Arrivée est arrivé!

[bhoot]

That doesn't sound good, but hopefully it is an isolated case. Please email me membership@audax.uk ideally with a photo of the offending pages and I will a) send a replacement copy if you would like one and b) tell the printer.  If anyone else has the same problem please do likewise!

[bhoot]

Got my copy on Tuesday . . .  and they've reintroduced the ink smell at the printers . . . . . . . it really is awful so my copy has been banished to the garage by Mrs robgul.

I have a lot of copies in the house and haven't noticed an odd odour. Normally I have got a good sense of smell........
Goes off to sniff box full of magazines.....

[FifeingEejit]

Just had a sniff of mine, nothing particularly outstanding about the smell over my usual blood and snotters baseline

[Lightning Phil]

Mine doesn’t smell of printing chemicals

[Cudzoziemiec]

I have noticed that (really rather unpleasant) smell in previous issues but not this one.

[quixoticgeek]

An envelope has arrived. Haven't opened it yet tho.

J

[Peter]

Got my copy on Tuesday . . .  and they've reintroduced the ink smell at the printers . . . . . . . it really is awful so my copy has been banished to the garage by Mrs robgul.

Same here.  I suspect people who don't notice anything untoward have something wrong with their olfactory system.

I'm enjoying the content, though.  Especially the mild bragging (joke, maybe?) about Cross Of Greet having a "gentle kicker" at the top - not from the north, it doesn't!

[John Stonebridge]

I didnt notice anything untoward with the smell of my copy. 

On the back of this thread I went and sought it out again and had a good sniff.  "Noticeable but not overpowering" I'd say.

In the act of proactively sniffing a magazine I was reminded of a disciplinary case I was involved in many years ago at work. 

Part of the duties of a an individual employed as a car park attendant was to park the staff cars in a tiny Edinburgh city centre car park - some expertise was needed to ensure that the maximum number of cars could fit in to the very small city centre car park. 

In the course of his duties he had developed a penchant for smelling the seats of cars dropped off by women workers. 

His line manager wanted him dismissed for gross misconduct (matters were made more complicated as his wife was one of the aforementioned female workers) and  the individual himself saw no wrong in his conduct.

I concluded that a written warning was sufficient.

Can't please everybody

   

[Peter]

Even though I park my Audax mags. as tidily as possible, I do not consciously sniff them.  They just go for me!

[He’s off again]

Cant quite believe I’ve just picked up my magazine and given it a good sniff😂😂😂

The wife and kids are all looking at me like there’s something wrong with me!

Anyway I couldn’t smell anything unusual but did reflect that I like that it’s printed on a nice substantial paper rather than something resembling tissue paper.

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

You can't judge a mag by the smell of its cover.

[Ian H]

The smell might be from copies first off the press where the ink hadn't fully dried or cured before packing.

[robgul]

The smell might be from copies first off the press where the ink hadn't fully dried or cured before packing.

. .  as a former printer (some while ago) the printed sheets are very probably UV-cured/dried as they leave the press cylinders into the machine's delivery stack - the sheets would have then been through a folding machine before reaching the stitch & trim line. 

[sparklyfish]

Regarding the speeding in Ashdon on the Tourdax ride report - I wonder if this is what was being referred to:



It's in the Ashdon village museum, which is open on (some?) Sunday afternoons in the summer - CTC Cambridge sometimes visit for afternoon tea. The sign is definitely due a comeback!

[Ribena75]

Any idea when the online version of the latest issue will be published? I want to link to it from our cycling club email newsletter as one of our members is featured. No pressure!! 

[mr ben]

I sniffed my centrefold, no complaints about either!