Carlton Reid's
WEBSITES
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BOOKS
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Carlton Reid
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Latest book
Family Cycling,
the latest book
by Carlton Reid (Snowbooks, 2009)
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Carlton
Reid has been writing about bicycles and travel for 20 years. He has
written for many cycling and travel magazines and UK newspapers including The Guardian and The Independent,
and is the author of several books on travel and cycling.
BikeBiz.com, Carlton's then one-man website, came joint second with BBC.co.uk in the European Online Journalism Awards 2000 and was ‘highly
commended’ in the B2B website category of the PPA Awards for Editorial
Excellence 2004.
In 2008, his Quickrelease.tv won the ‘best use of
blogging’ award in the North East Digital Awards.
By July 2009, there had been 1.65 million video views of Quickrelease.tv
videos on YouTube. The top video has had 289,000 views. The top video
for a client has had 114,000 views - see
YouTube/CarltonReid .
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Carlton Reid was the founder (1997), co-owner, editor and publisher of
On Your Bike magazine and website, a general interest full-colour
quarterly magazine sold to EMAP Active of Peterborough in December 1999.
Carlton was also founder of BikeBiz trade magazine and BikeBiz.com,
titles sold to Intent Media in 2006.
He was the presenter of ‘Chain Gang’ in 1994, a six part TV magazine
programme from Tyne Tees/Yorkshire.
He was the co-manager of the first ever British mountain bike team. This
team competed in the World Championships in Avoriaz, France, in 1987.
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Carlton Reid has travelled widely by mountain bike, usually solo,
sometimes with Gil Bor, an Israeli mathematician.
He spent two years cycling - alone - through Europe and the Middle
East (Israel, Syria, Jordan, Egypt) before starting at Newcastle
University in 1986. His trips have included: Sahara desert (1987); Death
Valley, USA (1990); Sonara desert, Mexico (1993); Malawi (1994); Lebanon
(1994); and Iceland (1995).
In June 2008, Carlton Reid was inducted into the MBUK Mountain Bike Hall of
Fame, one of the first 20 inductees.
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Carlton
is married to Judith, a hospital doctor. They live with their three
children in Newcastle.
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BOOKS
Family Cycling is Carlton Reid's latest book, published by Snowbooks
in 2009.
Other titles include:
Bike to Work Book (Commutebybike.com/Quickrelease.tv, 2008);
Classic
Mountain Bike Routes of the World (contributor, Quarto Publishing, 2000);
Lebanon: A
Travel Guide (Kindlife, 1995; Pelican USA, 1999);
I-Spy
Bicycles (Michelin, 1998);
Discover Israel (Berlitz, 1998);
Complete Book of Cycling (contributor, Hamlyn, 1997);
Adventure Mountain Biking (Crowood Press,
1990).
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