Time To Trash The Print Magazine?

[Barry Brown]

Two thoughts come immediately to mind.
1-Inevitable complaints about delivery time of the print magazine.
2- statements that the print magazine is the single biggest expenditure for the club
So why not get with the programme and go digital? The Canadian Club has done this but lets members still receive the print version if they choose.

[T. Cotten]

Barry!

Gosh, even the magazine format is too modern for me. I don't read it except in the "reading room", and never all of it.
But I hoard them jealously.

Let's just wait a few years until us dinosaurs are dead. Won't be long.

Then replacing it will not be an issue, just like helmet laws will be redundant when all the kids want a Bluetooth plug-in, and the manufacturers put the gauge displays in a hologram in front of their nose.

Just think how novel and collectible these old dead-tree publications will be when our children remember them as nostalgic!

Nevermind.

...Cotten #776
PS: I hope my position is clear....

[Rollo]

No way! It is one of the things that I enjoy and anticipate seeing come even if it might be sporadic on delivery times. When the satellite goes haywire (and it will one day) then how would we get it. I say stick with what got you there. Man, I still runs points in my bikes!!!!! At least with a spare set in my pocket or tool bag I can get home. Enough new technology already! Luddite and proud of it!!!

Tom (Rollo) Hardy
AMCA # 12766

[Ohio-Rider]

Dump the hard copy magazine? No way!

Then what would we get for our thirty bucks?

[Paps]

Dump the hard copy magazine? No way!

Then what would we get for our thirty bucks?

Right On !!! Brother ! Paps

[t-jacobs]

I can't see me draging the computer into the bathroom for my morning reading.

[INLINE4NUT]

Ill take mine in paper print thank you !!

[RichO]

Doesn't deserve and answer but there's mine anyway!

[kunzog]

Eliminate the magazine? I dont think so! It is the one thing we get as a member. Go digital and I might as well stop paying dues.

[c.o.]

I like nothing more than to grab a cup of coffee in the morning and peruse through The Antique Motorcycle. I'm all for having it online as an option but I'd still like to get the paper in my hands.

[silentgreyfello]

Dump it? No way. The magazine is well worth the $30 per year. Heck, I spend way more than that taking my family out for dinner. The magazine is first class in my opinion, and I get many hours of enjoyment out of it.

[gary.h]

hows a guy supposed to get his vintage fixx when the power goes out!?!?:eek support yer local logger and use paper....:D

[droptopford]

Get rid of the magazine?...No Way! If anything they should add a centerfold. Ohhh Yeahhh.....

[LouieMCman]

Centerfold ! ...now there's an idea.......For all those (looks like ONE) that wants to get rid of the mag they (he) can find all the centerfolds they (he) want on the web...

[Will]

I vote for my paper copy. Mine has a hallowed place on the back of the toilet in the shop. If it disappeared my help would have my head.

[Barry Brown]

Whew! I guess that settles that!

[Chuck#1848]

Whew! I guess that settles that!

Come on now Barry.....you really didn't think that...or did you? :D

[exeric]

Get rid of the magazine?...No Way! If anything they should add a centerfold. Ohhh Yeahhh.....

I think the median age in the AMCA is 50. Personally, I don't want to see 50 year old centerfolds; regardless of how good looking she was in 1978. . . . Oh, you're talking about motorcycles. . . Well that's okay then.

[Chris Haynes]

I think the median age in the AMCA is 50. Personally, I don't want to see 50 year old centerfolds; regardless of how good looking she was in 1978. . . . Oh, you're talking about motorcycles. . . Well that's okay then.

I guess you haven't seen what a 70 year old Raquel Welsh looks like.
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3571815936/nm0000079

[T. Cotten]

Barry!

I want to apologize for the sarcasm of my previous reply, as someday your suggestion will become timely.

But in the meantime, please remember that many advertisers depend upon the long life of hardcopy.

Not me of course.
(Advertising would ruin my business.)

....Cotten

[exeric]

You're out in her part of the world Chris; see if Raquel wants to join the AMCA.

[Rub]

I guess you haven't seen what a 70 year old Raquel Welsh looks like.

A serious example of over-restoration liberally sprinkled with reproduction parts. No winners circle there!:D
Robbie

[T. Cotten]

A serious example of over-restoration liberally sprinkled with reproduction parts. No winners circle there!:D
Robbie

Robbie!

With all due respect, I saw a few seconds of her on the boob tube (pitiful pun, sorry) recently, and I am still impressed.

But please remember that she was repeatedly "period-modified", and that makes her un-judge-able by any objective criteria.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,
and historic machines must be judged objectively.

That may be impossible for this organization under present precedents.

....Cotten

[Barry Brown]

OK I'll come clean, I have probably more magazines than all of you combined, I just moved 12,000 to the barn. In 1967 at age 16 I hitch hiked to California and when in LA went to Clymers to buy books on old motorcycles ( the only place in the world I knew I could buy them) and then to Cycle World magazine offices where I bought the missing back issues for my Cycle World collection. Sick or what!!
In those years i had a great poster of Bridgit Bardot with a Harley 45 chopper. Unfortunately today she is not as well pickled or airbrushed as Racquel.

[fillibuster]

I'd pay double for twice as many issues.
The forum is lacking in several areas, most acutely in the lack of participation in the wants and for sales, NOT TO MENTION TRADE! .. probably stay that way until we get more players trained to use it. may take time.

[T. Cotten]

OK I'll come clean, I have probably more magazines than all of you combined, I just moved 12,000 to the barn. In 1967 at age 16 I hitch hiked to California and when in LA went to Clymers to buy books on old motorcycles ( the only place in the world I knew I could buy them) and then to Cycle World magazine offices where I bought the missing back issues for my Cycle World collection. Sick or what!!
In those years i had a great poster of Bridgit Bardot with a Harley 45 chopper. Unfortunately today she is not as well pickled or airbrushed as Racquel.

"Bridgit"?

Thank goodness you didn't mean "Gidget".

...Cotten