Copyright 2020 CycleNews. Anderson, an engineer himself, maintained Cycle's technical focus and the editorial excellence associated with his predecessors.
Many products featured on this site were editorially chosen. “I think the owner thought bicycle magazines were the future and they had just started one and I think he was just stretched too thin. Does any one know if any of the editors of Cycle Guide went to Beliot? It presented its articles in a block, in other words you didn’t have to go to the back of the magazine to finish an article.
And lastly, Cycle Guide gained a reputation for naming definitive winners in head-to-head tests. That was cool.
During its heyday, in the 1970s and 1980s, it had a circulation of more than 500,000 and was headquartered in Westlake Village, California, near the canyon roads of the Santa Monica Mountains, where Cycle's editors frequently road tested and photographed test bikes.
We’d gone from monthly to nine issues a year in the last year or two.”. For example when Paul Dean (former Cycle Guide editor) was hired at Cycle World, we, at the time I was writing for him, went to Laredo (Texas, at the Uniroyal 5-mile test track) with the then new GSXR750 and captured six or 12, I don’t remember, FIM world speed records. In addition to being a journalist, he was also a successful motorcycle racer, best known for a much celebrated 1977 Daytona Superbike win on a Phil Schilling-tuned Ducati 750 Supersport nicknamed "Old Blue" and "the California Hot Rod."
Addeddate 2015-02-23 04:13:33 Google-id i8_7wR77B1UC Identifier bub_gb_i8_7wR77B1UC Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t5k96fz17 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Pages 1703 For Cycle (the members' magazine of the Cyclists' Touring Club, UK), see, Biographical History and Scrapbook of Floyd Clymer: 1895-1970, AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame Biography: Floyd Clymer, Vaughn, Mark, West Coast Editor. Neilson, popular for his irreverent, entertaining, and insightful writing, was promoted to editor in 1969, at the age of 26. Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's Cycle News - Archive Issues - 2000's This collection includes all of our Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's Flipbooks
P. Thomas Sargent was publisher. At some point there was an article written by one of the editors about his experiences in College. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Through the ‘70s circulation actually began to drop. I totaled the bike and dislocated my shoulder. They used full-page photos of motorcycles at speed from unique angles for the background of their contents page.
Many products featured on this site were editorially chosen. “I think the owner thought bicycle magazines were the future and they had just started one and I think he was just stretched too thin. Does any one know if any of the editors of Cycle Guide went to Beliot? It presented its articles in a block, in other words you didn’t have to go to the back of the magazine to finish an article.
And lastly, Cycle Guide gained a reputation for naming definitive winners in head-to-head tests. That was cool.
During its heyday, in the 1970s and 1980s, it had a circulation of more than 500,000 and was headquartered in Westlake Village, California, near the canyon roads of the Santa Monica Mountains, where Cycle's editors frequently road tested and photographed test bikes.
We’d gone from monthly to nine issues a year in the last year or two.”. For example when Paul Dean (former Cycle Guide editor) was hired at Cycle World, we, at the time I was writing for him, went to Laredo (Texas, at the Uniroyal 5-mile test track) with the then new GSXR750 and captured six or 12, I don’t remember, FIM world speed records. In addition to being a journalist, he was also a successful motorcycle racer, best known for a much celebrated 1977 Daytona Superbike win on a Phil Schilling-tuned Ducati 750 Supersport nicknamed "Old Blue" and "the California Hot Rod."
Addeddate 2015-02-23 04:13:33 Google-id i8_7wR77B1UC Identifier bub_gb_i8_7wR77B1UC Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t5k96fz17 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Pages 1703 For Cycle (the members' magazine of the Cyclists' Touring Club, UK), see, Biographical History and Scrapbook of Floyd Clymer: 1895-1970, AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame Biography: Floyd Clymer, Vaughn, Mark, West Coast Editor. Neilson, popular for his irreverent, entertaining, and insightful writing, was promoted to editor in 1969, at the age of 26. Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's Cycle News - Archive Issues - 2000's This collection includes all of our Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's Flipbooks
P. Thomas Sargent was publisher. At some point there was an article written by one of the editors about his experiences in College. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Through the ‘70s circulation actually began to drop. I totaled the bike and dislocated my shoulder. They used full-page photos of motorcycles at speed from unique angles for the background of their contents page.
Many products featured on this site were editorially chosen. “I think the owner thought bicycle magazines were the future and they had just started one and I think he was just stretched too thin. Does any one know if any of the editors of Cycle Guide went to Beliot? It presented its articles in a block, in other words you didn’t have to go to the back of the magazine to finish an article.
And lastly, Cycle Guide gained a reputation for naming definitive winners in head-to-head tests. That was cool.
