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.
Add new comment
27 comments
Cycling forum with a sense of humour , how refreshing
Good one road.cc - had me going,
Call me gullible but this one too: http://www.wheelsuckers.co.uk/profiles/blogs/germans-to-launch-autonomou...
Good one road.cc - had me going,
Call me gullible but this one too: http://www.wheelsuckers.co.uk/profiles/blogs/germans-to-launch-autonomou...
TOO Obvious! everyone know's that Australia doesn't have any universities!
Congratulations on a real scoop for road.cc. Australia's Cycling Tips have completely missed this story. In their own back yard too. Instead they are giving us this:
http://cyclingtips.com.au/2014/04/rocacorba-daily-193/
Unbelievable.
You got me going in circles there!
In case anyone's interested, in the Independent every April's fool for the last few years BMW have always had a joke ad which are usually quite well done, and the best cycling one I've seen was a few years ago in the comic (CW) with Tom Boonens cobbled rollers for the classics preparation.
Excellent. Well played Road.
How ridiculous! Let me explain, the Coriolis force is so....
oh wait. {checks calendar}
science, cycling and the UCI all in one.
hat sir, hat.
You well and truly had me there - great job!
Veeerrrryyy good.
Good job you allowed comments from those quicker than I, you had me.
Off-topic, I'd never heard of the Coriolis effect until I played some first-person-shooter game on the playstation. There's a sniper level where you have to aim off the target, ostensibly to compensate for the Coriolis effect. Weird.
Ahh, that sounds like One Shot, One Kill in the first Modern Warfare game. Bloody hard if I remember rightly, particularly on Veteran difficulty!
nice!! got me too until I read the comments.
Pure class.
Well it's about time.
Bonus points for Allan Smithee usage.
got caught until i read the comments and remembered what day it was. Very good!
I was soooo close to being caught ...
nice one chaps
Got me too
Why not just make them ride backwards, surely that's easier?
shit you got me
Damn it got caught there !! Very funny.
Ahahahahaaaaaa aces
Like it, like it!!
Very witty.