About

Quickrelease.tv is a news site about the world of cycling, and as the TV bit suggests it contains video content, either made by Quickrelease.tv or embedded via YouTube (for lo-res content) or Vimeo (for hi-res content).

The site owner is Carlton Reid, editor of BikeBiz.com and Bikeforall.net and co-author of the new Bike to Work Book.

Carlton Reid has been writing about bicycles and travel for 23 years. He has written for newspapers such as The Guardian and The Independent.

He start writing during an editorial internship on Bicycle Times magazine in 1986. A feature called ‘Off Road Reid’ - an early MTB column - was later transferred to Bicycle Action magazine.

Reid is a member of the British Guild of Travel Writers and the Outdoor Writers Guild. BikeBiz.com, Reid’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, Quickrelease.tv won the ‘best use of blogging’ award in the North East Digital Awards.

Reid was the founder (1997), co-owner and editor/publisher of On Your Bike magazine and website, a general interest full-colour quarterly magazine sold to EMAP Active of Peterborough in December 1999. Reid was also founder of BikeBiz trade magazine and BikeBiz.com, titles sold to Intent Media in 2006.

Reid was the presenter of ‘Chain Gang’ in 1994, a six part TV magazine programme from Tyne Tees/Yorkshire.

Reid is author of Adventure Mountain Biking (Crowood Press, 1990); Complete Book of Cycling (contributor, Hamlyn 1997); I-Spy Bicycles (Michelin 1998); Discover Israel (Berlitz 1998); Lebanon: A Travel Guide (Kindlife 1995, book sold to Pelican USA in 1999); Classic Mountain Bike Routes of the World (contributor, Quarto Publishing, 2000) and Bike to Work Book (Commutebybike.com/Quickrelease.tv, November 2008).

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.

Reid has travelled widely by mountain bike, usually solo, sometimes with Gil Bor, an Israeli mathematician.

Reid 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, Reid was inducted into the MBUK Mountain Bike Hall of Fame, one of the first 20 inductees.

By July 2009, there had been 1.65 million video views of Quickrelease.tv videos on YouTube. The has had 289,000 views. The top video for a client has had . Download the PDF ratecard here.

Carlton is married to Judith, a hospital doctor, and they have three children (9, 11 and 9), all of whom cycle to school. On a , all three children were able to cycle from Scotland to home in Newcastle in just two days.