Motorcycle Explorer Jan 2017 Issue 15 | Page 3
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EDITOR
It's Not About the Money
MEM Runs as an
Honesty bar Hi Riders,
I spoke last issue about the anti-snob or to be more clear
the elite poor and how much less they spent than you on
the same journey... and then wrote a book about it. Good
for them.
If you feel the work
here is worth £1
and a minute of
your time you'll
help keep us
running. But this is not to say in any way that everyone that wrote a
book is a knob! Far from it as I know for a fact that people
on the author circuit make less than minimum wage when
you count the hours they put into their work. Indeed many
an author gives their work for free to this very magazine
and despite any myths (started by me and the marketing
dept) there is not a huge Harry Potter like rush at Amazon
after MEM comes out for author’s books.
I still work a full time job while doing the magazine and I
doubt I will be handing in a resignation or taking a dump
on the boss’s desk any time soon.
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We motorcycle travellers no matter how far or how remote
travelled share something very special. No one gives a shit
about any of us. No one is signing a Rossi like contract and
there maybe some that get a Honda badge to sew on their
jacket and the use of a bike but that’s about as far as it
gets guys. Ask anyone who is not into motorbikes who
Valantino Rossi is and then ask about your favourite
speaker at an Horizons event and you may as well of asked
them to prove String theory using cheese string. Chaz
Boorman outside of this niche may get a quizzical reply of
“isn’t he the guy that did a ride with the Scottish fella who
played Obi Wan Kenobi?”
So when I see arguments about what a bike costs or the
brand they picked it's stupidity or a marketing tactic! We
are too small for that crap and could do with just nodding
with a smile and helping eachother do what we do.
I doubt I’ll be having a meeting with Veronica Bauer ever
and I’m damn sure Mortons Media have never even heard
of me... and that’s just fine by me. I don’t do this for them; I
do this for the readers. As long as you enjoy it then MEM
will be here.
Enjoy issue 15
James
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