Mat has been in cycling media since 1996, on titles including BikeRadar, Total Bike, Total Mountain Bike, What Mountain Bike and Mountain Biking UK, and he has been editor of 220 Triathlon and Cycling Plus. Mat has been road.cc technical editor for over a decade, testing bikes, fettling the latest kit, and trying out the most up-to-the-minute clothing. We send him off around the world to get all the news from launches and shows too. He has won his category in Ironman UK 70.3 and finished on the podium in both marathons he has run. Mat is a Cambridge graduate who did a post-grad in magazine journalism, and he is a winner of the Cycling Media Award for Specialist Online Writer. Now over 50, he's riding road and gravel bikes most days for fun and fitness rather than training for competitions.
'The driver of this vehicle decided to pass a group of cyclists at excessive speed and far too closely.'...
it's also a specific offence under POFA2012
Maybe this one can be put down to "it's the culture"? Never been to Japan but I was in Korea for a little while - a society which has some...
Sorry can't be arsed to read what you've written there, I'm sure it's very interesting though, keep up the great work?
Rochdale is a deeply unpleasant town to cycle around, let alone walk. It's full of terraced streets chock full of parked cars. Massive 20th...
I've found from my unscientific survey of five sets of bibs and biblongs that some of the simplest pads are the best for me. So I've found a pair...
Bikehike is good, but for all my routes both cycling and walking I use Komoot which is pretty good.
Surely, that should be: They would have.
In Scotland they put you on probation for that. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7095134.stm
For a start, staggered bollards are recommended against in the National Guidelines - because a straight approach and path through is required....