Bike is the perfect magazine to me. Beautiful photography, great trail stories, nice layout, all in all its the perfect mag to go thru again and again before bed. I keep it on the night table. ASK CHOPPER column sucks though.
Decline is difficult to look at but has some content if you can look at it long enough to see thru the layers of blue or pink print on top of color photos. Caption #s are nearly impossible to read and they present riders as stars, not regular people like most of the other magazines do. I keep this magazine on the table by the tv, good to pick up once in a while, goes good with a beer.
Dirt Rag...I really want to like it but it never satisfies. Always feels like old news and while I am a fan of the grassroots thing, this feels like a zine dressed in glossy paper. The world may not be ready for "bike fiction".
I rarely pick it up but will admit to reading it at the news stand while waiting for a train.
MTBA...wide coverage of all kinds of stuff but ends up feeling like a catalog sometimes with that same guy putting the same expensive bikes thru the paces in every picture of every issue (is he actually a manikin?) I keep this one in the bathroom, if I pick it up.