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.
My difficulty with arthritic hands isn't shifting but breaking on long or steep descents. My hands lose strength and after a couple of hairy...
Carlton Kirby: "If they [the breakaway] start looking at each other here, they'll get caught!"...
Frame price will be like £/€/$4,000.
I thought they were bull bars for knocking pesky peds out of the way !
I assume the front chain wheel and crank di2 version are no different from a mechanical one. Just checking my options for when my ultegra fails !
I've had one side done a few years ago and am due to have the other done in a few weeks....
"In Monday’s article, Webber made the unsubstantiated claim that Lanark Road residents have recently noticed a sharp increase in the number of...
That's an argument about emphasis and editorial choices, though - not about accuracy, which is how the original comment was framed....
It sounds like they're incompossible.
Lock it in