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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Three year plan? Let bikes in to the bus-lane in mean time. How long does it take to change a couple of signs?
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They managed to put in Olympic Lanes and change the traffic flow in next to no time.
Now it's time to let bikes into all bus lanes, build new cycle lanes to the same design as the Olympic Lanes - the size of a car lane and with total priority at junctions.
It can be done - the delays are just down to political apathy but now there's been a death, suddenly it's being used as political football. Just f***ing do it.
8 years of reporting it as a dangerous location and the first 'support for the cycling revolution' comes after yet another tragedy.
Listen to what we tell you. Its not just for fun that people complain about these things.
Why does it always seem to take a death before someone takes these issues seriously.
This, they've had years, decades to sort it out but have blood on their hands.
I wonder how long it will take them, even if they do follow through with actions.