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 over 50, he's riding road and gravel bikes most days for fun and fitness rather than training for competitions.
Alternatively a hydraulic damper could slow the door opening speed to give approacing vehicles inc. cyclists the time to slow or pull out of the...
Exactly. Road riding is a white male dominated sport so the BCN are an advocacy group to try and change that. There are a number of barriers (and a...
I'm in the same sort of area as you, and that does seem to be true. I suspect the split might be more due to nationality/immigration status than...
And that is why you don't see recumbents in these events - the early designs put the top of your socks outside the height limits!
Bonus info - not that this changes "but this is what I see on my journeys" or "it feels much worse!":...
Good in principle but not much help when most of the crashes we read about are in urban areas, and surprisingly often on residential streets.
In our house we have a saying when it comes to industry pricing, simply '...because cycling innit?' No other justification required.
Having the UAE host COP28 is a bit like having [insert any 70s BBC DJ here] babysit your kids.
The Cycle Racing on Highways Regulations,1960...
@road.cc you could do yourselves a favour and reach out to Alan Parfitt and offer him some freelance commission based sales work. Could be a win...