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.
Tough stage to call. Suited all of GC, KOM and breakaaway riders... not helped by the fact it was much harder than it looked on the profile....
How can it do the one without doing the other (Newton's 3rd law)?
He later won his appeal (having lost two jobs over it) but he was prosecuted "under section 127(1) of the Communications Act 2003, which prohibits...
"cycle like you drive" huh?
Yet again, a scheme which excluded cyclists, leading to danger, congestion and the deterring of many people who want to cycle. We've had pro...
Suspected driver arrested after crashing into Poultry Cross in Salisbury...
Milton Keynes is much appreciated by those that live here and much maligned by the ignorant.
“While the car driver could have waited until both them and the cyclist had turned the corner, in this instance the manner of driving did not...
Those left-out details include, from what I'm reading, that allegedly Strickland bought guns for himself and Armstrong, that being the gun used by...
But what if you are racing, but doing an endurance race, like the Transcontinental?