used: |
2 Years | | Strengths: |
hi people,today I finished a narly downhill track only to snap my saddle and cut my leg open(wwwwww nasty).If any one who lives in the north wales area wants to come for a ride on it or with the nantglyn crew give me a shout on my E-mail any way MBUK HMMM pretty cool I think but not as good as MBI.Good reviews of products and MOSTLY good articles but some are a bit lame. | | Weaknesses: |
to many adverts and reviews of cheap beginners bikes(I know beginners need them ,but not every month. | | Similar Products Used: |
MBI,MBR,Total bike | | Bike Setup: |
planet x with rockshox judy xl(mmmmmmmmm nice) | | Bottom Line: | overall it's a breath of fresh,or should I say fat(or phat)air.anyway come and have a ride in wales on our new dh track bie bie | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
trev
a Downhiller
from uk
Date Reviewed: August 16, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
dog biscuits | | Duration Product Used: |
less than 1 month | | Strengths: |
good for bog role | | Weaknesses: |
your finger pokes threw the paper up your ass | | Similar Products Used: |
andrex | | Bike Setup: |
unicycle | | Bottom Line: |
-------------------------there we go (andrew does n't give your ass a rash | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
PHIL SMITH
a Downhiller
from CLEAVELAND( ENG)
Date Reviewed: July 14, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
HAMSTERLY FOREST | | Duration Product Used: |
less than 1 month | | Strengths: |
TOP QUALITY BIKE | | Weaknesses: |
NOWT | | Similar Products Used: |
SPECIALIZED FSR COMP | | Bike Setup: |
MAZORCHI BOMBERS ROCK SHOCK DELUX | | Bottom Line: | GREATEST BIKE IVE EVER HAD. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
dan dare
a Downhiller
from devon
Date Reviewed: July 13, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
im not telling you! | | Duration Product Used: |
more than 3 years | | Strengths: |
funny,silly and plain stupid top class mtb action mag | | Weaknesses: |
the £3.10 cover price but they make up for it with kickin` freebies | | Similar Products Used: |
mbr,mountain bike(u.s mag)mbi,total bike, | | Bike Setup: |
haro dual slalom | | Bottom Line: | for all the people slagging off this kick ass mag you really need help cos` this mag is the dogs bollox so stop being little red sock wearing ramblers and get your arse in gear and buy this mag, oh and dont forget to wear your trouser clips you doubting bunch of freaks! | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
S. Palmer
a Cross-Country Rider
from The land of make-believe
Date Reviewed: June 22, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
firepit | | Duration Product Used: |
more than 3 years | | Strengths: |
mint sauce | | Weaknesses: |
the people who read it | | Similar Products Used: |
anything is better than MBUK, it's just a shame they've got Jo Burt. | | Bottom Line: | When I lived in Canada, I used to think MBUK was cool. Now that I live in England, and I see that the reason for only ever writing about trials and bike games is that there is nothing else to do here, I hate it. Jamie Hibbard is a hypocritic (he slags bikes off in 'REDLINE'), annoying little prick. This magazine is a glorified comic for underdeveloped children who are too unpopular to ride BMX, and too stupid to stay at home with paper bags over their heads. The dick from Sussex who wrote everything in capitals and went on about 'buzzing' ramblers at the end of his letter on this page only proves everything I've just written. The only part of his anatomy that has probably ever reached 40 mph is his right hand.
Please ignore the chilli underneath this review, MBUK doesn't deserve it.
P.S. Radio one isn't very good either. (the page wouldn't let me write what I think about that...) | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Andy Booth
a Weekend Warrior
from Bath, England
Date Reviewed: June 21, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
Browns Folly, Bath | | Duration Product Used: |
more than 3 years | | Strengths: |
Mostly informative,
Funny,
I recognise most loads of the photos as I live in Bath | | Weaknesses: |
None | | Similar Products Used: |
MBi, MBR | | Bike Setup: |
Konas | | Bottom Line: | MBUK is a great magazine and definetely better than the pile of w**k that comes out of America.
