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.
I have to say that if you'd shown me a picture of that bike and asked me to say what type of new Giant bike it is, I'd have guessed a Giant TCR. I...
He's very interesting. Even when he's the last support rider he often goes higher than most.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-62589575
Better call Saul...
Here's the only thing I would buy.... If the government commissioned an online course ( value questionable, but stay with me) that a cyclist over...
Exactly!...
He's trying to gain publicity for when Jacob Rees Mogg tries to ban the programme for obscenity.
still going to be a bloater when you put an electronic disc groupset on it
I've noted elsewhere that the official definition of SI can mean anything from being rendered quadraplegic to "attended A&E, nothing found". A...
Yeah! I ride on my race bike with di2. The complete carbon Storck frame set and a complete ultegra di2 group costed 1200£! However, mayb (hopefully...