Bike User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience61.4% of reviews
Neutral1.8% of reviews
Negative experience36.8% of reviews

~ Based on 114 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Bike Safe?

Bike: Tips, tests & reviews appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Bike is 92/100.

This assessment is based on 218 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

94.5% of ratings point to a safe experience
0.5% of ratings suggest some concerns
5.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 218 App Store ratings for Bike.

Is Bike Legit?

Bike: Tips, tests & reviews appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Bike is 85/100.

Based on 85 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Great App - Some UI issues

Loving the app so far, nicely laid out and easy to flick through the mags in the archive too.

Having the “Done” button on the Message Centre be white on a light grey background is annoying though. Wasn’t immediately apparent and I had to close out of the app until the 4th or 5th time using the app as I couldn’t even see them. They’re still a pain to see even now I know they’re there!

Other than this, I’d highly recommend!!
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Rubbish

Why are Bauer so bad? They don’t contact you in response to a query. Take your money and that’s it.

Response from developer

Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. We’re truly sorry to hear that your experience with our service didn’t meet your expectations. We’d appreciate the opportunity to understand what went wrong and to make things right. Please feel free to reach out to us again. • For technical issues, please email appsupport_uk@bauermedia.com • For subscription questions, please contact bauer@subscription.co.uk We’re here to help and would appreciate the opportunity to make this right.

Disappointed-still using it

Only using it when flying.
Slow download speeds.
Patchy quality of document once loaded.
App is barely maintained.

Unable to login to app

Try to login whilst in the app, brings up a become a member page, click on login and it takes you away from the app to the website.

Disappointing at best

I love Bike magazine but unfortunately the electronic version is like a beta trial from the dark ages. The editing is amateurish, the photos are terrible quality, often a random page won’t load and navigating is hardly intuitive. But the worst aspect of all it once downloaded, there is no continuity as to whether it will stay downloaded. Being on an long flight with a new ‘Bike’ was always something to be excited about; with this version you’ll never know whether you can even open the copy once offline - extremely frustrating! There are so many high quality ‘reader’ softwares out there I honestly don’t know why this has its own format. It’s a fail from me!
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laggy and freezes all the time

Takes ages to open , not very intuitive to use

Search is now very limited

I get both the paper and digital versions. I like to read the paper version but the digital version used to allow searching across every edition that you have access to. So if say a friend buys a ZZR1400 you could search back and read whatever bike had published mentioning ZZR1400 that you had paid for going back years. This is the only reason I get the digital version and now you can only search back a handful of editions. I did flag this up last month and had a very nice reply saying “that it is it is definitely in the backlog to refine in the future”. It used to work, now it doesn’t and I’m still paying for it. Funny kinda progress! Is anyone else cross about this?
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Why can’t I buy a single issue?

The new app is either subscribe for months, or nothing. I’ve read Bike magazine for over 20 years, but you’ve lost me as an online customer.

App doesn’t work consistently, very frustrating!

I have raised my issues with the customer service team but they are slow to respond .

The problems are:
- the digital view problem means that it doesn’t always fully load correctly ( leaving many blank pages) therefore I can’t read all the content ( I don’t understand why it doesn’t fully download to my device so I can access from memory as opposed to trying to reload from the website each time I access it?)
- the magazine view (there are 2 ways to view Bike via the app either digital or magazine view) problem is that some issues the magazine just won’t load up.
These problems have only arisen since the new app that gives a digital view was launched.
I can only assume they haven’t tested comprehensively prior to launching, very annoying!!!

I also have yearly problems with my account that I have to raise with customer support and persist with until resolved. All problems have been proven to be with the Bike magazine app / system and nothing to do with my device or usage.
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Response from developer

Hi Sin59, thank you for taking the time to leave your feedback. We are really sorry that you have such problems with the app. Our customer support has been very busy lately, so I can only ask you to be patient. We really try to help our customers, but sometimes it takes some time to answer everyone. Kind regards

Magazine view

Since updating the app, i can no longer find the option to switch between digital media view and Magazine view. Frustrating !!

