Cafe Racer Magazine

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I was checking out their website, caferacermag.com and was wondering if anyone subscribes. It looks like it might be cool but it is a lot of money for 6 episodes a year.
 
I don't have a subscription, but I've bought a few. It's pretty cool, nothing absolutely amazing. As for the price, heck, I think all magazines cost 5 or 6 bucks now. It's not like the good old days when a magazine cost three dollars!
 
Best thing I got out of that magazine so far has been the Dime City discount code: CRMAG. It's an ok magazine, though. I wouldn't subscribe, but it's nice to pick up and read in the garage.
 
I don't see the benefit in subscribing. My wife got me a subscription, I usually just thumb through it when I'm in the garage having a smoke.

There is no discount benefit over subscribing, nor do you get them faster if you subscribe (they send out their subscribers mags when they send them out to the stores, and around here the store that sells it gets it about 2 weeks before I do). So basically you get them for the same price but quicker if you just go to the store and pick it up, plus you can only get the ones that interest you.
 
That's very true too. I have stood at the store and looked through a couple different issues and just said "meh, nothing in here for me." The issues I've seen have a lot of feature bikes and events, but there is very little usable / good tech information. If you've ever read a Car Craft magazine, the structure of this magazine is basically exactly the opposite. Some of it is entertaining, but you don't really ready it and learn anything, which to me, is the point of magazines like that.
 
Good info.

I used to get car craft, I am deff into how-to technical mags more than show mags. Looks like I will deffinately pass this mag up.

Thanks for the good info.
 
Not much to add, just want to see where this goes.

What type of Tech stuff would you like to see?
 
It sucks. Trendy B.S. Bunch of folks who see a fad and want to make a dollar. Most bikes are crappy, and the tech stuff is shitty. DoTheTon is 10000x more informative and the bikes here are better by far. Plus its free (for ya cheepskates who dont chip in ;) ).
 
I wouldnt mind reading more about builders and their motivation and techniques. I cant afford a bridgeport so seeing something amazing built with basic tools is more impressive than watching a programmed CNC go to work. More coverage of local shows, higher quality photos. A specialties section for services and parts with reviews would be cool too.
 
VonYinzer said:
It sucks. Trendy B.S. Bunch of folks who see a fad and want to make a dollar. Most bikes are crappy, and the tech stuff is shitty. DoTheTon is 10000x more informative and the bikes here are better by far. Plus its free (for ya cheepskates who dont chip in ;) ).
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I agree. Between SOHC and DTT Ive learned a bunch but there is something to be said for taking a good magazine to the throne... I dont think Ive learned anything new from CafeRacer magazine yet, but Ill keep buying it in the hopes that I do.
 
This is good info for future freelancing opportunities for me. By all means, please keep talking. Love to have others chime in.
 
I do subscribe to Cafe Racer Mag...but its pretty much just for reading while on the shitter.
However, Motorcycle Classics mag is FAR superior in my opinion.
 
teddpage said:
I do subscribe to Cafe Racer Mag...but its pretty much just for reading while on the shitter.
However, Motorcycle Classics mag is FAR superior in my opinion.
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+1
 
The Horse has really nice How-To's that sometimes can cover multiple pages and multiple issues. Downside is that The Horse is very chopper biased, although they are open to a multitude of cheap chopper (Honda/Yamaha/Harley/Triumph).

It's my opinion that if you want to see really crazy builds with high price tags and lots of never-before-seen stuff, you want an US-based magazine.

If you want classy, style driven cheap builds...look at a Japanese vintage oriented mag.

JUNK Mag, Hot Bike, etc.
 
Very cool. It's my goals his week to post a tech guide with high quality pictures walking through step by step how to do a mod out of the "$50 Mod Thread". Would love to have y'all stop by and have a read through and let me know if that would be something you'd like to read in a magazine. I'll try to remember and post something about it when I get it up.
 
Dyrden, you hit it on the head. Mags are mostly bathroom reading, but I don't like wasting my money on mags that do not offer anything. I get most of my tech stuff from here but there are mags that offer some other info as well.

I don't even usually check out this mag (the horse) but I happened to flip one open at the store the other day and they had a great write up on making LED lights out of cheap LED flashlights.

There are some decent mags that offer some good info. I like my mags like I like my cars and bike, trailer queens suck, build something useful and ride the crap out of it!
 
I know in the latest issue that features last years Mods vs Rockers Cleveland there are 3 handsome lads pictured on the first page of the article. The one to the right especially ;)
 
I quit reading not very many issues in. I leaf through it on the rack now and pick it up when I see someone I know's bike. It's the same problem as the show. Mike Seate went from writing for a chopper mag to modern sportbike mags to this. And it is painfully apparent that the trend is the most interesting part of this scene to the people who put that mag together. All fluff and posturing. Dude you're not from England and not too long ago you were decrying jap-crap in Iron Horse magazine. And all of a sudden you're full of British euphamisms. Plus they never drop forum names in their articles and Mr. Seate has gone as far as to write an editorial in his mag decrying forums as a waste of time. Where do you think this new trend that sees you wiping your ass with twenty dollar bills came from???
Ahem... Anyway yes a there is a lack of true tech in the mag. But just like I said over in the tv thread. Why read that drivel once you've found this place?
 
VonYinzer said:
It sucks. Trendy B.S. Bunch of folks who see a fad and want to make a dollar. Most bikes are crappy, and the tech stuff is shitty. DoTheTon is 10000x more informative and the bikes here are better by far. Plus its free (for ya cheepskates who dont chip in ;) ).
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... what he said!!! just sayin...
 
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