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.
No it isn't; don't pretend that you know what you're talking about....
Some mad skillz here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w9S_vzdOX4
If it is Charlie, then he'd be better off emailing road.cc or newspapers to see if they want to interview him. I'd guess it'd be easy enough for a...
It's time to revive this thread and remind people to check their Shimano hydraulic brake pad retaining pins!...
It's in the post, now will you let us know?
Rubbish course- but the 2 superstars made it a fantastic race. Crowd numbers were amazing.
You're very right, they are seat stays indeed :) that's corrected now - thanks for pointing out!
All cycle lanes without bollards do is signal to people "you can park here without obstructing other cars"
That's a lot of money for a small picture of a fox.
The Garmin HRM-Pro Plus is my preferred HR strap for triathlon. Be warned that it falls off when you swim wearing trunks - you need to wear a tri...