Response from developer

Hi! Thank you for your feedback! We're very sorry for any problems that occured. Our customer support would be happy to help you. To contact us you may use the contact formular in the app or just send an email to: appsupport_uk@bauermedia.com Kind regards

No more buying just one issue?

No fan of the subscription thing…

Don’t update to latest version

The app was working great until this new update. Once you update the app logs you out of your account (so you cannot access any of the issues you have already purchased or download any new ones). And when you attempt to log back in it launches Safari, but Safari won’t load the log in page as there are too many redirects. This is a very foreseeable error on an iOS app. Oh, and customer support is awful (as usual with a Bauer product).
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Pathetic. Barely more than a scanned in pdf

Great magazine, terrible app
Issues take ages to download or download fails
Pages in app look scanned in, so you can see photos that cross the fold in a magazine don't line up in the app
Can expand articles to make them easier to read- but then the formatting is a mess, with pictures not lining up with text
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Response from developer

Hi! Thank you for your feedback! We're very sorry for any problems that occured. We'd be happy to answer any questions you have about the app at, appsupport_uk@bauermedia.com.

Great app

The app has been improved upon many times now, and it’s great. Especially the black and white view, much easier for reading

Response from developer

Hi DanorKev, thank you for your feedback. We are pleased about every postive rating. Kind regards.

Can’t access subscription

Having used the app in the past I took out a new sub for this magazine. Great magazines say I haven’t created an account although I’ve had an account for several years. Tried to create a new account which does not work. I’ve now asked great magazines to change sub to hard copy, the app is useless.

Login

Taken out a subscription for the electronic version of Bike magazine but still cannot login.

Generally excellent

I constantly switch to text-only view inadvertently. Too easy to have happen. Otherwise great.

Fails to load dynamic resources

Update Tuesday 4th Jan
All seems to be working again now, without need to delete the App and re-install a second time . I presume some one behind the scenes has fixed something
THANK YOU!
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Original review Sat 1/1/22
Great magazine and app was working fine. Downloaded the app update a few days ago and all was fine initially - I was able to download the latest Bike issue. But this eve I just end up with a blank screen, tried deleting and reloading the app but to no avail. App starts up ok but shortly after starting to “download dynamic resources” I get an error message and a suggestion to check internet connection which is fine. It looks like an issue at the server end ?or a glitch with the new app under certain conditions? Hoping this gets fixed soon
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Response from developer

Hi, thank you for leaving us your feedback plus updated feedback to it! It means a lot to us. We do test all of our updates thoroughly, but unfortunately, some technical glitches can always manage to sneak their way in. We can assure you that we do monitor the apps on a regular basis and try our best to have a glitch fixed as quickly as possible, so it is always best to wait on deleting and re-installing the app if you can. Our app support is available MO-FR at appsupport_uk@bauermedia.com in case something should come up in the future. Please do contact us there if needed. Kind regards

Not working here too

Just a white screen when I try to read the mag

Response from developer

Hi, thank you for reaching out to us here. We apologize for a bit of trouble after the app was updated and hope that all is well for you now. Please contact us at appsupport_uk@bauermedia.com or send us a message out of the feedback of the app if you still have problems so that we can help. Kind regards

Terrible App - Can’t access any of my magazines!!

I’ve just updated to the latest version of the ‘Bike” App and now it wont even open to the home page. I can’t see anything except a white screen on my iPad Pro.

The previous version was clunky at best, but this version is completely unworkable. I can’t access any of my downloaded magazines that i have bought and paid for.

Come on Bike!! It’s 2022 you can do better than this!!!!
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Response from developer

Hi, we are sorry to hear of the frustration you went through with the latest update of the app. We do test all updates thoroughly and try our best for them to go smoothly, but sometimes unforeseeable technical problems can occur and we try our best to have them fixed as quickly as possible. These have been cleared for the Bike app and it is working properly. If you are still having trouble with access, our app support is available MO-FR at appsupport_uk@bauermedia.com. We hope all is well now. Kind regards