According to the latest official sales figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulation –a paid-for sales counting service – Cycling Plus and Cycle Sport have added to their readership base. MBUK's sales continue to drop year-on-year. MBR's sales are relatively static and Cycling Weekly has lost another few hundred readers per month.

Cycling Plus and Cycle Sport are winners in latest ABCs

The ABC results below are for the period 1st January 2004 to 31st December 2004, with the 2001, 2002 and 2003 figures also being Jan-Dec. The circulation figures are averaged out over the year.

CYCLING PLUS (Future Publishing)

2004: 25,980

2003: 23 338

2002: 21 839

2001: 18 618

MBUK (Future Publishing)

2004: 45 772

2003: 49 287

2002: 50 914

2001: 57 663

MOUNTAIN BIKE RIDER (IPC)

2004: 37 333

2003: 37 306

2002: 36 765

2001: 40 200

CYCLE SPORT (IPC)

2004: 21,447

2003: 20 270

2002: 20 027

2001: 20 667

CYCLING WEEKLY (IPC)

2004: 26,429

2003: 27 034

2002: 28 204

2001: 30 657

The other cycle titles provide a publishers’ statement rather than an ABC audit. See the links below for the reasons given for this policy.

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