Arriving at road.cc in 2017 via 220 Triathlon Magazine, Jack dipped his toe in most jobs on the site and over at eBikeTips before being named the new editor of road.cc in 2020, much to his surprise. His cycling life began during his students days, when he cobbled together a few hundred quid off the back of a hard winter selling hats (long story) and bought his first road bike - a Trek 1.1 that was quickly relegated to winter steed, before it was sadly pinched a few years later. Creatively replacing it with a Trek 1.2, Jack mostly rides this bike around local cycle paths nowadays, but when he wants to get the racer out and be competitive his preferred events are time trials, sportives, triathlons and pogo sticking - the latter being another long story.
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Hats off to Ste Burke.
Well done Ste Burke.
A fine tale.
You sir are a true gentleman.
The reactions to these reports puzzle me. I mean, Peleton’s raison d’être is stationary cycling which they ensure by parking in bike lanes, LNER is the short form of Let’s Not Encourage Riders, and why is it considered extraordinary to ride Ordinary bicycles?
The handcyclist is no surprise either - I bought a Catrike recumbent off a guy who was legally blind and had loss of function from a stroke. He used it for mountain biking. They’re not disabled, just differently able.
Ste Burke (?) is another person who should be nominated for a road.cc "Friend of Cyclists" award.