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.
“And don't get me started on houses. You hardly ever see any people inside a house during the day, so what’s the point in putting all this money...
I did, I just think he's full of s***
Cycling is not a lawless act, because its totally lawful to kill a cyclist....
Energy from the Severn - it's always baffled me why one of the highest tidal ranges in the world can't be harnessed for a clean, predictable and...
My cleaning go-to is old t-shirts. I've got mixed feelings about the fluff of microfibre towel; tea towels not so much as they don't have the bit...
Inventive Journalism "Car Collides with wall", lazy journalism would have been 'Crashes' ...
Two points of clarification....
Unlikely IMO. They've already pretty much run out of parliamentary time. Only statutory instrument stuff could get done now.
Good luck Dave. May well see you there. Hopefully the weather will be like it is this week!
Well done for Reading cyclists for being so welcoming.