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.
So...'Road Tax'? (Dons tin helmet and ducks for cover!)
Exactly my view. The old cheaper Shimano button wasn't great (and even then it wasn't awful) but the Campag one is much better.
Clearly they will be missed by some, despite your attitude.
True, but I imagine that (given headtube angle) forward and backward flex translates to at least a tiny amount of upward and downward movement, and...
Or you could even try becoming the Ombudsman - the job has just been advertised - https://www.lgo.org.uk/vacancies/local-government-and-social-care...
According to Tobes of Cold Dark North we're still just in Fool's Spring.
If the theory test was "just introduced" then this story didn't happen in 2020....
Thanks for taking the time! It is very useful to know some details of how figures were collected and categorised.
I found they leak a little, but not as bad as the set of Bone Conducting ones I reviewed a little while ago. They definitely leak more than in ear...
I love reviews like this, because they make me feel a lot better about how much I've spent on bicycles (probably about this much total for the four...