Mat has been in cycling media since 1996, on titles including BikeRadar, Total Bike, Total Mountain Bike, What Mountain Bike and Mountain Biking UK, and he has been editor of 220 Triathlon and Cycling Plus. Mat has been road.cc technical editor for over a decade, testing bikes, fettling the latest kit, and trying out the most up-to-the-minute clothing. He has won his category in Ironman UK 70.3 and finished on the podium in both marathons he has run. Mat is a Cambridge graduate who did a post-grad in magazine journalism, and he is a winner of the Cycling Media Award for Specialist Online Writer. Now over 50, he's riding road and gravel bikes most days for fun and fitness rather than training for competitions.
Well Ghandi - sometimes it's just better to keep the bull in a field with a fence round, not in the playground. I'm all for barriers round the...
I suppose there may be some truth in this, however, one needs to remember that cyclists are generally practical people and unlikely to be unduly...
I also saw it as a comment on going with a lower charge in exchange for a guilty plea....
@ Backladder - Indoor velodromes are great fun, and a very good cardio workout....
although I live in Shropshire I do go to Birmingham now and again at the weekends. I've got to say the delivery riders are absolute maniacs, they...
The Southern Daily Echo has been running carmaggedon stories all week about gridlock in Southampton:...
Glad no assos jacket reviewed. Spent near £300 on one a few years ago - hit low hanging twig at low speed one day and it holed. Shell had less...
They've copied the original 3T Aeronova with its groove for the forearms to rest in and made it narrower. No bad thing, the Aeronova was a really...
Crud sprays forward from the front wheel and you ride into it. Most front mudguards don't project forward enough to stop this.
Clumsy movements are fine and can absolutely be excused - if you don't have your finger on a trigger!