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.
From The Guardian
Potential left hook rather than a close pass, I would have said. It was dumb anyway round, as you say. Question for me is whether Jason was...
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but he wasn't at the roadside, they had moved him, and then buried him in a pit that was used for disposing of animal carcasses so no dog would...
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Well hang on. That's not evidence of anything other than the reach of the Big Infra conspiracy and how they've co-opted the blue-pilled sheeple. Or...
Maybe 'Gil MacLeod' is just his nom d'internet.
Response from the BBC regarding its coverage of the tragedy of the girls hit by a driver on a sports pitch in Kendal, with one dying:...
City junction near the Boundary labelled dangerous by locals...
That's wild. If I were racing at trek, I would actually prefer the old madone with the new bottles, faster is better😅