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.
Great article. Very informative. Certainly allays almost all of the concerns I had about electronic groupsets, particularly the range/charge status...
Thanks! 💙...
Without competition, the market will always fail. If I could choose Severn Trent from my taps this morning but Wessex for that after dinner wind...
It's certainly to be hoped that any wrongdoers got their just desserts.
A God of British Cycling ... his time after racing would be a good second book... top man ......
Yeah, f*cking cyclists...
And how would you feel if you were a talented, successful rider and suddenly found yourself struggling to keep up in races you should have been...
The recent 25% plunge in Halfords' share price following their profit forecast downgrade is a stark reminder of the challenges facing the retail...
We don't need to bathe at all.
... and Japan, though I understand that is more to do with discouraging theft.