road.cc: independent news, reviews and buying advice
Launched in 2008, road.cc is the UK’s largest independently owned and run cycling news, reviews and buying advice website, dedicated to covering every aspect of what it means to be a cyclist riding in the UK and beyond.
At road.cc we pride ourselves on the honesty and independence of our news, reviews and features, and the expertise of our award-winning team of journalists. Our mission is to tell it as we see it without fear or favour, whether that’s news coverage of all the issues affecting cyclists today, or using all of our expertise reviewing the latest bikes and cycling products to give you buying advice you can trust.
Meet the team
Jack Sexty: editor
The editorial buck at road.cc has stopped with Jack since 2020 when he became editor of the site, having joined from 220 Triathlon Magazine in 2017. Jack has a master’s degree in journalism, and his journalistic CV contains stints as both a news writer and editor, plus a tech writer and product reviewer. This combination of journalistic expertise and cycling experience, plus bloody-minded integrity, made him the natural fit for the road.cc editorship.
A former competitive age-group triathlete, Jack mostly rides his bike around local cycle paths nowadays – with child seat attached – but when he wants to get the racer out and be competitive his preferred events are time trials, sportives and triathlons. He’s also pretty handy with a pogo stick, but that’s another story…
Tech and reviews
Mat Brett: tech editor
Mat has been road.cc technical editor since 2009: testing bikes, fettling the latest kit, and trying out the most up-to-the-minute cycle clothing, Mat’s been writing about all things bike related since 1996, on titles including Cycling Plus, BikeRadar, Total Bike, Total Mountain Bike, What Mountain Bike and Mountain Biking UK. He has edited both Cycling Plus and 220 Triathlon Magazine, and was managing editor of Mounting Biking UK.
Mat is a Cambridge graduate with a post-grad in magazine journalism. He is a winner of the Cycling Media Award for Specialist Online Writer and regarded by his peers as one of the world’s leading cycling tech writers. He is also a phenomenally strong athlete and rider, winning his category in Ironman UK 70.3 and finished on the podium in both marathons he has run. Now over 50, he’s riding road and gravel bikes most days for fun and fitness rather than training for competitions.
Alex Bowden: reviews editor
In charge of reviews at road.cc, Alex is our production pedant, who boldly goes hunting for split infinitives, rogue apostrophes and other things up with which he will not put.
Though he’s written and edited across road.cc and ebiketips for over a decade, Alex has also written for more cricket publications than the rest of the road.cc team combined. Despite the apparent evidence of the picture above, he doesn’t especially like cake…
Stu Kerton: senior product reviewer
Since writing his first bike review for road.cc back in early 2009, senior product reviewer Stu has tested more than a thousand pieces of kit, and hundreds of bikes.
With an HND in mechanical engineering and previous roles as a CNC programmer/machinist, draughtsman and development engineer (working in new product design) Stu understands what it takes to bring a product to market. A mix of that knowledge combined with his love of road and gravel cycling puts him in the ideal position to put the latest kit through its paces.
He first made the switch to road cycling in 1999, primarily for fitness, but it didn’t take long for his competitive side to take over, which led to around ten years as a time triallist and some pretty decent results. These days though, riding is more about escapism, keeping the weight off and just enjoying the fact that he gets to ride the latest technology as part of his day job.
Emily Tillett: tech writer
Emily is our track and road racing specialist, having represented Great Britain at the junior World and European Track Championships. With a National Title up her sleeve, Emily has a BSc in Sport and Exercise Science and a MSc in Sport and Exercise Psychology from Loughborough University, where she raced for the Elite Development Team, Loughborough Lightning.
Emily is our expert on all things training, and when she’s not riding or racing bikes, you’ll likely find her online shopping or planning her next trip. The rest of the office is now considering painting their nails to see if that’s the secret to going fast…
News
Ryan Mallon: news editor
After obtaining a PhD, lecturing, and hosting a history podcast at Queen’s University Belfast, Ryan joined road.cc in December 2021 and since then has kept the site’s readers and listeners informed and enthralled (well at least occasionally) on news, the live blog, and the road.cc Podcast.
After boarding a wrong bus at the world championships and ruining a good pair of jeans at the cyclo-cross, he now serves as the senior news writer at road.cc. Before his foray into cycling journalism, he wallowed in the equally pitiless world of academia, where he wrote a book about Victorian politics and droned on about cycling and bikes to classes of bored students (while taking every chance he could get to talk about cycling in print or on the radio). He can be found riding his bike very slowly around the narrow, scenic country lanes of Co. Down.
Callum Devereux: news writer
Callum is road.cc’s news writer, having initially joined as a freelance journalist in September 2025. He is also a Road Book contributor and has written for the almanac since 2023. He has a master’s degree in Broadcast Journalism from Cardiff University, where his dissertation focused on Geraint Thomas’ retirement and the boom and bust of the domestic racing calendar. He also has a degree in Scandinavian Studies & Politics which is somehow even more niche.
Video
Liam Cahill: lead video production editor
Joining the road.cc staff in 2016 as a reviewer, Liam started out writing feature articles and news pieces. After becoming Editor of DealClincher at the start of 2018, Liam became the lead video presenter on road.cc. A move to BikeRadar followed in 2022, where Liam continued to cut his teeth as a video presenter and became an award-winning journalist. In a plot twist for the ages, Liam then returned to road.cc in 2025 as Lead Video Production Editor, and can once more be found talking about shiny new things and annoying team mechanics over on our YouTube channel.