Tony Bell
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Antony Bell |
| Born | 20 June 1958  England United Kingdom |
| Height | Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). |
| Team information | |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Amateur team(s) | |
| - | Birkenhead Victoria CC |
| - | Birkenhead North End CC |
| - | Prescot Eagle |
| - | Ribble Valley |
| - | Port Sunlight Wheelers Club |
| - | Kirkby CC |
| - | Team Haverill |
| - | New Brighton CC |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 1980 | Midlet - Moser |
| 1981 | Ian May |
| Infobox last updated on 6 January 2010 |
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Tony Bell (born 20 June 1958)[1] is a freelance writer and journalist, known for his What's he on column in Cycling Weekly,[2] where he was a columnist between 1994 and 2006.[3] His popularity gained as a CW columnist[4][5] led to engagements as an after-dinner speaker at cycling events.[6][7]
Bell is also a serious reporter with a degree in politics who has reported on race riots, gangland contracts, drugs wars and environmental and social issues in his native Merseyside for The Independent and The Observer.[2] Following a road accident in which several members of Rhyl cycling club were killed, Bell criticized the attitudes of those such as Jeremy Clarkson, whose column in The Sun he considered anti-cyclist, and what he saw as the cynical attitude of motorists. He called for a single organisation to represent cyclists in the UK to avoid such tragedies recurring.[8]
Bell was also professional cyclist.[4] He once held the mountains and points jerseys in the prestigious Mi-Août Bretonne.[2] He is the brother of former National Amateur and Professional Road Race Champion Mark Bell, who died in 2009.
Bell lives in Chester[2] and supplements his income as a bus driver. He is writing an autobiography, provisionally called "Pinball", excerpts of which are on his web site.[9]
References
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