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Point to Point Cycling News

UPDATE: I should have been paying more attention to the forums at STLBiking.com. Here's what Scott Rendall, the publisher of Point to Point Cycling News recently posted:

Hey y'all. Despite my best efforts, Point to Point is on an indefinate hiatus. As a young guy with no savings to speak of, its become impossible for me to put out another issue without reaching a level of debt that seems very unwise. I'm quite dissapointed, as I was really looking forward to pursuing and improving the magazine through a full season next year, and I am sure that more advertising avenues would have opened up during the spring and summer. Perhaps I should have squirrled away a bit of money ahead of time, but I was really eager to get started with a project that I had been considering for some time. Thanks to everyone who has advertised, bought a subscription, or offered words of encouragement the last several months. Also many thanks to the people who have contributed to Point to Point.

I hope to not abandon this project entirely. I think I will continue to use the website to cover some of the same things that the magazine covered, and I will also hopefully be contributing to some other regional print publications. Perhaps I'll be able to relaunch PTP at some point in the future, I hope so, its an idea that has worked in some other parts of the country.

FYI, if I don't start publishing again in the near future, subscribers will have part of their money refunded.

In the meantime, since I am basically unemployed at this point, I'd be open to any suggestions or offers anyone might have.

Cheers,

Scott Rendall

Thanks to fellow Belleville Area Bicycling and Eating Society member Glen Peterson for filling me in on the details. Below is my original post:

I've been meaning to mention one of the Midwest's newest cycling publications, Point to Point Cycling News, here for some time, but I wanted to see two or three issues of the publication before I put in my two cents worth.

Point to Point Cycling News is a free publication distributed in bike shops. It primarily focuses on the cycling scene in St. Louis, the rest of Missouri and Southern Illinois. If haven't been able to find a copy, you can download copies of Point to Point from its Web site.

From what I've seen so far, I have to give Publisher Scott Rendall and photographer Matt James a lot of credit. The November issue of Point to Point had articles about cyclocross, bicycle trails, bike commuters, mountain biking, diet and bicycle clothing as well as an interview with longtime bicycle racer John Lieswyn.

It's clear Scott and Matt care a lot about cycling and put a lot of work into the publication. Let's hope they have a lot of success.

Roger 0 comments 2:24 PM