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.
What type of speedometer, with what accuracy will be required?
van gets stuck on notorious Devon tidal road...
Odd. He must have been in a LOT of pain to take a pain-killer that would make him drowsy and doesn't enhance his power.
Are you also hoping for a cabinet post Martin?
Telegraph getting a free pass again I note, theyve run more anti cycling stories than the Mail over the last 12 months, purely by dint they write...
That's an awesome achievement!...
Mate, you didn't see me?
Check that your licence plate is straight and legible and your liability insurance hasn't lapsed. Also, make sure that your citizen papers are...
Interestingly, North Korea is the only country in the world to currently have a cyclist registration scheme. ...
Having run Ekar for a good few months now, I can understand the desire to move to an electronic shift set up. The set-up sensitivity on the cable...