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.
Not sure about other forces but WMP only ask for 1 minute each side. I had to double check recently as one of the officers I hear from regularly...
I switched to SPD pedals and Lake MX242 shoes on my road bike about two years ago and never looked back. I do wish the shoes had less aggressive...
I agree with him....
Hi I know seat tube isn't important for most but my seat height to rail is 850mm so realistically I can't have a seat tube less than 56cm roughly...
So, he should not have been allowed a licence in the first place, then.
You could paint it in luminous orange and that will still happen.
Nobody "forced" Stages into bankruptcy. They bankrupted themselves. Giant are not villains for expecting payment for services and products...
No approval implied, and indeed I thought it was a bit daft at the time. I can certainly see the case for prioritising and maybe offering discounts...
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Lol....