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. 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.
Second in road racing I think after Andre Dredge in the Tour of Norway, but there's also been Scott Huntley last month in the USA national downhill...
James (not so) Cleverly - it's not 20mph "everywhere". There's the M4, for a start...
It is the last point that is key with many Dashcam clips we receive where a cyclist is cycling along a road and a vehicle drives past too close....
Could you provide a link to that? I just tried searching for it on Hansard and found nothing. What I did find was that under Labour police numbers...
Advice stuck firmly in the 1970s. Today, all it does is enable more driver gaslighting of their responsibility for safety on to - literally -...
Many years ago, I was stopped by the police and they checked my registration by radio calling back to HQ - it took about ten minutes - his...
Fair to middling?
People need to stop calling it road tax , It's vehicle tax
Most *people* aren't cycling *any* trips, true. I *think* the majority of cycling in the UK is "recreational" but I'm far from certain that "most...
The biggest advantage of commuting by bike, is it's just much more fun (well, when a dodgy driver isn't trying to run you off the road)....