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.
I don't see what the problem is. It is and always has been illegal to ride a bicycle on the pavement, this is nothing new and as a long time...
The Telegraph has now issued a correction:...
I have actually watched this movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2246549/
Yeah, I certainly didn't love it. I walked a lot. Luckily I was wearing trainers because I did the thing where the bike is in the car with me, and...
I was thinking that today watching riders in the middle of the peloton cycling hands-free whilst trying to deal with a flappy jacket, taking a...
Also flourescent bellies (https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/artful-amoeba/for-some-reason-new-world-flying-squirrels-fluoresce-pink/)
As Rendel says - probably on balance just having a curb so it's clear "this is not your space" and a bit of separation, per a standard Dutch cycle...
That was pretty scary and the driver was lucky to get away with just three points. Hopefully the driver will be better behind the wheel from now on...
It's a really nice kit - I had one on order for Mrs H during Covid but their backlog at that time was so long I eventually cancelled it – but...
It would only be non obvious to a very young child or a fool, it is supposed to be non obvious to someone familiar with that field of engineering.