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 all very disappointing and yes processes aren't working how they should ... but unless you're moving to somewhere that has mass cycling or...
Most *people* aren't cycling *any* trips, true. I *think* the majority of cycling in the UK is "recreational" but I'm far from certain that "most...
You are correct, but pointing it out is just median.
Further reading here:...
The biggest advantage of commuting by bike, is it's just much more fun (well, when a dodgy driver isn't trying to run you off the road)....
Cyclist/taxi/fire engine: why didn't the taxi driver – and the cyclist – pull into the parking spaces that we see unoccupied on the left? That...
Millions of untaxed cars on the road, why should they be given priority?
This twat is not a cyclist any more than pedestrians are hikers....
More pedantry, I'm afraid, but you don't need ANPR when the number plate is there in front of you, stationary among all the wreckage.
By the looks of it, the plans concern the southern half of the Clifford Bridge Road for which half of the trees are replanted saplings anyway. ...