xBhp magazine feedback thread!!

[Mzee_Maverik]

today brought the 3rd issue and amazing as usual.

[bbmurthy301]

got 1st and 2nd issues with in 3 days of ordering ...didn't expect this by reading some posts in this forum....very happy..

also subscribed for 3 years..will be getting from april isuue on wards i guess...

so tried for feb edition in the store mentioned in the list...but surprisingly that fellow had put blank face when i said xbhp magazine..he said he never sells magazines...

regards,
bhairav

[deville_56]

I have ordered January and February issues on March 1, till date not received. No one cares to respond to my mails

[prasath_xbhp]

I have ordered January and February issues on March 1, till date not received. No one cares to respond to my mails

+1. I had ordered the Oct 2010 issue on 27th February till now I haven't received my copy. I had sent nearly 3 emails now...

[Mzee_Maverik]

brought the latest xbhp magazine and im confused
on page 122 in sunil G's review it is stated that in honda VFR1200 there is no clutch lever but in the above pic there is a lever.
what do i understand???

[sunilg]

@Mzee_Maverik: The VFR doesn't have a clutch lever.

However, some of the the official images of VFR with us from Honda do show a clutch lever, which is an error on part of Honda that ultimately went unnoticed on our end also.

Thanks for pointing it out.

[dual disc 200]

@Mzee_Maverik: The VFR doesn't have a clutch lever.

However, some of the the official images of VFR with us from Honda do show a clutch lever, which is an error on part of Honda that ultimately went unnoticed on our end also.

Thanks for pointing it out.

There are actually two versions of the VFR. One with manual transmission that has a clutch lever & the second one is the DCT Version (Dual Clutch Transmission) which has an automatic transmission in which the clutch lever will be missing. Hope this helps

[HarshitTailor]

I had ordered the 1st and 2nd issue online last week. Received it yesterday. Neat packing and awesome content. Saw the dvd featuring Old Fox sir and Sunny sir. Was thrilled. Looking forward to get Leh'd someday.
Am very happy with the purchase. Will subscribe the magazine for 3 years soon.
@CoreTeam Good Job and all the best for the future. Your hard work shows.

[rharish90]

I bought the latest edition and this is my first one.

Here is what I liked about it.
- I am very much impressed by the magazine. I read almost all the major auto mags in India but what sets xBHP mag apart from others is the passion for biking that shows dominantly in all pages right from the articles to cartoons to the amazing photos.
- The cartoons are very nice and are idiosyncratic to xBHP. Keep them coming.
- The Leh guide and Vision article are top-notch. If it were other magazines, these two would run as the cover stories for four editions of the mag! Terrific work there!
- The trip logs and paper quality are good too.

Here is what I did not like about the magazine.
- A pull out poster is missing!
- A fixed date on which we can go to the stalls to get the mag would be nice.
- The empty space after the content on Praveen, Sunil and Shamik's articles and on page 105 looks awkward. It looks like there is no more content to fill up the place. A better layout or some photo here could have solved the issue.
- At the end of the Leh guide there is a map showing Route 1. I don't know what that means and I was searching for Route 2. Kindly clarify on this.
- Though you guys know this already, more trip logs in South India (Mainly the TN, KN, AP and KL) are expected in the future issues.
- Trip logs of trips done on bikes which most of us own would be nice. That would give us a sense of relation.
- There were typos here and there but I guess in future they wont be there.

All these are just my personal opinion. Hope it helps.

[snehmads]

I have read all the editions so far.
The magazine is no doubt different from the crowd.
I don't know what kind of positioning is Sunny targeting in the market, but it looks more of Coffee table book to me. Personally I would prefer more text than the glossy stuff. In the travelogues, I find some minor mistakes. Delhi Mana Highway in Rishikesh-Dhanaulti trip has been mentioned as NH59 (Gupta ji lives on this Hway). In another edition, Mumbai- Pune-Blore_Chennai highway no. was also wrong.
Overall, a pleasing experience with super sexy photography and stuff from OF.

[hardcorebiker]

Bought the magazine 2 days back and now its half done...another half to go

Cool book! Sunny u really photogenic

[rupam]

i found the latest issue truely amazing specially because of the article about vision and learning.
i am an optometrist myself and was amazed to see the knowledge of old fox regarding the subject matter..
hats off to him..
its a visual treat to see the wonderful photographs...
waiting eagerly for the next issue....

[j4zb4]

This was my first edition of the magazine... I just loved the articles... Amazing write ups and photography...

Just a couple of things I noticed...

1. I think the inverted photography idea was used too much... It lost its novelty...

2. There were a lot of grammatical errors, missing words and spelling mistakes... Which I think shouldn't be there in a magazine of this caliber...

Apart from that Even my wife enjoyed reading the articles...

[rharish90]

First of all thanks for publishing my feedback of the last edition. I was totally surprised to see it get published. Thanks once again. Moving on, here is what I think about this edition.

- The two main articles (tips for endurance rides and myths) are too good. The sheer amount of quality knowledge that is shared there clearly sets this magazine apart.
- Though the write up of Diavel and half of Ninja versus CBR is already there in the site, a good job was done by adding some extra stuff. Although I feel that a Ninja versus CBR should have been presented as a single author article rather than have four people's views separately. I felt like I was starting all over again when starting with every person.
- 56 pages of stunting stuff alone (40 for Chris and 16 for MTV UG) is an over kill in my opinion. That is the only dislike from my side.
- Thanks for publishing the trip log done on a normal bike in south India in the IBA article. More such trip logs would on daily bikes in all parts of India would be nice. I do agree that when you try to position motorcycling as a lifestyle, the super bikes take the centre stage. But lifestyle is different for different people and not everyone can go for a super bike lifestyle. There are many more daily bikes too which perform exceptionally well.

Some general suggestions though

- A poster is missing. I said this last time too.
- When publishing the letters to the editor, it would have been nice if you guys can add a short reply to it and then publish it.
- The magazine is becoming more of a coffee table book with brilliant pictures by Sunny occupying more than 50% of the pages. This can be reduced I think. There are always websites for nice pictures including XBHP. But the quality content is available only on this magazine. Increasing it would make more sense I guess.

[sachinjuneja]

200 Pages Of Great Pleasure

hey friends,
I just read the recent issue of the xbhp magazine and it was completely amazing....A great package and the best magazine i've eva come across. All the chris Tour to india and i especially loved d article with d complete info on the bike posture which have so much of science involved..
All over its a great magazine and nothing can be better than this...Just a poster in the magazine would be lovely and a great gift for the walls of my room.
Regards
Sachin