Sent into us in October 2010, by a (former) reader. We need more people like him!
Hi,
Just writing to say I'm sorry to see the demise of the Two Wheels Only magazine, despite not having liked it / bought it for the last couple of years.
We buy Bike, Motorcycle Sport and Leisure, Ride, Performance Bikes, MCN and Motorcycle Mechanics either on subscription or without fail every month.
I used to be a subscriber to Two Wheels Only. A couple of years ago I thought you were by far the best magazine out there, also having two of my heros Jim and Nial on your staff.
When Sonic (John Cantlie) started working for you I got a very bad feeling, thinking he would bring over the style of Superbike magazine as thats all he knows. I cancelled the subscription when you changed to Visor Down. The reason? No way do I like the tone of the writing. I think you were right in your editorial this month saying the market for bike magazines was shrinking, the market for bike magazines with twattish attitudes and the journos as the "stars" has long been dominated by Superbike and Fast Bikes, both of which I havn't bought since the 90's. Lets face it if I want to buy trash like the daily Sport, I'd buy the real daily sport with real tits instead of tit heads. Streetfighters is as good at writing shite as Jim is talking it on TV (thats a massive compliment), but theres no room for another one in my view - in no way were you as established in this respect as the others and you probably alienated all your readers who went to Bike and MSL instead and didn't win enough Superbike or Fast Bike readers who already bought those mags, which, in my view, just give GSXR1000 nutter dickhead man enough information to take the piss out of everybody else in the pub, without which he doesn't know anything about any other bikes, never having owned anything else and they also do have a pair of tits in the centre spread to **nk off to because he probably can't get a girlfriend either cos he's a scary proposition at best, and rides and talks like a twat.
I am not interested in the "personalities" (apart from those with well earned reputations like Jim and Nial) whatsoever, half of the journos are inexperienced either riders or writers and write a load of crap thats just wrong, I don't agree with any of your "opinions" and don't really want to hear them, and I don't have any respect for anybody who can't even keep the sunny side up half the time (and is proud of it). When I get to the bit that says what our journos wore - kit sections etc, I think who gives a fu*k and don't even look at that bit of the mag, I'll make my own decisions in that respect, thanks, I'm not taking advice off somebody whos only been riding two years and who writes crap for a living. Some of the foreign mags have it right - even if they look a bit like Which - but with expert knowledge, insight and and opinion. We had hours of fun over in France trying to reading French things like Suspension Catastropic, Moteur Magique and loads of other really description words when summing up bikes - and not a journo w**nker name or photo in sight!
Why not keep up the good articles and try to alienate the twats by preaching not to speed in town and other twattish things that give motorcycling a bad name?- theres more bikes are are not twats out there than the twats and that way you would have improved your loyal following and subscriptions.
What I want from a magazine, especially one linked to the information superhighway, is information and expert opinion, along with interesting articles, not cheap and nasty twattish writing. If I want an argument with somebody about bikes, I could go and pick a fight with somebody at my local bike meet and tell them their bikes shit or something - not for me thanks. So its the original Two Wheels only I mourn, not the twattish Visordown - good riddance to that. And by the way, I havn't been on the www.visordown.com once - who wants to read a load of opinionated crap on the internet? Get a life!
Philip Johnson
Burnley
