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. We send him off around the world to get all the news from launches and shows too. 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.
While Polis Scotland can come across as being inept and clueless regarding road crime I think they're stuck between a rock and a hard place due to...
Great win from Welshman Stephen Williams!
I haven't seen the report to which you refer but looking at the graph that you shared there it appears only to have looked at speed versus the...
Another utterly pathetic sentence...
" Active travel schemes only appear to some to be anti driver because pretty much every other road scheme is anti active travel. "
Ah, well, without prejudice to my above defence, I would say that on the balance of probabilities the mudguards are SKS Longboards, fitted at a...
Those photos of Johnson deliberately wearing helmets badly always remind me of what Hunter S. Thompson wrote in his obituary of Nixon:...
It isn't. But the huge and apparently ever expanding cohort of people, especially in the media, who openly say that they despise cyclists and want...
Still got mine. 8.6Kg with Time ATAC pedals. Fork will take 38mm Gravel King slicks, rear 35mm. Really comfortable on shitty UK roads. Would prefer...
I think my favourite performance of his is as the photographer in People Like Us TV series...