John has been writing about bikes and cycling for over 30 years since discovering that people were mug enough to pay him for it rather than expecting him to do an honest day's work.
He was heavily involved in the mountain bike boom of the late 1980s as a racer, team manager and race promoter, and that led to writing for Mountain Biking UK magazine shortly after its inception. He got the gig by phoning up the editor and telling him the magazine was rubbish and he could do better. Rather than telling him to get lost, MBUK editor Tym Manley called John’s bluff and the rest is history.
Since then he has worked on MTB Pro magazine and was editor of Maximum Mountain Bike and Australian Mountain Bike magazines, before switching to the web in 2000 to work for CyclingNews.com. Along with road.cc founder Tony Farrelly, John was on the launch team for BikeRadar.com and subsequently became editor in chief of Future Publishing’s group of cycling magazines and websites, including Cycling Plus, MBUK, What Mountain Bike and Procycling.
John has also written for Cyclist magazine, edited the BikeMagic website and was founding editor of TotalWomensCycling.com before handing over to someone far more representative of the site's main audience.
He joined road.cc in 2013. He lives in Cambridge where the lack of hills is more than made up for by the headwinds.
You're right. Giving way to wating pedestrians is only a should :...
That's fair....
Planet X Tempest... just sayin! Never gets a mention but has consistently delivered great value titanium all purpose on/off road do it all bike/...
Worse than that, they have "singilarised" it (is the that the reverse of pluralise) to become PANT I though that was what dogs did
Had a set of these (original 2015/16 versions) in 25/28 on my 2016 Diverge. Fairly ok experience, found them a little heavy (coming from other...
Certainly a sign of challenging times in retail, sad for lasses to lose a good option. Agree their patterns were up to date and sharp. There's...
+ breaking the law (twice)...
Cookham Bridge - single lane, so lights at each end to make the drivers share nicely. Driver still decided he'd waited long enough on red and...
It's like the Fire Brigade running about confiscating night lights whilst ignoring burning buildings.
"Mob of decent, hard-working, otherwise law abiding motorists"