Welcome to the New Motorcyclist Magazine

We would like to welcome you to the new Motorcyclist magazine. If you're a print subscriber, the March/April issue will arrive in your mailbox any day now. Digital subscribers will have access via Zinio and Amazon Kindle on February 18th and on iTunes February 20th. If you're looking to pick the magazine up on newsstands, it'll be on display starting February 28th, but you'll have to look closely to spot it.

That's because you're not likely to recognize the new Motorcyclist, not immediately anyway. The logo, cover image, and cover treatment are entirely different from anything we've done before. Inside, the art is bigger and brighter, with a composition style not yet seen in a mainstream motorcycle magazine. The new Motorcyclist is also made using larger, heavier paper, and it's some 20 pages thicker than the December/January issue.

Inside, you'll find new columns and departments, massive feature stories, plus a new take on plenty of stuff that we've been doing for decades. We didn't change things just for the sake of change. The goal with this redesign was to make the magazine a richer, more entertaining and engaging publication. We want Motorcyclist to enhance your motorcycling experience by bringing you deeper insights, exposing you to new and interesting niches of the industry, and introducing you to the machines, people, products, and places that make motorcycling such an important part of our lives.

The staff here at Motorcyclist lives and breathe bikes, and we scoured the globe to bring you the most interesting motorcycle stories we could find. Ever wonder how an ice-racing tire is built? Yeah, us too, so we found out. Want to know what's on the mind of the most powerful man in international roadracing? That interview is in the March/April issue. Curious how to install a headset in your helmet? We'll show you.

Then, there's the more personal stuff that we hope you represent with and are intrigued by. The original 1981 BMW R80 G/S was the first full-size streetbike Executive Editor Zack Courts ever rode, and it's still at the front of his dad's garage. The story of how it came to be is in this magazine. We also don't think the scary parts of motorcycling should be swept under the rug—so Executive Editor Ari Henning tells his story of getting rear-ended by an SUV in traffic so that others can learn from his accident, and hopefully avoid a similar scenario.

We think what you find inside the new magazine displays the heritage, depth, and enthusiasm on which Motorcyclist magazine has been built and existed for the past 105 years. We've made this magazine for you, and we hope you like it. We also hope you'll tell us what you think of it. Feel free to leave a comment below, or send an email off to mcmail@bonniercorp.com.