Practical Sportsbike and Performance Bikes, two magazines in the Bauer stable, are to merge.
The publisher says that from March the titles will unite to “create the biggest, best and most complete magazine for owners, builders, enthusiasts of performance motorcycles, of all areas”.
The unified magazine will be called Practical SportsBikes, incorporating Performance Bikes.
An editorial by editor Chris Newbigging said: “It’s a logical progression for both magazines: Performance Bikes remains the authority on the cutting edge and continues to uphold the values of complete and considered testing.
“Practical Sportsbikes has gone from strength to strength. Conceived and written by a cast of former PB staff, no-one else knows the modern classic world as well as PS: in fact, it has actively helped shape the community the mag has served for the past 100 issues.
“But the world is changing for both mags and we realised that the aims of the two sibling publications heavily overlapped. It’s time to heed the calls of PS readers who want to read about bikes outside of the old 1970-1990s remit too. PB, meanwhile, craves the time to focus on the very best of the sportsbike world – not just brand new bikes, but the finest technology, racing wisdom and insight, from the man in the shed to MotoGP and everything in between.
“You’re only as old as you feel: enthusiasm, entertainment and knowledge know no age restriction: why should a magazine? So we’re bringing two magazines under one roof. We’ll cover restoration, modification, repairs, performance testing, tools/parts/services, reviews, events, race bikes, technology and anything else you can think of in the most complete way yet.”
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