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.
Mmm.. I always read their 'anti-cyclist' posts as being deliberately ridiculous and in doing so highlighting the absurdity of actual anti-cycling...
Fwiw neither Sky or HSBC funded this race, though BC do fund the Tour of Britain in some way, or own naming rights, as that's why it's called the...
Victim's mother might be acting more out of spite than concern for other road users. I find English people (and that includes me) have a reserve...
No mention of why cars are different it seems... I wonder why? Because they aren't perhaps?
We all know that as soon as you sit on a bicycle you become invisible.
The only possible excuses for a close pass are I messed up or I'm a dick, neither of which are legitimate.
Southampton cemetery bollards plans: Families stage protest...
Reminds me of when I accidentally filled up an escort with diesel. She never fully recovered.
I rode on the University side towards Peppard Lane, its quite bumpy. The opposite side for sure delivery drivers will park on it., Perhaps that was...
The police will do nothing, and without personal consequences for the driver these unspeakable offences will continue - punctuated by the...