Mat has been in cycling media since 1996, on titles including BikeRadar, Total Bike, Total Mountain Bike, What Mountain Bike and Mountain Biking UK, and he has been editor of 220 Triathlon and Cycling Plus. Mat has been road.cc technical editor for over a decade, testing bikes, fettling the latest kit, and trying out the most up-to-the-minute clothing. He has won his category in Ironman UK 70.3 and finished on the podium in both marathons he has run. Mat is a Cambridge graduate who did a post-grad in magazine journalism, and he is a winner of the Cycling Media Award for Specialist Online Writer. Now over 50, he's riding road and gravel bikes most days for fun and fitness rather than training for competitions.
Oh - now I get it. Those things are a menace in the high street - you'll either be worryingly close above all the pedestrian's heads ("huge...
Not being able to cover demand is not a good enough reason to re-test. Increase the capacity. Grade tests as beginner, refresher etc. Fail a...
Wendover was iirc one of the places that undermined HS2 by demanding that all the money be spent on tunnels, wasn't it?...
Exactly!
Sticks and Stones. Beggars beleif. How about actually doing something to prevent these incidents, rather than wasting time and money on vanity...
TBH I don't think that's quite fair....
Great, if you happen to live in one of those areas. Unfortunately, many of us don't; in London free bikes are definitely available but there are so...
There are sort of First Generation standards, which are a series of minimums around mainly common process (eg driving license categories)....
The entire concept of "safe cycling routes" is insane, and bassackwords. A town near me is debating officially designating about 5% of its roads...
The Fr Russell Rd one looks horribly narrow, with a pedal-strike kerb against the cycle track on one side.