I've read it since 1993 and it has become more childish. Maybe that's because I've grown up......
Keep it how it is, if you can't love being a kid on a bike then don't bother riding. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Ade
a Cross-Country Rider
from Epsom, England
Date Reviewed: June 3, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
Dorking Area | | Duration Product Used: |
1 Year | | Strengths: |
Funny, weird and occasionally wild, MBUK might be aimed at sub-20's but it carries over something about being out there covered in mud sweat and sometimes blood. MBUK is still where its at. | | Weaknesses: |
Too many adverts but then they have got to pay fo all those trips to Troy Lee, Qranc etc in the US of A! | | Similar Products Used: |
Total Bike - Dull
MBR - nice pull outs | | Bike Setup: |
Specialized hardtail | | Bottom Line: | MBUK is the best available in the UK. If its a lifestyle aspiration you have MBUK is the two wheeled surf bum of lifestyle publications | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
trials dude + weirdo BMX/MTB guy
a Weekend Warrior
from Norfolk UK
Date Reviewed: May 19, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
ringland hills Norwich .! | | Duration Product Used: |
more than 3 years | | Strengths: |
F**king amazing -WW
Brings you close to the good rides and the pros-HM | | Weaknesses: |
to many adverts and not enough money !!!!! | | Similar Products Used: |
MBR - cool vids, Total bike - cheap+cheesy. | | Bike Setup: |
Giant ATX 970 + Pace RC 160 - HM.
WW and my legs !!!!!! | | Bottom Line: | amazing ! - ww
Full of useful reveiws which the stooopid weirdo narco freaks below don't seem to be able to read. Gives you good advice on how to crash and have fun doing so and also gives great up to date product news and reviews. Walkers can Fu**ing shove their little red socks right up their little red holes!!!! Hint - Don't crash into parked superbikes at 30mph on a car park they're not nice people! - HM!!!! | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Pablo
a Downhiller
from Hampshire
Date Reviewed: May 2, 1999 | | Duration Product Used: |
more than 3 years | | Strengths: |
They manage to sponsor a few riders. | | Weaknesses: |
It's full of adverts, the articles aren't worth reading and it' more expensive than other bike mags. | | Similar Products Used: |
Almost every other MTB mag, especially those not made by Future are a lot better. | | Bottom Line: | MBUK now has to rely on free gift gimics and pics of half naked women to attract their readership which seems to be made up of sex obsessed little gromits. I only wish there was a lower rating than one! | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Chris
a Cross-Country Rider
from Sheffield
Date Reviewed: April 24, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
Derwent | | Duration Product Used: |
more than 3 years | | Bottom Line: | Although i enjoy watching downhill on tv and like extreme kind of riding, I dont enjoy reading about pierced gits and their mates riding around the woods pulling wheelies and generally behaving like pre-pubescent teens.The letters page is a f****** joke and some times I feel an idiot for buying the mag in the first place.Grow up and stop catering for spotty little wankers who just dream about owning a descent bike. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
chris
a Weekend Warrior
from england
Date Reviewed: April 23, 1999 | | Duration Product Used: |
more than 3 years | | Strengths: |
none | | Weaknesses: |
all | | Bottom Line: | boring drivel filled advert mag for kids | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
GOOG KONADUDE
a Weekend Warrior
from SUSSEX
Date Reviewed: March 30, 1999 | | Duration Product Used: |
1 Year | | Bottom Line: | I LOVE MBUK, THE TRAILS STUFF HAS HELPED IMPROVE MY CROSS-COUNTRY RIDING SKILLS AND ITS GREAT FUN,
PLUS IT LOOKS REALLY COOL GETTING LOADS OF AIR OVER JUMPS AND STUMPS. I THINK THE REVIEWS ON PRODUCTS ARE REALLY GREAT.
I WOULD LIKE TO SEE BETTER PROTECTION FOR ALUMINIUM BIKES AGAINST CHAINSUCK, AS IT HAS KILLED TWO OF MY MATES BIKES, SO GO AND BUY A QUALITY STEEL FRAME AND IT WILL LAST LONGER!!
