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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Does anyone remember when the thought of a Brit being successful on the road was laughable...great innit'
Where is cancellara from the top 3??!!
Warren Barguil should have got best French.
Looking forwards to 2014. Think its gonna be 2 on the trot for froome despite the lack of TT's.
Looking forwards to 2014. Think its gonna be 2 on the trot for froome despite the lack of TT's.
Much more deserved than that knighthood bloke imo ...
How so?
If you compare Wiggins' 2012 season and Froome's 2013 season it's hard to say 'much more deserved' based on results, really. Both were dominant, both deserved it.
...so I suppose my point is, it doesn't matter if it was more deserved than the knighthood bloke...it's just different, and it's all good.
Wholly predictable, but thoroughly deserved.
Not quite sure how Sagan was able to overtake Cancellara given that he beat Sagan on more than a few occasions and won Paris-Roubaix
Sagan has the highest win rate in the peloton (I think), something like 25% of stages for all races entered. 1 in 4 - wow. Cav is it about 19% as per this excellent inrng article