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.
I'll need that for the Cairn EBike I'm going to win
Probably unreasonable to expect the police to do much about this as they're too busy harrassing a late middle aged man with a megaphone / amplifier...
The journalists of Scottish Sun seem to be at the same snide c@nty level as their English counterparts...
Alas yes. I see the lawyers were out protesting - normally that'd not be a cause for worry. However this is public service work they're...
Thanks. Being a long cage the first thing I did was check the straightness of the hanger.
Correct. In practice decriminalised, devolved to local authorities who may or may not do much, even if they could spare the resources. Alas it...
When all these Audi and BMW drivers fail to notice large buildings ahead, I agree.
Almost 300 notes? I'd expect 10 Boa dials for that.
It's only in Scotchland, they all look the same to the english
Yeah yeah, and "the position ... is not in the same position"... I think it's all in the author's trade mark style.