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 Farelly, 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.
Car flips onto roof in late-night crash on Scots country road...
What's the solution? Dunno what vthejk's one is but mine would look a bit like this....
Looks like the BBC will be showing the Sunday stage on BBC Two. No coverage of the other days. Which is annoying as the Sunday is just the "crit"...
Slight wrinkle: please don't ever call us 'coloureds,' no matter with how much irony. But yes, I agree.
This is absolutely fine. Once the two stem bolts are torqued up correctly, you could in fact remove the top cap altogether. It is no longer serving...
Good for him - I guess the Clyde cycle tunnel wasn't "practicable" for that journey.
Done this for the past few years (covid permitting), and the people along the route are overwhelmingly supportive, although the smell of barbeques...
Reports of antagonistic motorists along the route will do little to brighten the mood of RideLondon’s organisers...
I had my brake mount surfaces faced, and I can't stress enough how crucial this is. While the front was fine on my frameset, the rear had one...
Only 5 points for failing to steer a bus around a person?...