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.
Exactly. Think it was last year that Caleb Ewan showed his data for the first two hours of a GT stage where he averaged 85 watts even though the...
Unfortunately complete bollocks as usual Nige, it was "a prediction as to where we are going for better or for worse", not an order. https://www...
I don't think anyone got the sack, I've seen this driver a couple of times since this incident but his driving was marginally better. Video is here...
What about 105 cranks rather than Ultegra?
I heard there were a gang of noisy hooligans there last year stopping cars going a decent speed (about 200mph). No wonder they can't control...
Brilliant Prize
Thank you AndyStow. A DA chain with less than 150 miles had 4 slightly snug links. Mounted a new DA chain and all shifts are fine.
I've been riding around that area for the past 20 years and seen Valverde out on the road numerous times. Now and then i see poor driving but never...
I don't have any problem with the cyclist's positioning prior to the overtake, but he moved out as pictured as the car started to overtake,...
the traffic lights of Lancs...