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.
oh go on then.
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Quick-Step's Tour team: Asgreen, Bagioli, Honoré, Mørkøv, Jakobsen, Cattaneo, Declerq and Lampaert. Sénéchal and Cavendish as reserves
I'm sorry, but that bloke is a bit of a moron. With press like this, it's no surprise cyclists get a bad name....
Plus the foliage like briers, nettles, thin/thick branches etc, pedestrians or runners that step out to avoid others by not looking first.
Not been to NL (or Malmo, or Copenhagen, or Seville, or Bern, or Paris ...)? I highly recommend a virtual tour - but with an informed guide. The...
Anyone checked the weather forecast? Rain for all three opening days in Denmark. Unfortunately (for the spectators), only light wind....
Highway Code Rule 237. "If you are dazzled by bright sunlight, slow down and if necessary, stop."
Oh dear. How sad. Nevermind.
Best comment on here, although there are several others on here who have been supportive of a woman's right to choose what happens to her own body,...