I LOVE BUZZING THEM TWATY RAMBLERS AT 40 MPH - F**K 'EM !!! | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Jens
a Weekend Warrior
from Aarhus
Date Reviewed: March 23, 1999 | | Duration Product Used: |
1 Year | | Bottom Line: | MBUK and Bike Magazine is the funniest, coolest and best bike mags on the market. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Carp
a weekend warrior
from UK
Date Reviewed: March 12, 1999 | | Bottom Line: |
Written for adolescents by adults(?) who should know better.Uninformed, uneducated & puerile, an excercise in journalistic amateurism and editorial incompetence.Advertising outweighs content which in this case is no bad thing.Don't waste your money.
| | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
André Bemand
a
from Southport, Merseyside, UK
Date Reviewed: March 1, 1999 | | Bottom Line: |
I`m a keen 17 year old trials rider and I get MBUK every month. I think that MBUK is the best thing since sliced bread. It`s bloody brilliant. I enjoy reading all the articles even though I`m only really into trials. I`ve got loads of mates who love the mag as well, so if any of those stupid fools start going on about the mag becoming too full of downhill etc. and not enough serious articles on a boring old load of b*lloks then please take no bloody notice of them, they`re missing the point completely.
P.S. Havihng said all this I would like to see a bit more about trials in the mag please. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Richie
a cross-country rider
from Wales
Date Reviewed: February 28, 1999 | | Bottom Line: |
MBUK used to be a great mag until all this downhilling/freeriding bollocks came along,which is just a marketing ploy to sell more expensive bikes anyway.
Now it is just a pile of shit,aimed at 14 and 15 year olds who get their parents to shell out shitloads on a bike,only for them to ride around the streets on it,shouting abuse at passers by like oi you f*****g wanker.All they want to do is ride around trying to do 'really cool'(yeah right)jumps like they see Rob Warner doing in MBUK.I bet their bikes never see the any mud whatsoever.This is not mountain biking,its called being a frigging ponce. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Bob Scones
a downhiller
from Liverpool
Date Reviewed: February 26, 1999 | | Bottom Line: |
It is a great mag but methinks a little too many pages filled with adverts! But most of the story's are cool! But I have to say I still think dirt is a better mag!
P.S. Can anyone tell me off any cool jumps spots in the liverpool-ormskirk area? | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
harry
a weekend warrior
from Singapore
Date Reviewed: February 26, 1999 | | Bottom Line: |
this is the only magazine that i follow monthly. They cover gimmicks and DH quite extensively. And it is colour printed unlike some other mags.(real sh@@ when you pay such money for poor quality printings.I agree that there are too many comercials. But it that is what gives good quality print ..i don't mind. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
SkUG
a downhiller
from Wales
Date Reviewed: February 9, 1999 | | Bottom Line: |
Does Anyone accualay use this site or can no-one be bothered to type more than thirty words to get thier piece of SheD pile on this Shed Pile Site?
If any-one has any smart-arss coments to send me
Don't hesitateWhy 'cos
i'm
Bored
Stiff(But not in that sense)
(Dirty Minded Litttle person) | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
SkUG
a cross-country rider
from Wales (that place next to England)
Date Reviewed: February 2, 1999 | | Bottom Line: |
Today I will be reviewing Tasty Products
This years product is Food
In fact a Apple
Mmmmm Apple
Apples are great
They come in many flavours.....Okay so they don't but
they come in different colours like.....
Purple, orange
Oh wait there thats grapes and oranges
Apples are RED and GreeN
Like traffic lights...
well accept the amber ones.
Well
I
Can't think Of any better thing to say about Apples
Execpt
BUY THEM
and keep them in a sticker albumn
Oh wait that thats stickers
Erm Just eat them
Yeh thats right
EAT THEM
Hmmm Tasty | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Sparky
a weekend warrior
from N/Yorks
Date Reviewed: January 29, 1999 | | Bottom Line: |
MBUK is still the best bike out there, if only for the up to date reviews etc...
