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.
There's a lot about, and once you're "woke" or sensitised to it it's hard not to see it. However I think it's essentially a category difference if...
*Pedantry* although not comparing anyone / anything to Hitler / Nazis - wasn't that it?
Good point. Although are they organised? Also fruitcakes have something to be said for them, even if they're a bit nutty.
As a summary - hopefully we can do both eg. small but more achievable things that are slightly helpful for the cyclists of today....
Great film, that.
I'm really not sure. It was always a road I used on the bike because it is a fair bit quieter than the alternatives. There is often poor driving in...
Bonus video, and a police driver: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98yr0z9r1ro
I think you intended this link: https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/24919319.calls-made-widen-busy-didcot-......
The police down here in Devon just keep it simple, no updates whatsoever about submitted footage. It does leave me wondering if I should bother or...
Nothing is free in the world of business, you'll be paying for it somehow.