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.
This all just makes me a bit sad. As others have far more eloquently put.. there are just so many other useful/meaningful things that the .gov...
But you see what we need is tougher laws for cyclists....
In the blog "There have been two nasty incidents in London involving cyclists in the last few weeks. On an *average single day* there are 20+ hit...
Why oh Why do we give these "celebrities" air time?....Just because they are famous it doesn't mean they know what they are talking about and here...
I'd take it to the local recycling centre aka the tip. you don't want to put it in household rubbish in case of fire.
30,000 is the figure for Killed or Seriously Injured. In 2022 there were 1,711 fatalities.
Top end bike costs have gone up significantly since covid and although there has been cost inflation if you look at the differential in bike prices...
Our rims don't loose tyres but here is a specifically designed tyre because our rims don't need these because they don't loose tyres - make it make...
we're clearly going to have to wait a few months for the real prices as opposed to rrp launch prices to become clear....not sure what my threshold...
I'm putting in another recommendation for Merseyrail, which covers Southport to Chester.