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.
Its been a long time since you needed facts or proof to spout absolute nonsense in public without getting shouted down. Don't let reality get in...
They should read scampercraft and not exaggerate the danger of scuttling along. I discourage squirrel predation by acting like one.
Wow! That's not a priority lane to allow buses to keep moving, it's a "get slower vehicles out of the way of more important drivers" lane.
You can get the Varia for £10 less from Decathlon.
that would be £30 saved on wheels
Perhaps they should apply the same standard to dangerous, unsafe, poorly designed roads and COMPLETELY rip them out rather than "fix" or "redesign"...
I'm sorely tempted...must...resist...
Although the article does not make this clear, the Cybertruck reference is not made by Ingrid, but just some person stating their opinion on the...
Just like pushing a sore tooth, it's sometimes worth looking at these comments to see just how thick thick people are. Last night on the BBC NW...
Comparing road fatalities per 1 billion km driven then Australia has about twice the death rate of the UK....