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MBR readers wanted

Postby Kate » Tue May 25, 2010 11:45 am

Hi all,

Please see below, and email Joanna if your free and interested:

We're looking for occasional readers of our Mountain Bike Rider magazine to take part in an evening research session on Wednesday 2 June

Are you free on the evening of Wednesday 2nd June ?
Do you read MBR and / or any other Mountain bike magazines (either every issue or quite regularly) ?
Can you can spare an hour of your time to visit us at our head office which is located near London Bridge?

If you can answer yes to these three questions, then we would really like to hear from you - and it might just be worth your while. !!

Interested? If so please contact Joanna Griffin ( joanna_griffin@ipcmedia.com)

Many thanks
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Re: MBR readers wanted

Postby Andrew G » Tue May 25, 2010 12:50 pm

I'll ping an email as I work near London Bridge and read Singletrack so will see if that's any good to them.
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Re: MBR readers wanted

Postby Sylv » Tue May 25, 2010 1:29 pm

[quote="Andrew G"]and read Singletrack so will see if that's any good to them.

:lol:

Sorry Kate won't be around
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Re: MBR readers wanted

Postby Grahame » Tue May 25, 2010 2:15 pm

Sorry, I've not read MBR since about 2000 when they were claiming that 27speed drivetrains and 4 inches of travel at each end were the absolute minimum necessary for crosscountry racing. This was the month that my team from Harrogate, riding Singlespeeds beat the MBR team by over a lap at the (then) Red Bull Mountain Mayhem. There wasn't a singlespeed category that year, so we had settled for 32nd in Sport.
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Re: MBR readers wanted

Postby Sylv » Tue May 25, 2010 2:20 pm

I'll read it in August cos i'm in it :D
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Re: MBR readers wanted

Postby Kate » Thu May 27, 2010 1:04 pm

Marco - I'm under strict orders not to say 'why it might be worth your while'

Thanks to those who are able to help.

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Re: MBR readers wanted

Postby Dombo » Thu May 27, 2010 1:59 pm

Which do you want, occasional readers or regular? Does flicking through it in the newsagents count?

I have to say I started losing interest when it got too elitist: "We test budget full-bouncers for under £1,500" and treating £300-£500 bikes as an embarrassing joke. I do however work near LB also so shall drop her an email.
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Re: MBR readers wanted

Postby Kate » Thu May 27, 2010 2:27 pm

Sorry it's not very clear. It's occasional readers this time round.
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Re: MBR readers wanted

Postby Dombo » Thu May 27, 2010 4:48 pm

I'll be there
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Re: MBR readers wanted

Postby Andrew G » Thu May 27, 2010 5:10 pm

I said I'd got it a couple of times, and that I was roadie who did a bit of MTBing for fun and I seemed to fit the bill.

I don't know what it used to be like, what they said, or what it's like now really. I get singletrack because the articles are good, it's a good read, and the production/layout quality is of a high standard.

Nearly every other cycling mag of most descriptions is pretty crap these days as they repeat the same thing every week. They all tend to jump in to the Emperor's new clothes whatever the "thing" of the moment is (gadget/technique/diet etc) and must read to many pamphlets full of bullsh** from manufacturers as so much of what's written is rubbish using the same invented terminology the manufacturer uses to big up their new toy.

See you there Dom.
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Re: MBR readers wanted

Postby Jon H » Thu May 27, 2010 5:23 pm

[quote="Andrew G"]I said I'd got it a couple of times, and that I was roadie who did a bit of MTBing for fun and I seemed to fit the bill.

They probably just want to laugh at your short shaved freckly legs :lol:
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Re: MBR readers wanted

Postby Kate » Wed Jun 02, 2010 10:33 pm

Thank you to everyone that came tonight.
Any other feedback you would like to give, feel free to let me know and i'll pass it on.

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Re: MBR readers wanted

Postby Dan_K » Thu Jun 03, 2010 8:29 am

I found it quite an enjoyable evening.
Went on a bit longer than I thought and I didn't receive a copy of the magazine in advance which made the current issue difficult to comment on.

I think that some of the questions could have been asked in advance to save a bit of time on the evening. Things like riding habits etc.

I was suprised that a lot of the group don't ride their bikes from one month to the next!
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Re: MBR readers wanted

Postby Ivor » Thu Jun 03, 2010 8:56 am

[quote="Dan_K"]I found it quite an enjoyable evening.
Went on a bit longer than I thought and I didn't receive a copy of the magazine in advance which made the current issue difficult to comment on.
I think that some of the questions could have been asked in advance to save a bit of time on the evening. Things like riding habits etc.
I was surprised that a lot of the group don't ride their bikes from one month to the next!


I guess there were several groups then! Enjoyed our session, agree that a quick questionnaire beforehand might have helped reduce the "intro" bit that eat up quite a lot of time, although was brilliant to hear from the mountain unicyclist we had - and felt a little out of place describing my "hack" mountain bike that I use to tow a trailer compared to the guys with some seriously nice sounding kit!

The outcome from my session was that I now know I ought to pick up a copy of singletrack magazine to take a look at. :lol: perhaps not the intended result. :)
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Re: MBR readers wanted

Postby higg » Thu Jun 03, 2010 6:33 pm

I didn't realise there were so many ACC at this. I went to the 8pm session so probably met some of you ! Quite interesting evening, very impressive view from the office, especially at sunset.

Not sure what happened about sending out the magazine, it looked like some people did get them beforehand, I didn't even get an address for the office, I looked it up on the internet.

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