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off.road.cc: the home of off-road news, reviews and buying advice
Founded in 2017, off.road.cc has become the UK’s biggest off-road-specific cycling website covering everything from mountain biking and bikepacking to gravel riding and racing.
Like our sister site road.cc, off.road.cc is independently owned, meaning unbiased, objective content spanning reviews, buying guides, features, and in-depth deep-dive technical articles. Our team comprises award-winning writers, passionate storytellers, and some of the best age-group riders in the UK.
As dedicated riders, we have our finger on the pulse for all things cycling-related, and this is reflected in the stories we publish daily. Our experience and collective knowledge make us the trusted source for all your off-road information and buying advice.
Meet the team
Liam Mercer - Managing Editor
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Since beginning his mountain biking career while working as a resort photographer in Greece in 2014, Liam became a freelance contributor at off.road.cc in 2019. From there, he’s climbed the journalism job ladder from staff writer to technical editor, now finding his place as managing editor.
Partial to the odd enduro race, heart rate-raising efforts on slim-tyred cross-country bikes, hell-for-leather e-MTB blasts or even casual gravel jaunts, there’s not a corner of off-road cycling where Liam fears to tread. With more than 40 bike reviews under his belt and hundreds more on MTB, e-MTB, and gravel parts and accessories, Liam’s expertise continues to be cemented and respected by the industry.
Matthew Page - Reviews writer
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Matt’s cycling journey has been anything but conventional. From childhood rides and races with friends to proper competitions as a teenager, he eventually became a cycle courier in his early 20s.
Logging big miles boosted his fitness, leading to major race wins and a full-time contract with Wiggle in the late 2000s. After several incredible years racing iconic events worldwide, he began organising his own events, including the renowned Battle on the Beach.
Writing about his racing adventures for top magazines naturally evolved into gear reviews. Riding around 20,000 km annually in Wales, with a big percentage off-road, he focuses on clear, practical reviews grounded in real-world use.
Stu Kerton - Reviews writer
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Since writing his first bike review back in 2009, Stu has tested more than a thousand pieces of kit and hundreds of bikes, both on and off-road. With an HND in mechanical engineering and previous roles as a CNC programmer/machinist, draughtsman, and development engineer, Stu knows what it takes to bring something to market from the simplest of sketches through to the finished product on the shelves.
Stu started cycling for fitness back in 1999 before his competitive nature saw him enter the pointy helmet/tiny skinsuit world of time-trialling until 2015. With racing done with and looking for a new focus, the birth of gravel bikes came along at just the right time. Stu now spends his riding time 50/50 between road and gravel, although he keeps looking at those flat-barred bikes with wide knobbly tyres and bouncy forks, and wondering if he’s missing out.
Rebecca Bland - Tech and news writer
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Rebecca has been riding bikes since she was a kid and was particularly taken with mountain biking after a trip to the Forest of Dean with her dad on a sketchy MTB tandem. Since then, she’s dabbled in some road racing, time trialling, but keeps coming back to the muddy dark side – even more so now she has two border collie trail dogs to tire out.
She began testing and reviewing bikes over five years ago and has written for various cycling publications, including MBR and our sister sites, road.cc and ebiketips. What she lacks in technical ability, she makes up for with an enthusiasm for riding snacks. As off.road.cc’s token northerner, rumour has it she’s never more than a mile away from a Greggs.
Ty Rutherford
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Ty is an out-and-out mountain biker, mostly of the gravity orientation. Growing up racing downhill and moving into enduro, the need for speed is real. But every once in a while, some slower-paced bikepacking adventures satisfy a different kind of urge to explore the great outdoors.
Alongside writing about bikes, he also coaches others on how to ride them, guides around the Brecon Beacons, and has a day job as a software developer.
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