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.
Copied and pasted in all its glory!
DAMN THAT'S… let's say, not my taste 😏
I am referring to the new chicane barriers. If you do not dismount, but cycle through the U chicane, you will be cycling on the designated footway,...
Sourced from the carbon fibre plants that have flourished in the Grimsby area since the last ice age?
Ah, gotcha
It's so tiring, all these brands using eloquent marketing language to show how unique and premium they are....
Nearly... (more so in the US - the problem is are they aware of their passengers and the humans around them?)
My condolences to David Lang's family. It really is terrible....
I am so sad to read about the loss of Aidan, my heartfelt condolences to his family and friends and team-mates
With most lights, though, this approach will quickly lead to your light flapping loosely while pointing mostly at your front wheel.