During its heyday, in the 1970s and 1980s, it had a circulation of more than 500,000 and was headquartered in Westlake Village, California, near the canyon roads of the Santa Monica Mountains, where Cycle's editors frequently road tested and photographed test bikes.
We’d gone from monthly to nine issues a year in the last year or two.”. For example when Paul Dean (former Cycle Guide editor) was hired at Cycle World, we, at the time I was writing for him, went to Laredo (Texas, at the Uniroyal 5-mile test track) with the then new GSXR750 and captured six or 12, I don’t remember, FIM world speed records. In addition to being a journalist, he was also a successful motorcycle racer, best known for a much celebrated 1977 Daytona Superbike win on a Phil Schilling-tuned Ducati 750 Supersport nicknamed "Old Blue" and "the California Hot Rod."
Addeddate 2015-02-23 04:13:33 Google-id i8_7wR77B1UC Identifier bub_gb_i8_7wR77B1UC Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t5k96fz17 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Pages 1703 For Cycle (the members' magazine of the Cyclists' Touring Club, UK), see, Biographical History and Scrapbook of Floyd Clymer: 1895-1970, AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame Biography: Floyd Clymer, Vaughn, Mark, West Coast Editor. Neilson, popular for his irreverent, entertaining, and insightful writing, was promoted to editor in 1969, at the age of 26. Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's Cycle News - Archive Issues - 2000's This collection includes all of our Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's Flipbooks
P. Thomas Sargent was publisher. At some point there was an article written by one of the editors about his experiences in College. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Through the ‘70s circulation actually began to drop. I totaled the bike and dislocated my shoulder. They used full-page photos of motorcycles at speed from unique angles for the background of their contents page.
Many products featured on this site were editorially chosen. “I think the owner thought bicycle magazines were the future and they had just started one and I think he was just stretched too thin. Does any one know if any of the editors of Cycle Guide went to Beliot? It presented its articles in a block, in other words you didn’t have to go to the back of the magazine to finish an article.
And lastly, Cycle Guide gained a reputation for naming definitive winners in head-to-head tests. That was cool.
During its heyday, in the 1970s and 1980s, it had a circulation of more than 500,000 and was headquartered in Westlake Village, California, near the canyon roads of the Santa Monica Mountains, where Cycle's editors frequently road tested and photographed test bikes.
We’d gone from monthly to nine issues a year in the last year or two.”. For example when Paul Dean (former Cycle Guide editor) was hired at Cycle World, we, at the time I was writing for him, went to Laredo (Texas, at the Uniroyal 5-mile test track) with the then new GSXR750 and captured six or 12, I don’t remember, FIM world speed records. In addition to being a journalist, he was also a successful motorcycle racer, best known for a much celebrated 1977 Daytona Superbike win on a Phil Schilling-tuned Ducati 750 Supersport nicknamed "Old Blue" and "the California Hot Rod."
Addeddate 2015-02-23 04:13:33 Google-id i8_7wR77B1UC Identifier bub_gb_i8_7wR77B1UC Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t5k96fz17 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Pages 1703 For Cycle (the members' magazine of the Cyclists' Touring Club, UK), see, Biographical History and Scrapbook of Floyd Clymer: 1895-1970, AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame Biography: Floyd Clymer, Vaughn, Mark, West Coast Editor. Neilson, popular for his irreverent, entertaining, and insightful writing, was promoted to editor in 1969, at the age of 26. Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's Cycle News - Archive Issues - 2000's This collection includes all of our Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's Flipbooks
P. Thomas Sargent was publisher. At some point there was an article written by one of the editors about his experiences in College. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Through the ‘70s circulation actually began to drop. I totaled the bike and dislocated my shoulder. They used full-page photos of motorcycles at speed from unique angles for the background of their contents page.
Many products featured on this site were editorially chosen. “I think the owner thought bicycle magazines were the future and they had just started one and I think he was just stretched too thin. Does any one know if any of the editors of Cycle Guide went to Beliot? It presented its articles in a block, in other words you didn’t have to go to the back of the magazine to finish an article.
And lastly, Cycle Guide gained a reputation for naming definitive winners in head-to-head tests. That was cool.
During its heyday, in the 1970s and 1980s, it had a circulation of more than 500,000 and was headquartered in Westlake Village, California, near the canyon roads of the Santa Monica Mountains, where Cycle's editors frequently road tested and photographed test bikes.
We’d gone from monthly to nine issues a year in the last year or two.”. For example when Paul Dean (former Cycle Guide editor) was hired at Cycle World, we, at the time I was writing for him, went to Laredo (Texas, at the Uniroyal 5-mile test track) with the then new GSXR750 and captured six or 12, I don’t remember, FIM world speed records. In addition to being a journalist, he was also a successful motorcycle racer, best known for a much celebrated 1977 Daytona Superbike win on a Phil Schilling-tuned Ducati 750 Supersport nicknamed "Old Blue" and "the California Hot Rod."
