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Cirencester man charged after cyclists run off road last year

Dean Goble pleads not guilty on three counts of dangerous driving

Almost a year after he is alleged to have deliberately driven his car at cyclists on three separate occasions, a man from Cirencester is due to stand trial on three counts of dangerous driving.

The Swindon Advertiser reports that 39-year-old Dean Goble will face a jury on Tuesday, April 28.

After setting the trial date Judge Tim Mousley QC, at Swindon Crown Court, released Goble on bail.

Goble is alleged to have run cyclists off the road with a V-reg Peugeot 206 diesel turbo on Ashton Road in Ashton Keynes on Wednesday, April 30 2014.

He is also charged in relation to a similar incident on Wednesday May 7 on an unclassified road between Ewen and Cirencester, and a third on High Road, Ashton Keynes, on Thursday, May 8.

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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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