Off Topic Approved.

If it's India you are talking about (which is pretty clear from your post), then undoubtedly one and the only motorcycling magazine we have - Bike India. Do we even have any other motorcycling magazine available officially, here, in India? I doubt.

However, I don't have much idea when it comes to international magazine. Recently, I did get to read a couple of issues of 'Bike UK' and I was mighty impressed by everything - starting with the cover page, page quality, size of the magazine (it was a little bigger than our desi Bike India, the quality of the photographs and the text, etc.

If you talk about biking magazine as in featuring only bikes, then ya in India you got only Bike india. But otherwise I really like the bike coverage of BSMotoring. They have a very fresh insight into the lots of topics and have a very interesting way of presenting their articles.

I am a Bike India subscriber, but I somehow find them too much politically correct. Every bike is very good, every company is very good, every thing about them is saccrine sweet. But their devotion to the cause of biking is praise worthy !!

Internationally I have read Bike Magazine UK and the same problem seems to plague them as well. Every bike is too good, every thing about every thing is good. They just can't seem to call a spade a spade !!

I liked Two magazine and Performance biking !! Peformance biking was amazing, their staff are as hardcore as they get transforming a zx-6r to 170 bhps and then burning the clutch !! Just to show it can be done.
And they were also the most politically incorrect bike magazine ever, right down to the naked ladied on bikes in their posters !!

Just the way I want a magazine !! Ruthless that is ! They wud not relent from shredding Triumph to pieces just cause tis a British company !

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egg-jakat-li my take

Motorcycle-USA.

BSMotoring.................no doubt........

overdrive do give stress on bikes good.........

Indian..without a shred of doubt, Bike India

Rest of the world...

MCN's simply the best..I love it!
New MCN May 6: Aprilia RSV4 on the road! - Motorcycle News

Bike UK is also really good

Motorcycle USA is the best here...but it is a quarterly magazine..
and it's not exactly cheap- 4 issues 19.99$ ..but worth it coz it is one of the best I've seen .Check out this digital version
MotoUSA - 2009 Issue Two

MCN is a tabloid not a magazine actually. And its weekly, comes out every wednesday !!

I wonder if anyone has noticed the litre class shootouts of the various magazines ! And all the magazines seem to be totally contradicting each other this year !
Have a look at this, Motorcycle.com says the CBR is still the best and the 09 R1 is the last !!!

2009 Literbike Shootout - Motorcycle.com

But just over the atlantic Michael Neeves says that the 09 gsxr is slower than the R1 by more than 2 secs ! and says 09 R1 is the best.
The road test :
YouTube - 1000s Road Test
The track test :
YouTube - Yamaha R1 v Honda Fireblade v Suzuki GSX-R1000 v Kawasaki ZX-10R v Ducati 1198

Funny !

<< I posted this sometime back in the SBK thread ! I guess no one noticed ! After seeing this i think the topic can be changed to .." Which magazine do u beleive ?"

I guess the quality of English must also be pretty good. Can we have a look, at a G2G or something?

Bike India is dedicated to the cause of Biking. There is no doubt about that. But I agree that BSM maintains very high quality standards.

I noticed that abroad one gets motorcycling magazines for different categories... Racing, Reviews, How to... etc... Some magazines cover a lot of it, but there are magazines that are dedicated for these kind of things. There are Offroader dedicated mags for example.

Motorcycling and semi clad sexy women go together as you might have noticed in All kinds of races. Abroad, it is difficult to find an issue of a standard motorcycling magazine not having at least one photograph with a nude damsel posing with a lovely machine right through the year!

Besides the facts and figures which are inconsistent mostly, I think BikeIndia is the best biking magazine in India. I have not read BSM lately, but the older ones (4 years back) were quite poorly written. But I would not argue with other members opinion here of BSM giving a fresh perspective on biking. Will surely catch next month's issue.

MotoUSA is quite expensive to buy everymonth, but whichever ones I have got hold of, they are well written. Extremely unapologetic, as straight as it gets, technical to the core, love it or hate it kind of reviews are present. If they don't like a bike, they will make it absolutely known!

@Ken da: Im sure you meant that it is difficult to find a mag abroad without a 'pic' of a *ahem ahem* and a bike

Id rather not comment on the writing quality of magazines etc since im not qualified/experienced/whatever enough to do so
IMO rossiter, Synn, ken da, OF sir etc would be the best to gather opinions from

In Europe they are pretty casual about nudity, so its not an issue wid them. Imagine my surprise when I first entered the changing room of a gym in UK !!

But I've never seen nudity in Bike magazine UK or MCN !! Dunno bout the US mags thought !!

Superbike USA is pretty good, though I had a few copies a long time ago.

BIKE India: better buy from the magazine stall if you live in remote areas, as they ship using normal post. All through my subscription, I had to request a replacement copy each month. Thankfully, the staff are very friendly and do dispatch replacements right away.

Bike India is the only mag in India, but still i feel they have a good mix of stories. I specially like the DUMB part in the letter section and the Ride safe series. Plus they always have a nice road test / comparison of Indian bikes. Then they have the international content.
They also give importance to the readers - the YOU page, YOUR STUNTS / YOUR PICS.. i feel they are doing a good job of keepin all types of readers happy.

I have had a chance to see and read MCN. Man, they come out with a paper magazine once every week. But then again, half of the pages have classifieds