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.
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Did Per Edstrom set up a helmet cam then?
I Must say I do Love my Ed Merckx old cold steel & The Mountain Goat Wiskeytown but me thinks that is goin some twood be rough on a frosty winter evening
... And people are dying in Syria and that hasn't been considered by Road.CC at all. Shallow bastards.
It says something significant about wha this site has become that this 'story' is covered while the cyclist in Thanet who killed a pedestrian who was crossing the road gets ignored. Balance required.
So thats where Stan's get their tyre gunk!
What gets me most is that it isn't even a very pretty bike...
What is the world of cycling coming to!! The sound of a puncture apparently!!http://road.cc/sites/all/modules/smileys/packs/Yahoo!/grin.gif
Someone needs to point out that it is not the type of rubber you're meant to be slipping over for safe sex. It has made me laugh though
If w*nking over something is considered the same as shagging it, guess I can boast about having had all three of the GB Olympic Women's Team Pursuit team!
An image which fails to enrich life, perhaps....
"Having sex with a bike"
It's an inanimate** object, therefore, is he not just sh**ging it?
**Yeah, yeah, I know...not all of the time, but when it's left to its own devices it is.
so in Scotland you can't even have it off with your own bike? Bit harsh.
Words fail me
I'm jealous, I want a kick stand
Brings a new meaning to a lube and air check.
SWEDEN HAS CRIME??
There's a joke in this story somewhere which includes the words Shimano, fishing and tackle. I'm only sorry that I can't think of it myself !
Well thats put me off my lunch