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 Farrelly, 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.
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It doesn't work for me at all either but hey we all have different tastes and big grats for winning and getting a bike that looks how you want it to!
Hideous is the word!
That is hideous. Nice opinions, you strange strange people.
That is the most hideous paint scheme I have EVER seen. I feel sick just looking at at.
Not my color preference, but it looks like the color scheme would be for the Lampre-Merida team.
Agreed that this seemed to be a contest of who had the biggest social media following in the end, but fair play to the winner, I hope the bike gets plenty of use.
Am I the only one that counts just 24 names on that list though?
What happened to the 25th?
Nice bike in Dulux colour chart paint scheme Enjoy the bike whatever happens!
...yay...and i'm just a jealous guy! Congrats; it was nearly as good as mine although I stood no chance of winning....... (because I never got short listed!!).....what?
Congratulations Juliet! Though not sure I would buy a pink bike...
Well Done Juliet
1966, a good number to end on.
It actually kind of works. Congrats!
How appropriate that up to now Ms Elliott is best known for riding a fixie .....
well done! but I thought everyone wanted black these days
Probably the better design from my memory, but given she's a sponsored rider and can use her network of fans to vote for her, it should either have not been a 'voted for by fans' competition or she should have been allowed to enter. Danger with this is that it becomes a who has the most social media followers competition, not who has the dest deign.
glad that one won, was the best looking by far
ah well done! Its nice that someone so truly excited about it won it Great design!
Well done Juliet.
Hope you enjoy your Domane as much as I do mine.
Well done Juliet.
And very magnanimous in defeat there Si. My green & yellow flames (I like the flames!) could only manage mid-table - I think I'd feel slightly more gutted if I'd come second!
Congrats, Juliet!
[waits for the sh*t to hit the fan] this one's had more twists and turns than a Robert Mugabe election campaign...
Well done Juliet! Enjoy it.
I am just happy the winner doesn't have flames on it.
That's the one I voted for! Easily the bestest!