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. 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.
As a bike courier I had a left hand turning car cross my path while I was roaring on a call. As I flipped endover in the air I felt my bag, a full...
Yep Times Square is more Piccadilly Circus as a comparison. They mean 5th Avenue imo, though Regents St would argue they're already that equivalent...
Sorry old chap, my two "best" bikes (S-Works Venge and S-Works Roubaix Team) are clearly not good enough as neither have 9250 groups. It seems like...
Well, there's the aqueduc... er, no... Sanitatio... hmm... Roads - that's it - what about the roads?
Was expecting more appreciation for this comment; a different choice of "classics" now?
Haha what a joke. The so called protesters was a small group of mainly elderly women, one was 96 and 1 was disabled, who spent about an hour...
If there wasn't a bike attached to it I'm not sure I'd realise what it was.
In the interests of accuracy, you're allowed to be in the EU/Schengen for 90 days in 180, not necessarily to work there. For that, a suitable...
I enjoyed it a few years back but now stupidly expensive and unjustifiable when money is tight, as it is for many now. So not surprising they can...
Good to know, Matthew. Thnku. If I get 17 years out of these Fulcrum wheels I shall be a very happy octogenarian!!! 😂🥳 If I get 10 years out of...