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.
Like how very few cows there are. Only 6% of the combined mass of mammals on earth is wild. The rest is livestock.
It's also another useful opportunity to highlight the common double standard when it comes to bicycles and speed. A cyclist travelling at >20mph...
Right. It's grammatical, but initially misleading. This is known as a garden path sentence.
This is a fundamental issue with so many bike lanes. The ones that are shit and just painted on the road are worse than none at all because far too...
Wierd take. There are miles of difference between a little pootle into town on a commute and effort and miles an average Road.CC reader puts in....
This is a great article. Misses the point that the real heroes are the Poll Clerks and Presiding Officers. Working for a little over basic wage...
There's a 10 minute motion in Parliament today promoting graduated driving licencing for new drivers which is something championed by Brake. I hope...
Billions of blue blistering bollards! As Captain Haddock would say.
Slightly off topic, but my last few bikes have arrived by courier in a box. I'm amazed at how few of them included proper instructions on how to...
With the increasing daily volume of "anti-cycling" propaganda churned out by the tabloid press to feed the ever-frustrated general public, ...