The problem is that there isn't a whole lot to write about. Back when it started the whole scene was developing & the mag with it. Now it's got to te point where everything is too specialized. DH gets the spotlight b'cos the alternative (XC) would mean fitness articles, race strategy's etc.. which is very usefull but misses the point that most people just ride for fun. What you could do is prduce a magazine with sections for XC, DH & begginers. Thing is, pretty soon you cover all the basics and after 1 year you've covered race prep for all seasons - then you start repeating yourself & everyone gets bored. All you can do then is stick to the most fashionable b'cos it's all that's left. It's still a good mag if you only get it now & then. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
BANSHEE
a weekend warrior
from SUFFOLK
Date Reviewed: January 28, 1999 | | Bottom Line: |
HI THERE I AM A TRILES PERSON WICH I AM F******
GOOD AT AND THE DAM MAG IS BRILL SO U BETTER GET IT ALL BEFOR I DO get iT NOW OR KILL | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Robnob
a weekend warrior
from England
Date Reviewed: January 25, 1999 | | Bottom Line: |
This is the one and only mountain bike magazine worth reading in the whole world.
True, it does sometimes take the piss out of the occasional person who writes a stupid letter, but it does cater for the needs of all riders.
It is aimed at the younger genorations, some people argue. If you are not in one of the younger genorations, you shouldn't be riding, unless you're good of course, but then again, if you are good you wouldn't be buying this type of magazine.
MBUK has done wonders for my life, it introduced me to a whole new style of living and it is great. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
insider
a weekend warrior
from bath
Date Reviewed: January 20, 1999 | | Bottom Line: |
MBUK is run by advertisers and publishers. These people do not care about MTBers. The magazine is designed for under 25's and kids with parents with deep pockets. If any competition comes out to the publishers mags [like DIRT] they respond with a copy [Rush] until their better distribution and cross advertising forces the competition off the market. We have no real mountains in England - the 'journalists' think playing in the woods is freeriding. You decide.
| | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Pieter van Tilburg
a weekend warrior
from Bristol
Date Reviewed: January 12, 1999 | | Bottom Line: |
Titec hell bent rissers are your desent rissers and rather a good price for the ride. They could be a bit wider because they are quite small but you should just put grips, leavers ext. I think that titec are making some quite new stuff and are good. My over coment is get them if you ride a lot. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
WHEELZ
a cross-country rider
from Oxford
Date Reviewed: January 9, 1999 | | Bottom Line: |
To all those people who dis. MBUK for its coverage of fashion articles..., some people like reading them! (and I bet you do too). They are just trying to cover a wide range of issues and I think they do a b*£!*dy good job, that's why they are Britain's Best Selling bike Magazine. I have been buying the mag. since '94 and have never disliked an issue. Keep up the good work, Jo Burt is God. Isn't winter an arse! | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
John
a weekend warrior
from UK
Date Reviewed: December 26, 1998 | | Bottom Line: |
NOTICE KELVIN AYRES a RACER from Ireland writes who slags off the great mag that MBUK is because he is ROADIE SCUM and needs a life so slags off a mag not ment for his SILLY Kind he shows ROADIES to be very stupid as he wrote W@NK which Translates to WATNK Ta for your time like!!
