Bicycling Reviews

Bicycling Reviews

Published by on 2025-01-22

🏷️ About: Bicycling inspires cyclists with authoritative recommendations on the latest bikes and gear, the best advice on getting fitter and stronger, and guides to ride the most beautiful roads and trails. Bicycling gives experienced racers and beginning cyclists the practical tips to enjoy the ride of their lives.


       


Overall Customer Experience 😎


🤬 Negative experience
67.1%

🫥 Neutral
18.1%

😎 Positive experience
14.7%

~ from Justuseapp.com NLP analysis of 989 combined software reviews.



Summary of Customer Reviews (Takeaways): 💎

- Informative and knowledgeable content on biking.

- Easier to use than previous e-mags.



Read 20 Customer Service Reviews 😠💢

4.4 out of 5
A complete disaster.

After purchasing a subscription through iTunes I tried to create an account. Bicycling keeps timing out on registration. Now I have to see if a human can help me. Thanks for nothing.
(Edit)
It turns out that the situation is far worse than I suspected. I learned by talking to customer service that the print magazine, digital magazine and website access are COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SUBSCRIPTIONS. So if I wanted a website subscription I would pay an additional $40 to access it ON TOP OF separate digital and print subscriptions. This actually blows my mind that someone could come up with such a Byzantine arrangement, probably Rube as in Goldberg. Just completely not acceptable.
You guys need to do better.

Worthless App

I’ve used Bicycling for several years. Enjoyed the functionality of earlier versions more than the current state. However, the current app does not work at all. The issues will not download, all I have are blank screens.

Subscription

Have a subscription but app won’t let me read for more than 5 minutes

App is a total waste of good money

Have had Bicycling for several years. For over a year now, I have had little or no luck in viewing my subscribed issues. Contacted developer and waited several weeks for a response. I deleted app and reinstalled app and it worked for another month. I haven’t tried to use it due to the frustration of not getting what I paid for and tried again this week with no luck.

Total piece of crap. Don’t waste your money. If I could give it negative stars it would be a -5

Quality testing needs.

Crashes. Duplicate content. Seriously disappointing what with a price increase.

Cannot Log In

Despite my subscription I cannot login into the digital version. Customer service/customer support has been useless in trying to remedy this.

Mag does not open! Constantly crashes. Boooo

Frustrating! The mag does not load... I’ve tried installing and re-installing... which I could switch to hard copy... money wasted... if I can give a negative star I would. Smh... step up...

Was just OK (when it worked)

I love this app magazine but Bicycling has been a complete bust. App hangs constantly, making it completely unusable. Zero customer support. Don’t waste your time. Buy the print version if you want the content.

Frustrating, clunky, and basically advertising you pay to view when it works.

Not a great app

Paid for app - but only allows me 5 mins to read!

Totally frustrated. How come Bicycling tells me I have only five minutes to read, and then have to pay 5.99 to see more?? I paid 15 bucks already. Now when I go to the existing users box to log in, it says it doesn’t recognise my email or zip code...what’s going on here? I was avoiding buying a paper subscription, but if this doesn’t resolve itself I’m going cancel Bicycling. I had high hopes for this one....

From bad to worse...

The worst magazine interface ever. Every other magazine uses its cover page as the “click on me” button for opening the issue. Not this app. They don’t even show the issue date. It’s impossible to go back to a specific issue except by trial and error.

You should let ZINIO publish your magazine.

Dismal app

Weak app, try to download for offline reading, nothing happens. Kill Bicycling and retry, it downloads. Try to read the magazine, pages won’t turn. Sigh...

Content is great- App is clumsy

Obviously- the writing and content is great. But this app needs an updated app that features content like a website. This is literally just a digital edition of the magazine.

How do they mess up such a simple thing?

Login process incredibly confusing for subscribers. Doesn’t seem to show new issues. Other than that, great. That is it can display pages. Yeah.

Great Magazine

I love this magazine I got a 3 year subscription.

Keeps crashing

Can’t restore purchases

Fantastic !

Without a doubt the best magazine on Biking - informative, knowledgeable, on time and in time to keep one abreast of the things every bicyclist needs to know or be aware of what’s going on in the sport or industry.
Thank you !!

Easy to use, but missing some features

Much easier to use than previous e-mags, however, I wish I could bookmark my place so I didn’t have to search for where I left off every time I open Bicycling .

Very Happy with Digital Edition

I've been a long time subscriber to Runner's World and like others who have posted, I wish I had access to that digital subscription included with the price of my print subscription. I'd even be happy to just transition my print subscription to digital. That being said, I hadn't been a subscriber of this app and decided to simply try the digital edition. Although I don't recall it being stated, I have been receiving the print editions as well. Personally I think the digital version is pretty awesome. This isn't just a PDF version of the print copy. Unlike in a print version where you need to jump to the back of the magazine to finish an article, you can simply scroll down. There are also cool interactive features and I like how the digital version provides more content (such as additional bike reviews) compared to the print version. I hope this app keeps up the great work with the digital edition.

I love it!

Enjoy the articles and advice.



Is Bicycling Safe? 🙏

No. Bicycling does not seem very safe to us. This is based on our NLP (Natural language processing) analysis of over 989 User Reviews sourced from the Appstore and the appstore cumulative rating of 4.4/5 . Justuseapp Safety Score for Bicycling Is 18.0/100.

Safety Analysis

74.8% of users say app is Safe 👍
74.8%

13.1% of users have Some Concerns ⚠️
13.1%

12.1% of users say app is Risky 🚨
12.1%


Is Bicycling Legit? 💯

No. Bicycling does not seem legit based on our analysis. This conclusion was arrived at by running over 989 Bicycling User Reviews through our NLP machine learning process to determine if users believe the app is legitimate or not. Based on this, Justuseapp Legitimacy Score for Bicycling Is 40.1/100..

🔏 Privacy & Data Safety

Bicycling collected the following data from you:

  • Data Linked to You:
    • Location
    • Contact Info
    • User Content
    • Identifiers
    • Usage Data
  • Data Not Linked to You:
    • User Content
    • Search History
    • Diagnostics

Payments 💸

**Pricing data is based on average subscription prices reported by Justuseapp.com users..

Pricing Plans Amount (USD)
Bicycling 1 Year Subscription $19.99
Bicycling 1 Month Subscription $1.99
April 2012 $6.99
April 2013 $6.99
May 2012 $6.99
Bicycling Tour De France Photo Guide $1.99
Bicycling Jan / Feb 2012 $6.99
Jan/Feb 2013 $6.99
March 2013 $6.99
April 2014 $6.99


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Features

• Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable.

Bicycling inspires cyclists with authoritative recommendations on the latest bikes and gear, the best advice on getting fitter and stronger, and guides to ride the most beautiful roads and trails.

• Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal.

Using a simple two-finger tap, actual images of the content itself are “clipped” and can be sent directly to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, or Pinterest, or via email or saved to your photo roll.

• Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period.

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