just a quote from that site may be informative:
"I started vintage roadracing in 1995, and over the years began to realize how big and diverse the retro market was in this country. I also realized the handful of vintage publications out there weren’t addressing what I found most interesting – primarily the bikes and moto-culture of the late ’60s, ’70s and early ’80s, dirt and street. So an idea began to germinate, one that would eventually see the light of day in early 2008 with issue one of Motorcyclist Retro – an offshoot of Motorcyclist, the streetbike magazine I edited from 1993 to 2007.
Issue one sold well – more than 20,000 copies, in fact – and issues two (summer ’08) and three (fall ’08) were just as popular with newsstand buyers. By issue two the company had OKd subscription sales for ’09, and I figured we were on our way. But then the economy began to freefall, and the higher-ups at the company, then suffering through significant ad-revenue reductions with their larger automotive and truck magazines, decided to kill all new projects and concentrate on core business, so Retro was history. Fair enough.
After a few weeks of angst I decided to take the concept I’d formulated and nurtured for years private under a new name – Motorcycle Retro. Despite getting verbal approval from the old publisher to use a name that was very much like the old title (they weren’t going to put that in writing, of course), I began to feel as I set up the new business that there could be repercussions later on – and getting into a tussle in court with a large corporation wasn’t something I needed or wanted. So after much thought we’ve changed the name to Moto Retro Illustrated so we can get on with the business of building a great retro magazine. Readers tell me they don’t really care what the magazine is called, just that it offers the coverage I mentioned above. And that’s what we’re gonna do."
