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.
"Folkestone Magistrates’ Court heard this week that Williams was following another motorist in front as he emerged from a roundabout onto the...
But of course that entire generation was wiped out because they weren't wearing a helmet.
It's only 999 if it's a threat to life or a crime in progress. Once the perp has driven off and there's no longer a threat, it's a 101 job.
Another I'd missed last month:...
Wow! This is a place I go to a few times a year, but it's right across the parking lot from the pub I go to weekly.
This administration has the opportunity missed by the previous one to join up the departments to address the fact that capable people just don't...
Bollard with a Claymore, perhaps?
I'd question how did the driver heard the swearing to make such a complaint....
Thankfully, there was a massive clue at the top of the article.
"Not really - use of the word 'accident' implies that an incident was unavoidable."...