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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As long as there is widespread ignorance of the actual capabilities of a helmet there will continue to be fatuous interventions like this.
http://cyclehelmets.org/1139.html
What next? The hard-pressed, over-stretched police are going to be checking to make sure our chakras are properly aligned?
Well done the motoring lobby on turning this into a witch hunt against cyclists.
Just a show of farce by Boris to push the blame onto victims.
HiViz makes little or no difference, a driver going to hit you because they havent seen you is still not going to see you. Passing the blame on to cyclists for "not making yourself seen" is pathetic.
It wont be long before a helmet and Hiviz are made law then numbers of cyclists on our roads will half, problem of the cyclist sorted, clear roads for drivers.
yet another missed opportunity. there was so much that _COULD_ have been done with this but sadly they just choose to flog the same old dead horse again.
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