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.
If they ban bikes where it's dangerous for bikes and pedestrians to interact, will they ban cars where it's dangerous for cars and bikes to interact?
What if your bike is non-euclidian?
But how accurate is it given 12nm is the minimum ?
"after his defence barrister claimed the driver was left with “an impossible choice” – to hit the car in front or swerve onto the pavement and into...
Dagenham -from twXtter
Bus stop and flipped - beat that !
Being interviewed (even under caution) is very much not the same as being charged.
There was actually a criminal case in Germany a few years back in which the judge argued that the defendants' actions were akin to shooting a...
Decent separated infrastructure is only a piece of the puzzle, and as you say, our culture's motornormativity is at the heart of a lot of issues....
MyWhoosh is also free and with plenty of routes to choose from.