PB now PS Magazine gone…

[podman]

Another end of an era.

If they cant make this magazine viable, doesnt hold out much hope for the rest of the motorcycle magazine industry really.

Either way, sad news especially for the team at the mag,
hopefully they will find other opportunities soon enough.

[rigga]

Just read that on FB, shame as it was the only mag worth buying.

[wildone63]

I was wondering why Alan Seeley was appearing in classic bike magazine again after many years away

[s1dew1nd3r]

that is absolutely shocking to read, i thought PS was STRONG and would be around for a long time!

[SS427 Camaro]

Very sad news, how many more will fold….

[Drawweight]

That’s a real shame as I looked forward to my monthly edition.

Monthly sales were running at 18k odd which is pretty far down the sales chats and about half of what Bike are running at.

Given a choice I’d take PS anyday but that not what the market is saying. Possibly the age range it’s aimed at don’t buy magazines but it fitted right into mine.

[Jazoli]

Wonder if it will make my issues 1-10 valuable

Shame about the mag, I read it every month now on readly and the 5p they get from that isn't going to pay the bills.

[SteveKTMer]

I use Readly too and wondered how much a magazine receives from Readly. Obviously not enough. I haven’t bought a paper magazine or newspaper for years since Readly.

[Kawasicki]

Sad to hear this, I’ve been an avid reader!

I‘ve moved to Germany, the equivalent mags here still seem to do pretty well.

[Blackpuddin]

Drawweight said:

Monthly sales were running at 18k odd which is pretty far down the sales chats and about half of what Bike are running at.

I get Bike as a freebie gift through my bank. It's a good mag but in these tough times I wouldn't pay the cover price for it, or any other, mag. I wonder if PS would have been viable if they had gone into partnership with a bank or similar organisation, getting some of their income that way.

[ssray]

I'm off to fast bikes now, ps had got a bit samey, I'd get it and not have read it all by the time the next one was out

[Waynester]

Shocked to read this! I have had a subscription with PS for years.. I have stacks of the magazines including issue 1. Sad news

There used to be so many bike mags, Fast bikes, PS, MCI, What Bike, etc.. & Now just Classic Bikes?

[trickywoo]

They made no effort to move with the times. They had years to do something and didn't even really try.

I'm surprised anyone is surprised.

[Tango13]

trickywoo said:

They made no effort to move with the times. They had years to do something and didn't even really try.

I'm surprised anyone is surprised.

I used to read PB back in the day but after the Rupert Paul & Mark Forsyth era I found it went backwards towards a lads mags and tits oot type of magazine so I stopped subscribing.

At one point I think PB was outselling Bike by 10 or 20 thousand copies a month!!

[gareth_r]

Waynester said:

Shocked to read this! I have had a subscription with PS for years.. I have stacks of the magazines including issue 1. Sad news

There used to be so many bike mags, Fast bikes, PS, MCI, What Bike, etc.. & Now just Classic Bikes?

Bauer still have Bike, RiDE, Classic Bike, Built quarterly, and MCN.

Mortons publish
Classic Bike Guide
Classic Dirt Bike
Classic Mechanics
Classic MotorCycle
Real Classic
Back Street Heroes
Fast Bikes
Motorcycle Sport & Leisure

plus the Old Bike Mart and MoreBikes newspapers and a couple of Scooter magazines (and they still have websites for Which Bike and On 2 Wheels).

[s1dew1nd3r]

gareth_r said:

Bauer still have Bike, RiDE, Classic Bike, Built quarterly, and MCN.

Mortons publish
Classic Bike Guide
Classic Dirt Bike
Classic Mechanics
Classic MotorCycle
Real Classic
Back Street Heroes
Fast Bikes
Motorcycle Sport & Leisure

plus the Old Bike Mart and MoreBikes newspapers and a couple of Scooter magazines (and they still have websites for Which Bike and On 2 Wheels).

out of them would you say Fast Bikes is the likely one to go to now PS has gone?

[clive_candy]

Tango13 said:

trickywoo said:

They made no effort to move with the times. They had years to do something and didn't even really try.

I'm surprised anyone is surprised.

I used to read PB back in the day but after the Rupert Paul & Mark Forsyth era I found it went backwards towards a lads mags and tits oot type of magazine so I stopped subscribing.

At one point I think PB was outselling Bike by 10 or 20 thousand copies a month!!

Gratuitous?

[SS427 Camaro]

God I’m gonna seem ancient, but I first started reading BIKE magazine way back in early 1974, when my pal next door, kindly gave me a small pile of BIKE ( I Still have them ! ) that his Honda CB175 complete with white open face lid and goggles - riding older brother wanted rid of. It was absolutely cutting edge @ that time, but todays version is a mere shadow of what it was then !

[DirtyHarley]

The problem with a lot of magazines, not just biker ones but the format in general, is that they struggle to compete with the online publications and adapt their models to things like Readly.
Most mags that are still around are shadows of their former selves in the physical domain having shifted their primary content online behind an online subscription model that is either cheaper or offers daily updates; chuck that in with the huge increases in print and distribution costs over the last 5 years and its unsurprising that so many have folded.
It's a shame that its gone, but with the same/very similiar content available online for either free or preanuts I don't think anyone is going to miss out.

[jason61c]

PS is a pretty st mag anyway. So is the content. They should have kept PB, just with a freshen up in the senior management.