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.
I seem to recall one of those motorway programmes a few years back attended reported bikes on the motorway - turned out someone had got Halfords to...
Shit state bikes ... nothing to be proud of, a liability to the rider and a danger to the rest of us....
The slow road marking is interesting. I don't think its there (solely, or if at all) to warn of pedestrians crossing - I think its there as a...
Well aware this is comparing apples with wellington boots, but 10 years ago I got SRAM Force for not much more than this. And it came with a Canyon...
Its a pretty clear cut case of a driver not even thinking about anyone else which is completely the norm. Thats why so many drivers blame the...
Did residents say the same about the M1 immediately after it was built? ATE is trying to turn around 60 years of driving centric culture.
Otherwise law-abiding?
I hadn't really noticed how the drivers of the cars alongside just drive off, no offer to witness, just go, not my problem mate.
Had a weird problem end of last summer, on the Getting to Work bike, 26inch latex tubed, while the Rohloff was getting seals replaced, and on...
I lived over the road from De Ver's for a couple of years back in the mists of time and bought a few bits and pieces from Maurice when needed....