KELVIN's review is a third of the way down the page. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
James Larby
a cross-country rider
from GUERNSEY
Date Reviewed: December 20, 1998 | | Bottom Line: |
MBUK ROCKS and so does mountain biking. Keep it up all you cross country riders out there (we will always kick butt)and no matter what style you ride if you live in Guernsey you also rock.Keep riding those trails the poilce banned you from two months ago till you drop. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Alan(the hippy one)Beesby
a cross-country rider
from Calne nr swindon nr mbuk offices
Date Reviewed: December 19, 1998 | | Bottom Line: |
Mbuk is an extreemly kick ass mag! and how dare some stupid little butt munch calling themself cornholio dis it he should be punished ,I mean its not our fault if he likes to slap on the lycra's and shoot of on his racer. If you have just read his reveiw and it has made you want to stab him in the face with a coctail stick, don't worry all the calne posse love mbuk and will be seeing you at bike 99 (we will be the ones in the little blak cooperized mini!)so to all the other followers of minjin have good rides and peace. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Peter Yeung
a downhiller
from Cornwall/UK
Date Reviewed: December 9, 1998 | | Bottom Line: |
I think that this magazine is great, but I must admit that there are too many advertisements in it. I have been told that the only way to continue publishing the magazine is to gain extra money (hence the ads).
Not many more criticisms apart from this. It's good to know that a magazine is producing such a good quality team. I like the idea of gathering new talent, and improving it, to make them successful in the future.
The best parts of the magazine are the reviews, and the mint sauce sections. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Nick
a cross-country rider
from New Zealand
Date Reviewed: November 22, 1998 | | Bottom Line: |
I used to subscribe to MBUK when I lived in England but only get it here occasionally because it costs 15 bucks and whenever I visit the magazine store they're all 2 months old. I picked up Octobers issue and had to check I had the right mag. Everyone is wearing motocross gear and full face helmets! There are adverts for deodorant and now 13 different chain devices to choose from. Jeez I must be getting old. Still the usual core of interesting articles and features and Mint seems unaffected by the hype.What annoys me is the way the goalposts keep moving. Now I've finally got the type of bike I dreamed about 4-5 years ago it's old news and I'm just as far away from owning a dream machine as ever. Maybe like the Range Rover, MBUK has continued to evolve out of it's niche into an entirely new beast and I'm still back in the niche/rut wondering why the world's moving so fast.Anyway MBUK is still probably still the best MTB mag on the shelves | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Jepp
a downhiller
from Candyland
Date Reviewed: November 20, 1998 | | Bottom Line: |
MBUK rules because they know what mountainbiking is all about, having fun. But they are'nt as good as some other magazines at testing the latest dh or cc bikes.But it's way better than mags as Mountainbike action, they test expensive bikes but they can't rewiev them. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
kbr
a cross-country rider
from Plymouth, Uk
Date Reviewed: November 13, 1998 | | Bottom Line: |
This mag has gone DH! mad more like.. it was once the topdog, but now not enough real riding articles/issues. Too much fad/fashion crap.. no more technique lessons? when are they gonna review something new.. or when are they gonna do a tech shop of sommit they aint done before!? ie, marzocchi fork rebuilds? The US mags rule 4 all dat sh#t! | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Sicoe
a weekend warrior
from Manchester
Date Reviewed: October 29, 1998 | | Bottom Line: |
Once great mag, now really out of it. Every issue seems to be the same, consisting of:
a) Aren't we all really clever articles (Staff and 'friends' - ie Steve Peat or Rob Warner mostly) doing something silly (mostly jumping something).
