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.
These sort of studies should be done in advance of products being allowed to be sold. Instead folk are used as laboratory animals (but this is...
Are they at the "are we the baddies?" stage yet?
Your regular reminder that footways, cycle lanes/paths and verges are still parts of "the road". It's just that those parts are not carriageway and...
About 4 metres?...
Hahaha, that would be my kinda party!
Really they ought build a multi-storey carpark - between Hangingroyd Lane and Valley Road - it would need to be at least three storeys tall and...
Minehead Town Council warns toilet block to be closed again for safety issue work...
I have. Put him in hospital....
Fair point, I forgot where this started. My suggestion that untaxed cars you see are unmarked police cars was tongue in cheek; clearly they're not....
There's a growing market of super compact chain sets/cassette combos out there now. More folk are realising there's a lot of 'aspirational' gears...