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 over 50, he's riding road and gravel bikes most days for fun and fitness rather than training for competitions.
I think so too. I've used it twice in that time as have many of my colleagues. ...
YouGov poll of who Conservative party members want to be the next PM....
Exactly. People are so hung up on the name and lord knows what else. Ignoring the fact that even Tiagra from today is better than the very best...
I think last year he won on Ventoux from the breakaway group when the main GC riders were in the pack. His objective within the team this year is...
Riders with wheels on the edge of the cobbles (on the cobbles none the less) and spectator filming riders that had already passed whilst leaning...
Had a gardener round to tidy up and he got my old bike out from the undergrowth. It's over 30yrs old but I think it'll buff up ......🤔
Great to see electronic shifting will soon be availiable for the everyman's groupset - 105 - but i'll stick to the tried and true mechnical...
I'd give half an arm for some semi-humerous articles today. Well, maybe 1/4 of one.
A couple we've seen already this tour:...
I noticed Viagra was being advertised during the TdF highlights on ITV4 last night too!