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Spin Cycle online mag releases print annual

Best of quarterly e-zine in whopping print edition

Spin Cycle has been exploring cycle racing culture in the form of an online magazine since 2012. The Spin Cycle team have just announced they are giving in to requests for a print edition with a 272-page annual.

Spin Cycle creators James Maloney and Dan Kenyon said: “We've been asked continually for a print edition, and although we haven't the time and funds to bring out a print version of each quarterly we have decided that a printed, limited edition annual of the best articles of the year would be something we could manage to produce once a year.”

Just 1500 copies will be printed, at £15. Orders are now being taken, and the annual will be printed and sent the first week of May.  Everyone who places an advance order will go into a draw to win a signed Lampre Merida team jersey from this year's Tour de France, donated by Champion Systems.

The annual features an introduction by Herbie Sykes (author of Maglia Rosa) and interviews with veterans and new young riders including the life story of Bill Bradley, the only man to win back to back Milk races. It also contains photo stories on 2013's Tour of Britain and the Eddie Soens Road Race, and Brian Sweeney talking Scottish beat poetry style about Glasgow fixies. Plus there is an exclusive in the annual, an interview with Sue Gornall who rode the women’s Tour de France four times.

Dan and James said: “Digital is great but it's a little like looking at the Great Barrier Reef through a glass bottomed boat: you're seeing it but you're not really immersed in the whole experience.”

To find out more and place an order, go to Spin Cycle Magazine

John has been writing about bikes and cycling for over 30 years since discovering that people were mug enough to pay him for it rather than expecting him to do an honest day's work.

He was heavily involved in the mountain bike boom of the late 1980s as a racer, team manager and race promoter, and that led to writing for Mountain Biking UK magazine shortly after its inception. He got the gig by phoning up the editor and telling him the magazine was rubbish and he could do better. Rather than telling him to get lost, MBUK editor Tym Manley called John’s bluff and the rest is history.

Since then he has worked on MTB Pro magazine and was editor of Maximum Mountain Bike and Australian Mountain Bike magazines, before switching to the web in 2000 to work for CyclingNews.com. Along with road.cc founder Tony Farrelly, John was on the launch team for BikeRadar.com and subsequently became editor in chief of Future Publishing’s group of cycling magazines and websites, including Cycling Plus, MBUK, What Mountain Bike and Procycling.

John has also written for Cyclist magazine, edited the BikeMagic website and was founding editor of TotalWomensCycling.com before handing over to someone far more representative of the site's main audience.

He joined road.cc in 2013. He lives in Cambridge where the lack of hills is more than made up for by the headwinds.

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antonio | 10 years ago
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Looks good, got my order in.

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