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.
Tiz what it is…
Terrible story and genuine sympathy for the lady, and I realise this could easily look like victim blaming, but I'm 6 foot tall, male and built...
I really wasn't convinced by the inferences in this particular study. I'm certainly convinced by others, but this one seems to miss the most...
Lost his licence for dui, again?...
Welcome to Car Crashes into Building.
You need to watch cyclocross. Maximum 1 hour of racing. Awesome edge of the seat stuff (especially when MVP isn't riding).
Cases of hung, drawn and caught? Or if not in favour of the rules, hung, drawn and court erred?
I think that's fair. Just noting that as you've written that you can see that it's incredibly hard to get away from any narrative of "we need at...
Norwich cycling said it doesn't cut through and uses an exsiting path parallel with the allotment border....
The quote from her mother is so sad. No family should have to go through that.