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.
Speed has nothing to do with it...
There are two objections to that, one is that whilst you can say that "no one should be bothered by it for a few seconds as I pass" more and more...
I agree! I'd keep the ban and remove powermeters as well, personally, though I'd keep radios for safety reasons.
That, and the idea that motorists keep below the 20mph limit stretches credulity...
not always if the card processing system glitches or the authentication keys arent accepted for whatever reason, or the system thinks its a fraud...
It looks great. My pockets probably aren't deep enough sadly.
As bizarre as it may sound, I'm convinced my wife's bicycle basket saved the woman from serious injury like a broken hip. The basket was very...
he frequently displays a total ignorance of the law which presumably made even the police glad to see him go...
Unlike Finish Line and other petrochemical lubes, it is plant-based and will degrade completely. I will continue to use the stock of Green Oil that...
They should be forced to have number plates so that the drivers could be held to account...