Bike App Reviews

Compared to other motorcycle related apps - I would get this one again any day. Just keep the advertisement classy and to a minimum and I am sticking with this one

So how exactly do I get the Black Friday sub deal? $17 for 12 months. I already have 8 months to go but want to extend by 12 more.

The articles are brilliant as always, but this app feels like a beta release. If an article has too many interactive features(which I like) the app crashes or worse my iPad will reset itself. Where are the the ads?!? I never thought I would miss them but there are none! At least Motorcylist magazine has them in their Zinio version. Finally, is there a proofreader for the app version of Bike magazine? For instance, in the June 2013 issue the table of contents lists a first ride report for the 2013 Aprilia Caponord, but the article is completely missing.

The Bike app is just about everything one could want from a magazine app. High image resolution, straightforward UI, and there's even a preview with each issue so you can browse before you buy. Don't bother trying to chase down issues of BIKE at bookstores anymore, save money and get issues faster with the app.

This app is done right. Beautiful pictures, excellent layout and of course the excellent content. Here in the States, Bike magazine can be hard to find at the bookstore, but now i can get it anytime. At a fair price too. Perfect app. Thanks Bike!

As a graphic designer, I anxiously await my print edition to arrive by air mail every month. But, the iPad edition is truly beautiful. A great example of what a digital magazine can be. I never thought I'd say it, but I prefer the digital edition. Well done!

I like the app. It takes great advantage of the ipad. All the mag content seems to be present, but in an interactive form. Wish more e-mags would follow suit.

I just downloaded the app to read my favorite Bike magazine, which I have read since issue #1, to find it is formatted in the hideous landscape only mode. I really hate this format as it goes against all my magazine reading instincts and it is clumsy and virtually unreadable. I will not read any magazine in this format - sorry Bike you will need to better to get my readership in the electronic format.

Overall a very good ipad app even if yes, it gets a little to 'swipey'. But for the number of options they provide they are obvious mad work fairly intuitively. Nice job and of course the content is great.

I read several periodicals on the iPad. Bike is one of the top two, the other being the New Yorker. Articles easy to navigate, special features abundant & easy to navigate. The extras load very quickly. Bike, as a publication about motorcycling is great, no matter the platform - a good bit more irreverent about the brands. Somewhat more adult in the writing than Cycle World, Motorcyclist, et als.

This is how magazines should be done on the iPad.

Bike used to be the gold standard. Crashed and burned around 2010. Coming back strong and getting better every year now. Still way too much coverage of Adventure bikes and sub 500cc models though. But while the content and writing are top notch, the app itself is a little irritating. Landscape only. Could we please have a portrait orientation too? Everybody else seems able to do it. Mike Armitage and Chris Northover are the twin gods of moto journalism - and Bike has one of them!

Great interactive videos, good photography, good writing, entertaining journalism. I do like British humor, though I'm a Yank. App makes it much easier than finding it around town. Best mag out there that I can leave laying around for my kids to find.

I like the writing and articles.

super mag with lots of great content. the app and presentation absolutely terrible. you are forced to read in landscape, the navigation is all over the place. you swipe one way to do one thing, swipe another way to see hidden content on a page. on other pages you swipe to scroll just a column. its all just a big mess. i really don't need to be forced to know all these special swipes just to read a magazine. keep it simple - i want to read, not play a shoot 'em up game.

If you love motorcycles you should be reading this magazine. Has the greatest range of information on motorcycling and the most informative. Always love seeing a new issue arrive.

The quality of the pictures and layout are just incredible. Well done! Now if the subscription price was a little more reasonable for those of us in the US.

One of the best if not the best motorcycle mag in the world. The new app with interactive stuff is all cool.. But it is TOO MUCH -PLEASE LIMIT YOUR ENTHUSIASM for swipe this way, tap here, scroll this box, swipe for sidebar, wait for this page another cool video loading.. PLEASE FOCUS ON CONTENT and side benefit would be smaller files.

The writing and pictures are as good as you will find anywhere, often better. There are nice extras, bits of video and such. However, navigation and selection is a mess, and landscape only viewing is a hassle.

Broken after iOS 8 update. Can't access at all. Please fix.

I have no patience now for simpleton PDF conversions of print magazines. If you can't see that the ipad and its imitators are the future of print and adapt to it then you should die off a slow death. These guys get it. The photography shines, the writing is fresh and the layout is ipad focused and non linear. Good stuff!

I can not comprehend any magazine ever being worth $47.99 for 12 issues. That is just ridiculous! Idk if this is an average price in Britain, but either way it is a total rip off!!! And the "previews" are only 4 pages, two of which are ads! Just aweful.

I love this magazine. Guys/gals, great job!