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.
Looks like a residential street to me. Loads of such streets in Cambridge are one-way for motors, two-way for bikes. Carnage remarkably fails to...
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/20145139.man-injured-driver-hits-cyclis... Interesting umm sign on the bonnet !
I wasn't tubeless at the time, but I did sew this one up until I got a new tyre. This slit was big enough that a tube would blister out of it and...
Still forces going through spokes and hub to fork in rim brake scenario.
Bloody Nora! Now that's why I don't ride the road in the UK. Went down Ventoux at over 80kph, along with thousands of others, nobody ever sees that...
I probably (definitely ) spent more on these lamps and batteries than I ever did on my bikes when I was young. (Road bike: Elswick Hopper drop...
I have an Ultegra group set but I've replaced the chain set for 105s 53/39 with 70.00 crank lengths the Ultegra cranks were 72.5 with compact rings...
This is strikingly similar to the people who say footballers holding up Ukraine flags with 'peace' written on them before matches should also be...
Presumably this "assists" the driver by removing the need to check his mirrors every 5 seconds as we all should do. (My own experience is somewhat...
This very clearly highlights the difference in spending between cycling & motoring, 200million for all of England cycling vs 200million on some...