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.
You sound like a Guardian reader; I hope reading road.cc isn't heuristic for leftist..
Bring back hanging!
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13 speeds, utter madness, aimed at overweight, too-wealthy targets of the cycling industry, and nothing to do with real cycling. Why doesn't Road...
If I read any more articles trying to pretend that groupset and frame manufacturers are led by consumer demand, I think I might lose the will to...
I'm not seeing the racist bit - do you mean the use of 'gammon'? That'd be complexion-shaming, not racism.
I know more about this than most people - they could release it without Matt's consent if it was required for them to do their job (eg were you...
I've never wanted a Propel before I saw this model. LBS (Giant Leamington) posted they had one in store for the Commonwealth RR the other week..
I have to wonder if this decision would have ever been changed if the media hadn't kicked up a fuss over this. The Daily Mail did pick this up and...