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.
But the risk of death while cycling is the same as for walking for distance travelled. All depends on how you measure or perceive risk.
Thats not a defence (ironically). Everyone is paid to do their job. Some peoples job is to destroy the environment and ruin the future of billions...
This cyclist sounds like a total nutter... like incredibly derranged... like unbelievably unreasonable. ...
I don't know if it's just me but I find that in the gloomy conditions we seem to have endured for so much of this winter clipping in the low light...
Did you see the reg plate in person? Perhaps reading it out loud for the camera's mike to record!
He should come to Bristol, where they're more than happy to send cyclists on a "dismount for this hundred metres of footway" diversion because...
He'll get back to you in another 15 years.
I just don't think enough is being done to encourage cycling - poor infrastructure, daft cycle lanes (there are some good ones, but a lot of the...
Re Thomas Voeckler's 1.13 HM, at age 45....
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