Addeddate 2015-02-23 04:13:33 Google-id i8_7wR77B1UC Identifier bub_gb_i8_7wR77B1UC Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t5k96fz17 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Pages 1703 For Cycle (the members' magazine of the Cyclists' Touring Club, UK), see, Biographical History and Scrapbook of Floyd Clymer: 1895-1970, AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame Biography: Floyd Clymer, Vaughn, Mark, West Coast Editor. Neilson, popular for his irreverent, entertaining, and insightful writing, was promoted to editor in 1969, at the age of 26. Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's Cycle News - Archive Issues - 2000's This collection includes all of our Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's Flipbooks
P. Thomas Sargent was publisher. At some point there was an article written by one of the editors about his experiences in College. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Through the ‘70s circulation actually began to drop. I totaled the bike and dislocated my shoulder. They used full-page photos of motorcycles at speed from unique angles for the background of their contents page.
Many products featured on this site were editorially chosen. “I think the owner thought bicycle magazines were the future and they had just started one and I think he was just stretched too thin. Does any one know if any of the editors of Cycle Guide went to Beliot? It presented its articles in a block, in other words you didn’t have to go to the back of the magazine to finish an article.
And lastly, Cycle Guide gained a reputation for naming definitive winners in head-to-head tests. That was cool.
During its heyday, in the 1970s and 1980s, it had a circulation of more than 500,000 and was headquartered in Westlake Village, California, near the canyon roads of the Santa Monica Mountains, where Cycle's editors frequently road tested and photographed test bikes.
We’d gone from monthly to nine issues a year in the last year or two.”. For example when Paul Dean (former Cycle Guide editor) was hired at Cycle World, we, at the time I was writing for him, went to Laredo (Texas, at the Uniroyal 5-mile test track) with the then new GSXR750 and captured six or 12, I don’t remember, FIM world speed records. In addition to being a journalist, he was also a successful motorcycle racer, best known for a much celebrated 1977 Daytona Superbike win on a Phil Schilling-tuned Ducati 750 Supersport nicknamed "Old Blue" and "the California Hot Rod."
Addeddate 2015-02-23 04:13:33 Google-id i8_7wR77B1UC Identifier bub_gb_i8_7wR77B1UC Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t5k96fz17 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Pages 1703 For Cycle (the members' magazine of the Cyclists' Touring Club, UK), see, Biographical History and Scrapbook of Floyd Clymer: 1895-1970, AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame Biography: Floyd Clymer, Vaughn, Mark, West Coast Editor. Neilson, popular for his irreverent, entertaining, and insightful writing, was promoted to editor in 1969, at the age of 26. Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's Cycle News - Archive Issues - 2000's This collection includes all of our Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's Flipbooks
P. Thomas Sargent was publisher. At some point there was an article written by one of the editors about his experiences in College. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Through the ‘70s circulation actually began to drop. I totaled the bike and dislocated my shoulder. They used full-page photos of motorcycles at speed from unique angles for the background of their contents page.
Paul Dean was showing me how they conducted tests and when it came to the 60-0 mph stopping test I was really at the peak of my racing and I guess I turned in a really impressive stopping distance.
One day there was a particular girl standing around so he needed to make a particular impression, which he did by crashing right in front of her. In 1978 Cycle Guide’s owner George Dougherty, brought in Car and Driver’s executive editor Steve Thompson to do a complete overhaul of the magazine. Cycle … Since I started reading Cycle Guide in the mid-80’s the thing I remember most was chroming their pick for bike of the year. Sure enough when Jeff Karr left Paul Dean got in touch with me.
Thanks for the comments Stu.
Great pass down Memory Lane as always LL!
Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Thompson, Frank Conner, Sam Moses, Art Friedman, Jeff Karr, Paul Dean, Michael Jordan, Larry Works, Charles Everitt, Ron Lawson, Jerry Smith, Riley Tharp, Joe Kress and on and on. Price: $29.95 Publication Date: January 1950 View Details. It was a fabulous coinsidence. All of this was done on a shoestring budget when compared to the other three major motorcycle books.
But the real star to emerge from Cycle Guide was a young west coast road racing champion named Dain Gingerelli. At the end of 1988, Hachette Filipacchi moved Cycle from Westlake Village to Newport Beach, California, to the same offices that housed Cycle World. “We had to do it with less than our competition a Cycle, Cycle World and Motorcyclist,” Thompson said.
At that time, the two magazines were consolidated under one publisher and advertising staff.
