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.
I think there are also hazard perception videos now. One of them was linked on here a while back, and lots of us scored badly because our cycling...
Wow! This could be the birth of the Unsubscribe movement! (Or is it de-platforming?)...
Don't fear the reaper! Fear the actuary.
Just checked the codes on the back of my licence (only passed a standard car test in 1988) and can drive a car up to 3500kg with any weight of...
Bar - humbug 😉
It certainly arrived several years too late... but it would have failed anyway, the lever feel and performance of the whole system was just awful....
I thought it amusing that there was a car parked in the opening when Google passed. Anyway, I refer you to the official list of Driver Free Passes ...
I made the mistake of attending the police station to report a crime, and they just told me to do it over the phone.
I need more training to prevent 48mph passes into oncoming traffic.
Saturation flow, that's what you need to refer to. Get the mayor to call TfL traffic engineers and ask what it means. He'll have his tiny mind...