b) We love downhillers (An article worshiping some downhiller)
c) We can do stunts (some feature about wheelies endos or similar)
d) We've got a great race team (Profile of a team memeber or training session)And thats it. All great if you are 14 and think bunny hops impress girls - a waste of time if you actally ride bikes! | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Robert Wilson
a weekend warrior
from Carluke, Scotland
Date Reviewed: October 29, 1998 | | Bottom Line: |
Your mag. ROCKS!!!!!! It is by far the best MTB mag on the shelves today. The reviews of all the bikes are brill and the stories from mtb trips around the world are great. The only downsight is that there are not enough ads from scottish companies. Apart from that its great! keep it up!P.S. keep up Mint Sauce Jo he rules the hills and the cafes that he stops in for luches. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
greg
a weekend warrior
from
Date Reviewed: October 5, 1998 | | Bottom Line: |
Is MBUK a Rob Warner fanzine? It would appear to be given the number of times he appears on the cover etc which is great for his sponsors but deprives up and coming riders a platform for PR and hence improved sponsorship deals. But on the whole not a bad magzine but you do get bored of its rules/ big air writing style but that is probably a result of its young readership age. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
ewan law
a weekend warrior
from edinburgh , scotland
Date Reviewed: October 4, 1998 | | Bottom Line: |
This magazine rules , unlike any other mag on the market it offers support and publicity to the up and coming stars of the future . It has also launched top downhill riders like Rob warner and Steve Peat who are'nt doing to bad in the GrundigsIt also has cool reviews that get right to the point . Go out and buy it now. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Natalie Sharman
a weekend warrior
from Weymouth, England
Date Reviewed: October 2, 1998 | | Bottom Line: |
I love the magazine. I am one of the few female mountain bikers out there!. I don`t get to ride as much as I like, but when I do get out I let it all go!!. The only thing I don`t like about the mag is the worship of Warner, Peat, Geall and that bloody Kelly Salone, she gets up my nose. Sorry I know that they are brilliant but every article happens to feature one of them in some form or another. Has Jamies bike been recovered?. I hope so. Also I love Mint sauce, keep it up Jo. Any spare Santa Cruz frames lying about, that a lovely mtb female could make serious use of?. Oh a product review, um, Oh I know, The Klein Mantra race, lovely bike, makes a strange sound when stood on top of a windy hill. Plush and an enjoyable ride. Jumped it, crashed, say no more!!. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Sean Thomas
a cross-country rider
from Shropshire, UK
Date Reviewed: October 2, 1998 | | Bottom Line: |
A superb mag, if you live in the UK, which I do obviously. Sad to see the demise of MTBPro/World, but that's the pressures of the financial side at work. Total Bike doesn't seem to have captured the spirit of it's predecessors (sorry guys, I have been a long time fan) so I have moved my subscription to MBUK, which I used to buy in any case.....wonder why I never subscribed to both???Anyway, I have had a look through the comments and reviews and find it curious that people would want to slag the mag. I mean it's pointless.....if you don't like the mag, read something else - after all, they are not doing it as a favour to you personally, so you've no right to be offended.True, the magazine has changed over the years, matured somewhat, and maybe they do try too hard to be funny at times, but what the hell....it's their job, they can do what they like. Go for it guys, you get my backing all the way. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Steve Wallis
a weekend warrior
from Canterbury / Kent
Date Reviewed: October 1, 1998 | | Bottom Line: |
Ive got a Giant Box One 'cause its the best bike out there for the money. It might not be as solid as some dh bikes but, 'though its not that gravity defiant, you can still use it for XC. It was going pretty well 'till after about 2 weeks when I stacked it bigtime. I smashed the forks up, but i got some new ones, courtesy of insurance! | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
MARTIN HIRST
a downhiller
from MANCHESTER
Date Reviewed: September 30, 1998 | | Bottom Line: |
AVID 2.0L LEVERS AS GOOD AS DISKS IN THE DRY AND IN THE WET THERES IS NOT A LOT OF DIFFERANCE. THESE LEVERS ARE BRILLIANT WITH ANY V-BRAKES GOING AS LONG AS THE PADS ARE WET WEATHER YOU WILL HAVE NO PROBLEMS STOPPING SO FOR THE PRICE YOU CAN'T MOAN BECOUSE THEY ARE AS GOOD AS ANY HYDROLIC BRAKES GOING
| | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Peter Yeung
a downhiller
from St. Ives - Cornwall
Date Reviewed: September 23, 1998 | | Bottom Line: |
I reckon that your magazine is definately worthbuying, although it does lack some intense downhill action. You will probably say, 'buy rush, or dirt then', but the only thing is that I do. My favorite section has to be the reviews pages, where you review all the new products, and also grime time. However, one thing which get on my nerves, must be the fact that you don't reply to any of the enquires that I have made. i.e. Grime time. This may be because Smith is living in his own little world, and concentrating extremely hard on keeping a grasp on reality, without being taken into a technological bizarre world. | | Overall Rating: |
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