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.
Holy crap at that shirt! My eyeballs are bleeding AND I'm going to have nightmares!
Yeah, /that/ bike didn't look expensive, but if it was me the cop came up to wanting to commandeer my bike, I'd be quite reluctant now having seen...
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We are talking about a village that is less than 1km long. Slowing down to a reasonable village speed (20mph) from an illegal 70mph would cost...
25mph cruise speed? Sounds like Nigel's celebrated courtesy and politeness finally reached breaking point...
Have you tried the local press? They love a good 'police not doing their job' story. May just kick them into action.
So the appealing feature of this, being able to swap the setup from a road bike one day to a gravel bike the next involves taking it to a dealer?...
Fantastic that someone just thought of a new app that communicates to a group of people at the same time, as part of a private discussion group....