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 Farrelly, 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.
That Artificial Insanity video is absolutely genius.
Two pigs die amid three more hit-and-runs involving livestock around New Forest animal accident black spot route the B3078 Roger Penny Way...
Motorists should always signal when pulling out from the side, turning left or right even if they look and do not see anything - we all have blind...
The whole system is regressive. As above, do not earn enough to pay tax, no discount. Standard rate tax payer, standard rate discount. Higher rate...
This surely needs to feed into the new "Road Safety Strategy"....
I think you may find that LME are part of the problem. ...
Spectacular isn't it, given the scattergun spread of cliches they've blasted, you'd think they'd get somewhere near the point just by chance, but...
Remember the discounts on Decathlon and Halfords via Cycling UK. It can tip the balance, esp. if you are able to collect in person.
Laughing on the outside...
Watch car seriously stuck after careering off the road and smashing through fence...