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 is what the irish Rules of the Road (their Highway Code) says....
You've obviously never ridden in a velodrome!
In 2015, that awful safety record came into focus when Colin Wing from the London Cycling Campaign questioned whether the bridge’s junctions could...
It's the shadowy folk, the men in grey suits, Dr no who really control the site!
I think your view may be skewed on this one... the article does not come across as stating STRAW are anti-bike at all. Well, not to me anyway....
But they haven't though, have they? UK roads and streets are some of the safest, statistically....
Looking at the shaddows, I feel the Sun must have been in the car drivers eyes.....
It's a surprising approach by the rozzers, simply closing the case...
Not a car or a building - an unusual entry for "vehicle swimming trip" this, maybe an example of groyne strain?...
Decathlon have a range of cycling gilets starting from £7.99 that meet the same standard as it's a requirement for riding at night in France (hence...