| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Antony Bell |
| Born | (1958-06-20) 20 June 1958 (age 66) England United Kingdom |
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) |
| Team information | |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Amateur teams | |
| - | Birkenhead Victoria CC |
| - | Birkenhead North End CC |
| - | Prescot Eagle |
| - | Ribble Valley |
| - | Port Sunlight Wheelers Club |
| - | Kirkby CC |
| - | Team Haverill |
| - | New Brighton CC |
| Professional teams | |
| 1980 | Midlet - Moser |
| 1981 | Ian May |
Tony Bell (born 20 June 1958) is a freelance writer and journalist, known for his What's he on column in Cycling Weekly, where he was a columnist between 1994 and 2006. His popularity gained as a CW columnist led to engagements as an after-dinner speaker at cycling events.
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. 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.
Bell was also professional cyclist. He once held the mountains and points jerseys in the prestigious Mi-Août Bretonne. He is the brother of former National Amateur and Professional Road Race Champion Mark Bell, who died in 2009.
Bell lives in Chester and supplements his income as a bus driver. He is writing an autobiography, provisionally called "Pinball", excerpts of which are on his web site.
References
- Tony Bell at Cycling Archives (archived)
- ^ "THE WIRRAL". Cycling Weekly. 30 May 2006. Archived from the original on 14 June 2006.
- "About Tony Bell".
- ^ "Latest Newport Nocturne News". British Cycling. August 2003.
- Brian Cookson (January 2003). "REMEMBERING A PRIZED WIN". British Cycling.
- "Club Dinner". Hull Thursday Road Club.
- "Bell on bikes (speech video)". quickrelease.tv.
- "Perpetual Cycle". 21 January 2006.
- "Tony Bell". Archived from the original on 21 May 2008.