Mat has been in cycling media since 1996, on titles including BikeRadar, Total Bike, Total Mountain Bike, What Mountain Bike and Mountain Biking UK, and he has been editor of 220 Triathlon and Cycling Plus. Mat has been road.cc technical editor for over a decade, testing bikes, fettling the latest kit, and trying out the most up-to-the-minute clothing. We send him off around the world to get all the news from launches and shows too. He has won his category in Ironman UK 70.3 and finished on the podium in both marathons he has run. Mat is a Cambridge graduate who did a post-grad in magazine journalism, and he is a winner of the Cycling Media Award for Specialist Online Writer. Now pushing 50, he's riding road and gravel bikes most days for fun and fitness rather than training for competitions.
I'm surprised you had difficulty with them. The Di2 cables were easy to route through - I just poked them through from the shifter holes and then...
Why 12 speed? I'd much rather have seen a Rival22 Etap where a cassette is £35 than a shiny new 12 speed groupset with a £120 cassette! It feels as...
Or perhaps, as has been widely reported, they simply can't get the stock due to a combination of COVID and Brexit....
Sadly this I believe is the case and it needs to be addressed.
I have the stripey Evoc bag - bought it on eBay for a bargain - a hundred and something quid when the retail price was in the three hundreds. I was...
Just to be contrarian: Are you goïng to spend a lot of time walking on hard flat surfaces? Personally, I'm right in the target demographic for...
Indeed. I have heard it suggested that the UK has been moved down their priority list post Brexit, but I have no idea how true that is....
gets my vote for Quote of the Week.
I was impressed when I saw it, I could do with something that holds a 2 or 3 inch tyre, it looks simple to adjust, quality build, and cheap enough...
Or stealing david9694 's image