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 would recommend the Terry Pratchet Discworld novels. The Newtonian Spectrum contains Seven colours. On Discworld we have an eighth color -...
It is likely that the number of fatal road collisions would not change or would decline if seat belts were banned, and unlikely that they would...
I also live in Cheshire and amy dealings with Cheshire Police have been variable....
I'm a saddo that does a bit of this because I can't be bothered to take the juice to be competive racing. When I tried to get a local KOM, I found...
Not been following closely, but I think Shimano have arrived at the point of being able to deliver an automatic drive train with e-bike, Di2 and...
Or a 4S, if they are still making that. Absolutely endorse Kinesis bikes.
I ended up in hospital last year after a careless chap didn't check to see if the junction was clear and drove head first into me. Another driver...
I grew up near to a notorious junction which accounted for a fatality every five years or so. It was only when a Mum and her twins were killed that...
Andor is the best Star Wars series in my opinion as it's a lot more grown up than the others. It's got some excellent performances from the cast -...
Wish I had a dash cam today....