Mat has been in cycling media since 1996, on titles including BikeRadar, Total Bike, Total Mountain Bike, What Mountain Bike and Mountain Biking UK, and he has been editor of 220 Triathlon and Cycling Plus. Mat has been road.cc technical editor for over a decade, testing bikes, fettling the latest kit, and trying out the most up-to-the-minute clothing. We send him off around the world to get all the news from launches and shows too. He has won his category in Ironman UK 70.3 and finished on the podium in both marathons he has run. Mat is a Cambridge graduate who did a post-grad in magazine journalism, and he is a winner of the Cycling Media Award for Specialist Online Writer. Now pushing 50, he's riding road and gravel bikes most days for fun and fitness rather than training for competitions.
There is a huge difference between holding someone up for a few minutes and endangering someone's life....
Sorry - yes - you're right:...
Surely their tweet should have laughing emojis rather than a couple of trees? Better still, a two-faced emoji....
Don't know about that, but there is generally a lot of support up there for the Etape. It's a place where the tourist industry dominates, but May...
If only you'd take a leaf.........
That's the special floodlight mode. I'll get that edited. Thanks for the spot!
Well don't read my comment then! THey may be average in rolling resistance terms but they're comfortable, flexible, fast (for me at least). If you...
I've done it twice solo: Brentford to Barca in 1992 (flew back) and Barca to Ascot in 2012 - there was an Olympic theme linking the two. The north...
It might not be a problem that everyone will have and it will depend on individual shoe/pedal/crank arm combinations along with the cleat position...
Love this. Hopefully trickle down ecomomics will mean all our clothing will have a lower impact on the environment