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 pushing 50, he's riding road and gravel bikes most days for fun and fitness rather than training for competitions.
Cheers man, didn't take it as criticism, no worries. I think it was fortunate some people got a little bit of warning and from the sounds of it the...
The trouble is that I suspect that it only applies if you fall in the catchment area. If you choose a school out of catchment I don't think it...
Carrying heavy sacks with camping kit up and down mountains is one good way to do it, or even just going up and down mountains- the pounding you...
Some people really do have too much spare time.
So the helmet law worked then?
They ban lots of vehicles normally allowed on normal roads, it is not just cyclists.
May be I'm missing something, but you need an XDR free hub to run SRAM 12 speed not a Fulcrum/Campagnolo one. I have a set from Reynolds and a set...
Just prosecuting for the assault with a 'metal pole' which resulted in significant injuries would be an improvement on the usual mitigation because...
Seems like a method-of-transport-aggravated-assault to me....
It's all well and good noting the depth, external width, and what size tyres you were using but what's the internal width of the rim?