Based in Spain since 1990, he has been the cycling correspondent for the Independent and the Independent on Sunday since 2001, and has covered the Tour de France and other major cycling races, since 1992. He is a regular contributor to the Express and Reuters on cycling, as well as two major British cycling publications, Cycle Sport and Cycling Weekly. The Eagle of Toledo, his biography of the Spanish cyclist Federico Martin Bahamontes, was published in 2012.