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.
Thieves?
yes please
I would try the new generation of Shimano hydralics before giving up. GRX and onward (including all the 12 speeds) have a different pivot point...
Mechanical Campagnolo Centaur (2,484 g / £600) is 500g lighter. Yes, half a kilo !!!...
Not a necessary tool, just useful.
Tapir in the winter?
I think that's what Ashley Neal was quibbling about (and equally inaccurate) too. I appreciate the concern, but this appears to be "we'll follow...
As a Palace fan, I could Is Michael Olise still giving you nightmares?
These ones https://www.rg-racing.com/browseBike/Universal/Universal/All/BB-MTB-001-00-
Fair enough - missed that. For some reason it's buried in a bit where they already appear to have moved off the present story to add in references...