Cycle Magazine. “Part of it was I was the sport editor and I got to ride all the cool race bikes. Thompson said he felt that the magazine was very close to being killed and his hiring was a last-ditch effort by Dougherty to save the magazine. [3] Clymer owned Cycle until 1966, when he sold the publication to the New York-based publishing company Ziff-Davis Publications, which owned it through the mid-1980s. He is credited with making the magazine successful through the 1970s and popularizing the comparison test format.
During its heyday, in the 1970s and 1980s, it had a circulation of more than 500,000 and was headquartered in Westlake Village, California, near the canyon roads of the Santa Monica Mountains, where Cycle's editors frequently road tested and photographed test bikes. “I remember the first test I did for the magazine was a Kawasaki KZ650.
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In the story he told of “racing” his bike (Triumph?) The magazine was launched in 1967 by Kable News Company, one of the nation’s leading magazine distribution companies. Among contributors was cartoonist Tom Medley, best known for Stroker McGurk; he would create an equivalent character, Flat Out Snodgrass, for Cycle.
Originally Cycle … Price: $15.95 Publication Date: January 1977 View Details. Cycle was an American motorcycling enthusiast magazine, published from the early 1950s through the early 1990s. The magazine was launched in 1967 by Kable News Company, one of the nation’s leading magazine distribution companies. ( Log Out /
I guess it all worked out in the end, but I forgot about it.
As a magazine-format, space was limited and although road-race and off-road sport reportage was always present, Motor Cycle enjoyed a reputation more as a technically based periodical.
Cycle Guide Magazine was one of the countless special interest magazines that popped up in the 1960s and ‘70s.
up the street in front of the frat houses and making the 90 degree turn in front of the dorms. Cycle February 1950. He kept wanting to see if I could shorten the distance even more and final I just nailed the brakes with all I had and bam! The following summer when I went home i rummaged through the old mags for hours but I finally found the issue. In 1974, during a short sabbatical from the magazine, he wrote The Motorcycle World (RidgePress/Random House, 1974), one of the first general-interest books about motorcycles and motorcycle racing, still in demand today.
He was beloved among Cycle readers—known for his acerbic wit, his technical know-how, his easy-to-understand project and "basic" articles, and his 1973 Two-Stroke Tuner's Handbook, which is still highly sought after by tuners. “And I could be just succumbing to self-induced delusion, but at its peak in the early 1980s I think Cycle Guide built an esprit de corps with the readers and helped reshape what was expected from a motorcycle magazine.”.
Copyright 2020 CycleNews. Anderson, an engineer himself, maintained Cycle's technical focus and the editorial excellence associated with his predecessors.
Many products featured on this site were editorially chosen. “I think the owner thought bicycle magazines were the future and they had just started one and I think he was just stretched too thin. Does any one know if any of the editors of Cycle Guide went to Beliot? It presented its articles in a block, in other words you didn’t have to go to the back of the magazine to finish an article.
And lastly, Cycle Guide gained a reputation for naming definitive winners in head-to-head tests. That was cool.
During its heyday, in the 1970s and 1980s, it had a circulation of more than 500,000 and was headquartered in Westlake Village, California, near the canyon roads of the Santa Monica Mountains, where Cycle's editors frequently road tested and photographed test bikes.
We’d gone from monthly to nine issues a year in the last year or two.”. For example when Paul Dean (former Cycle Guide editor) was hired at Cycle World, we, at the time I was writing for him, went to Laredo (Texas, at the Uniroyal 5-mile test track) with the then new GSXR750 and captured six or 12, I don’t remember, FIM world speed records. In addition to being a journalist, he was also a successful motorcycle racer, best known for a much celebrated 1977 Daytona Superbike win on a Phil Schilling-tuned Ducati 750 Supersport nicknamed "Old Blue" and "the California Hot Rod."
Addeddate 2015-02-23 04:13:33 Google-id i8_7wR77B1UC Identifier bub_gb_i8_7wR77B1UC Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t5k96fz17 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Pages 1703 For Cycle (the members' magazine of the Cyclists' Touring Club, UK), see, Biographical History and Scrapbook of Floyd Clymer: 1895-1970, AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame Biography: Floyd Clymer, Vaughn, Mark, West Coast Editor. Neilson, popular for his irreverent, entertaining, and insightful writing, was promoted to editor in 1969, at the age of 26. Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's Cycle News - Archive Issues - 2000's This collection includes all of our Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's Flipbooks
P. Thomas Sargent was publisher. At some point there was an article written by one of the editors about his experiences in College. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Through the ‘70s circulation actually began to drop. I totaled the bike and dislocated my shoulder. They used full-page photos of motorcycles at speed from unique angles for the background of their contents page.
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