Fri
Feb 27 2009
04:33 pm
By: StaceyDiamond

On the subject of media shakeups, for years I've read the Handlebars magazine, that I think Randy Gracy and Bruce Hartmann at the KNS started together around 05. Bikes scare me, I just like bike fests and biker bars and enjoyed the pictures. Now I see Gracy is gone and the Metro Pulse staff is putting out the magazine with more articles, but a different style. Judging from the letters people are either outraged or they love it now. The articles are probably better now, but I really liked how Gracy seemed so personally involved in the magazine and I wonder what happened there. I assume its all about cost like the other staffers being let go.

Concerned Motorcyclist's picture

Gracy was the only staffer,

Gracy was the only staffer, basically. He was pulling images off the web and putting them on the cover with no related content inside. A lot of the bike night photos were of him. There were several pieces in the old version that were attributed to the "Mag Man" that seemed to be press releases and not written by him at all (too well written).

I like the new Handlebars a lot better.

StaceyDiamond's picture

bike nights

One thing that was humorous is that me and a co-worker were trying to figure out why a certain woman was always in every bike night pic-then we figured out it was Gracy's wife.

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