Comments on: The Great Recession’s Latest Victim: Cycle News (News)

By: RShark281

RShark281 — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:07:37 +0000

Totally bummed! In 1976 I would drive up to Signal Hill and buy my copy of CN every week. I have looked forward to getting my weekly issue since then and CANNOT believe it’s gone. When I didn’t get it in the mail, in a state of panic I thought my subscription had expired — I just wish that was the case. RacerX and the rest of them are for the kids, hell I’ve got scars older than 90% of their readers and I damn sure don’t care what f***ing tattoo the latest back flipping punk is wearing!!!! I’m PISSED!!

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By: Motophoto

Motophoto — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 23:02:06 +0000

I really hate to see any portal for
Moto News end. I do believe in karma. I have worked side by side with CN folks for years and most of them had way to big egos. People like Henny Ray and Paul C and Blake ALL thought there u know what didn’t stink. They all
made fun of All the new online sites and now they get knocked off their high horses. By the same people they joked about in the
media centers around the country. I renewed my subscription in August wonder how long to get my refund. Ya right….

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By: LJ

LJ — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:19:20 +0000

Although we have ceased publishing Cycle News the newspaper, we shall
continue to maintain the website CycleNews.com and post up to date
information about motorcycle sport.

We wish to continue to serve our many readers and to this end we will
continue to feature the best and most up-to-date news possible.

Thanks for sticking with us.

Bob NorVelle

Publisher

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By: kyle

kyle — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:28:55 +0000

One might want to see the parallels between this and “brink and mortor stores” and online stores for the industry to.

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By: YamaRider

YamaRider — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:35:00 +0000

I weep for the future of moto-journalism. When a top quality publication like CN cannot keep, let alone increase, its subscribers for only $50 a year, I see no hope for anyone else. I lost my job and I cut every expense except food, rent and my CN subscription. I even turned off cable because I was getting all my motorcycle racing news from CN. That’s how much I believed and treasured CN. Goodbye CN. I will miss your top notch coverage of all things motorcycles.

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By: Art

Art — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:56:39 +0000

This really sucks. CN was the only real publication. The rest were/are interesting but not in the same league. I feel like a good friend died. R.I.P. You’ll be sorely missed

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By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:21:32 +0000

“So a few talented, dedicated people lost their jobs. Why should you care? You should care because you care about motorcycling. Cycle News was real journalism, contrasted to the vast majority of motorcycling websites that merely regurgitate either industry press releases or rehashed articles from real news sources. When those real news outlets that have the infrastructure necessary to produce actual journalism, like—disappear, what will be left? Unfiltered press releases, which though informative, are hardly unbiased sources of good information. Would you read a magazine that was just advertising? Without real journalism, the Internet will be nothing but unfiltered, disorganized data (which isn’t news) and carefully targeted advertising.”

The irony of this paragraph is overwhelming…

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By: Norm G.

Norm G. — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:33:28 +0000

edit: CN capacity not CW…

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By: Norm G.

Norm G. — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:15:28 +0000

btw, scot russel’s sister (sheri) worked for cyclenews. and as far as i know, she was still working for them up till recently. last time i saw her in official CW capacity was as recently as miller wsbk ’08…? or indy ’09…? or somewheres…? she was one of those beautiful faces/personalities that was always a treat to see and talk to.

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By: Norm G.

Norm G. — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:49:33 +0000

morale of the the story…? yup, our beloved motorcycle industry is fragile. so i repeat: if abused, neglected, or not supported by the (tini) tiny masses that we represent as motorcyclists it will go away rest assured… and here we have yet another example. it’ll be interesting to see how many more examples will it take before our collective light bulbs cut on…? (if they ever cut on that is?) sure, we love paying lip-service about being “passionate” and “dedicated” to our hobby/sport, but are we really…? another something we LOVE to do is rag on nascar and the nascar fanbase (guilty as charged here), but if we are honest with ourselves, i contend we do so because of envy and jealousy. nascar fans support their industry to the Nth degree (if they didn’t, logic dictates it wouldn’t be the success that it is). us by comparison…? not so much.

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