Sad news: Dirt Rag mountain bike magazine called it quits over the weekend. Announcement Here They had been showing signs of stress for a while, closing down their sister publication Bicycle Times and such, so it should be no great surprise. Still, sad news.1989–2020 was a good run for this sort of magazine. Born in the 'zine era on an early Mac, they made full use of desktop publishing and the web as they came along. They covered the boom years of suspension in the 90's, single speeds and freeriding in the 00's, and bigger wheel standards in the teens. There always seemed to be something to talk about, for three decades.
More and more print magazines seem to be reducing to web-only, or just shutting down entirely. I'm not sure how much relevance a how-to article has anymore in this age of three different ways to make a bike repair on youtube.
Well, good things come and good things go. Wonder what's next?
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