Acknowledged by the Telegraph as a leading cycling journalist, John Stevenson 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 editor 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 and these days he lives in Cambridge where the lack of hills is more than made up for by the headwinds.
Good on him for persisting with this. Of course it's ridiculous to suggest that someone endangering another's life should escape prosecution...
If you actually want to look at comparable statistics then may I suggest you start here:...
Interestingly, if you go to the Daily Mail comments section for this story (usual health warnings apply) you will find the same sentiments repeated...
Them phone things would never have caught on...
Except where they put people on remand, to protect society. And they also tend to remove the weapon from someone sometime before the court case...
Hmm. What about Shimano GRX 1x? Time to update the article?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_POxZSkaU Not sure he's keen keeping his mileage up though...
Only in America could the gun be considered as not a weapon, and of no consequence.
It depends how much the bike is worth I guess and how bothered you are, I personally don't bother with insurance (they are profit making entities...
That is a very good point. It's similar to finding the sprinters who still go for the 'win' behind a breakaway - can be worth a lot of points.