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.
Seems to me Essex Police are completely correct - the driver has seen the cyclist and considered how far over they need to move to avoid scratching...
Which is great - but you can only take a bus which exists eg. is going somewhere near where you want to go, when you want to go....
There should be a review of the safety of mini-roundabouts...lousy for cyclists...
Erm, does someone need counting lessons?
My cannondale SuperSix gen3 frameset i recently bougth has a sticker saying: made in China. Dont know about the newest models.
Yes, possibly. They'd be flogging a dead horse though, wouldn't they, as long as it was clear that the cycle lane was marked as still under...
Cos style, and did you not read it only weighs 158g!...
It's strange - some folks who grew up there say it was a great community and has declined. Some folks say it was "like Beiruit" and has calmed down...
This looks like an appropriate article to put this link for later use:...
Imagining this spoken in the voice of Peter Cook's E.L.Wisty ("No I didn't know I'm the most boring man you've ever met, that really is most...