Latest MAKE magazine
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cochiloco at 08.27.07 - 5:43 am
Anyone check out the latest Make magazine?, featuring various DIY bike projects, including choppers, trikes and even a rolling film projector bike.
There's also various stories on "alternative" vehicles...
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MAKE also has video and pdf podcasts on iTunes, that show how to build your own Fixie. The video is rather amusing. Just do a search on iTunes, keyword: MAKE.
TAR08.27.07 - 9:59 pm
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a little off-topic but are there any magazines for fixie,ss or just bike culture in general? all the bike mags i see at the local book stores are for pro-riders/tourers etc.
someone with excellent writting skills should get with the local photogs on this site and put together a magazine =]
Vince09.23.08 - 3:13 pm
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If you're talking about the one with Master Jalopy's home made movie in a bike with LED screens, that's last year's issue, not this year's.
Noble Experiment09.23.08 - 3:15 pm
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@vince, most people into "bike culture" can't afford to buy magazines on a regular basis. The best things going for you are zines.
This one is pretty good: http://veloculturemag.com/
the reverend dak09.23.08 - 3:35 pm
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01TPK7ChLmA
lets build a hipster bike!
larsenf09.23.08 - 3:36 pm
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The reason I found this is because I was looking for threads about magazines. I want to make a zine. It'll have reviews of rides and pictures and who knows what else. It'll be photocopied. It'll be awesome. Good idea, bad idea?
imachynna09.23.08 - 3:51 pm
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i believe this link to download 'fixed' magazine is still go:
http://www.fixed-mag.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/fixed-mag-issue-1.pdf
kurtz09.23.08 - 4:33 pm
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Thread jumping. I'm going to make a thread for my idea.
imachynna09.23.08 - 5:05 pm
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funny you mentioned that chynna the day after c-mob my friends and i were sitting around talking about making small b/w magazine for another hobby that we are into.
My friend did this a long time ago in 1997 for the low rider car culture and he sold them for a dollar at car shows. All he did was make a deal with a printing company to make small 5x4in booklets with about 70 pages in it. It had a color cover and b/w inserts with articles and photos that were done by him and his friends. The whole magazine was funded by local car shops [i know advertisements suck but it helps pay for the mag] and the dollar fee for the mag was pennies to everyone at shows so it made a hit. eventually he was able to make it a website m'zine and then released full 8.5x11 color magazines.
Vince09.23.08 - 5:16 pm
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I like Rouleur, it's road-centric but from a more thoughtful angle than your average bike mag, which tends to be BUY THIS and BUY THAT and heart rates and gram counting. Great photography, history, and respect for the old school and vintage bikes:
http://www.rouleur.cc/
The Rivendell Reader is good too, it's full of whimsy for sure but also has great tips for practical cycling and has lots of history too. You don't have to be full of bagmatching lug lust to appreciate it:
http://www.rivbike.com/
cabhauler09.23.08 - 5:58 pm
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+1 to all the other zine recs too, I just wanted to add something different.
cabhauler09.23.08 - 5:59 pm
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you should have poetry... photos.... pictures.... essays... songs... anything and everything bicycle culture and that people feel like expressing and sharing with the rest of us. this is an awesome idea.
Jazzy Phat Nastee09.23.08 - 6:00 pm
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