Mat has been in cycling media since 1996, on titles including BikeRadar, Total Bike, Total Mountain Bike, What Mountain Bike and Mountain Biking UK, and he has been editor of 220 Triathlon and Cycling Plus. Mat has been road.cc technical editor for over a decade, testing bikes, fettling the latest kit, and trying out the most up-to-the-minute clothing. We send him off around the world to get all the news from launches and shows too. He has won his category in Ironman UK 70.3 and finished on the podium in both marathons he has run. Mat is a Cambridge graduate who did a post-grad in magazine journalism, and he is a winner of the Cycling Media Award for Specialist Online Writer. Now over 50, he's riding road and gravel bikes most days for fun and fitness rather than training for competitions.
In terms of the BTL comments, the racism seems so far to have trumped any anti-cycling ...
(Beware virtual safaris...) Hmm... if I wanted to get to the station there, what mode would I use? Is there one that it seems to be especially...
State of the roads round here, the only choice. So much flooding I got waterproof trousers and socks !!
Yeah, a separate coach park would make sense, but would it cause issues with loading up the coach after a match? I could imagine it taking longer...
bravely filming cyclists navigating a car dominated world
But this was a brand new bike. How could forks have abraded ? I've had CF forks for years and never had any issues or abrasion.
So I live in clevedon. On occasion I talk to people from places other than clevedon. None of them laugh at me for infrastructure changes. I...
Why are we having this discusion? It is just not going to happen, it is totally unworkable, we have talked about children, what about MTB riders,...
I built up the rim brake equivalent frameset with existing Ultegra drivetrain and Fulcrum Racing 3 wheels, just under 7.8kg with pedals so...
It's a Replica Pro from 2000/2001, not a Penta Pro which came in 2002 and which had slightly different rear stays and fork. The wheelset is from a...